Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3: The Toolkit for Assessment / Edition 1

by Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin, Stephen Curwell

Overview

The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision support mechanisms developed for users of the system to guide them in selecting the appropriate assessment methods for a variety of evaluations.

This book provides case studies drawn from locations across Europe, and also provides best practice examples demonstrating those protocols that planners, property developers and design and construction professionals have followed, and how they have selected the assessment methods they need to best evaluate the sustainability of cities, districts, neighbourhoods and buildings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415322195
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/12/2008
Series:	Sustainable Urban Development Series
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 2.30(d)

About the Author

Ron Vreeker is Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Mark Deakin is Senior Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at the School of the Built Environment, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.

Stephen Curwell is Professor of Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) at the University of Salford, Manchester, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part 1: The Toolkit 2. The Toolkit for Assessment Part 2: Assessment 3. Scenario Analysis in Spatial Impact Assessment 4. Multi-Criteria Evaluation and Planning Support: Choosing Among Alternative Scenarios 5. Mixed and Compact Land Use Assessments 6. SMARTNET: A System for Multi-Criteria Appraisal of Road Transport Networks 7. The NAR Model of Land Use and Buildings 8. The Building Passport Assessment 9. The European HQE²R Sustainable Neighbourhood Assessment 10. The REGEN Assessment of the Porta Nuova District's Central Railway Station 11. Assessment Methods Underlying the Planning and Development of Modena City’s CSR Part 3: Evaluating the Sustainability of Urban Development 12. The Search for Sustainable Communities: Ecological Integrity, Equity and the Question of Participation 13. Governing the Sustainable of Urban Development 14. Conclusions