Present and Future Challenges
Contemporary social, economic, and environmental challenges that affect the built environment require an innovative approach when planning cities. This means that current practices must change, yet, it is vital that these changes be understood as an evolu
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Fundamentals of Sustainable Urban Design
Fundamentals of Sustainable Urban Design
Avi Friedman
Fundamentals of Sustainable Urban Design
Avi Friedman McGill University School of Architecture Montreal, QC, Canada
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Preface
Fundamental global and local social changes bring about a need to rethink urban design strategies and align them along sustainable principles. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands of innovation. The need for a new outlook is propelled by environmental, social, and economic transformations in large and small communities. The depletion of nonrenewable natural resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change are a few of the environmental challenges. They force urban designers to reconsider conceptual approaches in favor of ones that promote a better suitability between communities and nature. Consideration of overall planning concepts that minimize a development’s carbon footprint by including district heating, considering passive solar gain, promoting local renewable energy production, and preserving the site’s natural assets are some strategies that architects and builders are integrating into their thought process and practice. Social challenges are also drawing the attention of key stockholders. As the “baby-boom” generation is retiring, accommodating elderly populations in cities and homes is taking priority. Walkable communities, aging in place, and multigenerational living are some of the concepts considered. In addition, live-work environments
