Sustainable urban development: changing professional practice

This new volume explores how the professions responsible for enhancing the built environment's sustainability seek to deliver this newly-found agenda, offering multi-perspective case studies and discussion to argue for a rethinking of the role of urban development professional. Showing how sustainability is rapidly becoming the norm for practitioners, this book considersánew types of professional knowledge, relationships between planning systems and property development, links between public and private sector organisations, ideas about long term responsibilities and new working practices for engaging with the public. INDICE: Foreword Colin Fudgeá Preface: A European Perspectiveá 1. Introductioná Part 1: Changing Processesá 2. Sustainable Construction and Policy Learning in Europe á3. Urban Sprawl: challenges for European policy integration andcity governanceá 4. Decision-making Processes in Urban Designá 5. SustainableUrban Development and the Professions in the UK á6. Sustainable Communities: Policy, Practice and Professional Development á Part 2: Changing Institutions á7. Sustainable Construction and Urbanism in the Netherlands and the Czech Republicá 8. Institutional Dynamics and Institutional Barriers to Sustainable Construction in France, Great Britain and the Netherlandsá 9. Expertise and Methodology in Building Design for Sustainable Development á10. New Professional Leadership in Franceá 11. Sustainable Building in Italyá 12. Building Operationsand Useá 13. Conclusions

• ISBN: 978-0-415-43822-3
• Editorial: Taylor and Francis
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés