Sustainable Retail Development: New Success Strategies

Sustainable Retail Development: New Success Strategies

2009 | 215 Pages | PDF | 7 MB

Sustainable Retail Development, addresses the emerging issue of green retail buildings and retail development that will grow significantly in importance over the next half-decade, a trend seen throughout the developed world. 

This volume is a practical and comprehensive guide to greening retail real estate, including green building and marketing strategies, corporate sustainability programs and features a 10-point “action program” for greening any retail real estate portfolio.

Sustainable Retail Development, should be essential reading for professionals in design, construction and operations of shopping centers and retail stores. Well illustrated, this volume features over 30 green retail developments from North America, Europe, South America, Asia and Australia, as well as interviews with 25 leading industry experts.

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Urban Planning Today: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader

Urban Planning Today: 

A Harvard Design Magazine Reader

2006 | PDF | 160 pages | 11 mb

American cities' penchants for single-use zoning and free-market development in pursuit of economic growth have produced problems that have long been recognized: grueling commutes and dependency on automobiles, social isolation, expensive public infrastructure, needless destruction of countryside. Eminent domain disputes rage on, despite recent Supreme Court decisions. Outdated public housing and failed single-function projects litter the landscape. Addressing these urgent problems and debating the public's role in urban planning, the contributors to Urban Planning Today report on real projects in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, Omaha, Portland, and Vancouver. They bring varying, and sometimes divergent, perspectives from backgrounds in urban design and development, city and regional planning, criticism, and law to bear on the mixed bag of results observed in these cities.

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Environment and Children: Passive Lessons from the Everyday Environment

Environment and Children: 

Passive Lessons from the Everyday Environment

313 pages | PDF | 5,5 MB

How does the built environment affect children - their health, their behaviour, education and development? To support them, what do we need to consider and what do we need to do? Can our surroundings foster environmental and social awareness and responsibility?

Based on Christopher Day's experiences designing schools and early childhood centres in the United States and Britain, this groundbreaking book sets out to answer these questions and to offer solutions.

Children all too often find themselves living in alien surroundings designed with the needs of adults in mind, cut off not just from the natural environment but also childhood itself. Society's reaction - to cocoon children from the outside world or to resort to drugs to control behaviour - fails to address the fundamental causes of problems which lie in the environment not the children themselves.

One of the world's leading thinkers on the impact of buildings on people .

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Site Planning and Design Handbook

Site Planning and Design Handbook

2sd Edition 

528 pages | PDF | 16,7 MB

Essential site planning and design strategies, up-to-date with the latest sustainable development techniques

Discover how to incorporate sound environmental considerations into traditional site design processes.

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Site Planning and Design Handbook

Site Planning and Design Handbook

2sd Edition

2009 |  528 pages | PDF | 16,7 MB

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Infrastructure : Rebuilding, Repairing and Restructing

Infrastructure : 

Rebuilding, Repairing and Restructing

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Infrastructure : Rebuilding, Repairing and Restructing

Infrastructure : Rebuilding, Repairing and Restructing

Jason R. Baren

There are various definitions of what constitutes infrastructure, but generally infrastructure refers to the large-scale public systems, services, and facilities of a country or region that are necessary for economic activity. The sector tends to be separated into two broad subsets - economic and social. Economic infrastructure includes highways, water and sewerage facilities, and energy distribution and telecommunication networks whereas social infrastructure encompasses schools, universities, hospitals, public housing and prisons.

Infrastructure assets are generally characterised by high development costs (high barriers to entry) and long lives. They are generally managed and financed on a long-term basis. Historically it was seen as the role of the government to fund and manage these assets for the good of the population. Today, the role of the government as the provider of public services is increasingly being questioned both in terms of the absolute cost to taxpayers and as to whether a government can deliver the assets as efficiently as a private company competing for the privilege. From the government's perspective there is a strong case for privatisation, where the debt raised by the private partner remains on their balance sheets, not on that of the Treasury's. These factors have resulted in a gradual migration from the public provision of infrastructure to the private sector. The private provision of these assets may take many forms from joint ventures, concessions and franchises through to straight delivery contracts. Essentially the private sector is being brought in to design, build, finance and/or maintain public sector assets in return for long term contracted payments from the government or access to the revenues generated from the asset.

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Environment and Children : Passive Lessons from the Everyday Environment

Environment and Children : Passive Lessons from the Everyday Environment

Christopher Day
Architectural Press | English | October 2007 | 313 pages | PDF | 5,5 MB

How does the built environment affect children - their health, their behaviour, education and development? To support them, what do we need to consider and what do we need to do? Can our surroundings foster environmental and social awareness and responsibility?
Based on Christopher Day's experiences designing schools and early childhood centres in the United States and Britain, this groundbreaking book sets out to answer these questions and to offer solutions.
Children all too often find themselves living in alien surroundings designed with the needs of adults in mind, cut off not just from the natural environment but also childhood itself. Society's reaction - to cocoon children from the outside world or to resort to drugs to control behaviour - fails to address the fundamental causes of problems which lie in the environment not the children themselves.
One of the world's leading thinkers on the impact of buildings on people, Christopher Day's insights offer new light on one of the most important issues for today's society.

Some of the highlighted fetures of this book :
• Groundbreaking study of the impact of the built environment on children's health and behaviour
• What our surroundings teach our children
• Designing environments that nourish imagination and creativity

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Site Planning and Design Handbook

"Site Planning and Design Handbook, 2 Edition"
Thomas Russ,
M.g.H | 2009 |  528 pages | PDF | 16,7 MB

 Essential site planning and design strategies, up-to-date with the latest sustainable development techniques

Discover how to incorporate sound environmental considerations into traditional site design processes. Written by a licensed landscape architect with more than 20 years of professional experience, this authoritative guide combines established approaches to site planning with sustainable practices and increased environmental sensitivity.

Fully revised and updated, Site Planning and Design Handbook, Second Edition discusses the latest standards and protocols-including LEED. The book features expanded coverage of green site design topics such as water conservation, energy efficiency, green building materials, site infrastructure, and brownfield restoration. This comprehensive resource addresses the challenges associated with site planning and design and lays the groundwork for success.

Site Planning and Design Handbook, Second Edition explains how to:

• •Integrate sustainability into site design
• •Gather site data and perform site analysis
• •Meet community standards and expectations
• •Plan for pedestrians, traffic, parking, and open space
• •Use grading techniques to minimize erosion and maximize site stability
• •Implement low-impact stormwater management and sewage disposal methods
• •Manage brownfield redevelopment
• •Apply landscape ecology principles to site design
• •Preserve historic landscapes and effectively utilize vegetation

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Design for Water

Design for Water : Rainwater Harvesting, Stormwater Catchment, and Alternate Water Reuse
New Society Publishers; 1 edition | June 1, 2007 | 240 pages | PDF | 15.8 Mb

In an era of dwindling resources, water is poised to become the new oil. The entire world now faces the reality of a decreasing supply of clean water. To avert a devastating shortage, we must not only look at alternate water sources for existing structures but must plan our new developments differently.

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