The Green Urban Design Studio Handbook

The Urban Design Studio Handbook provides design students, practitioners, and policymakers with clear, concise strategies they can use to craft more sustainable urban design solutions for their communities. It provides specific, measurable solutions that can be applied to studio projects and professional projects with measurements, diagrams and case study examples that readers can integrate into the schematic design phase of a project. The book covers urban design strategies that contribute to environmental sustainability in three broad areas: energy efficiency, land conservation, and walkability. In the handbook urban design strategies that support these three sustainability areas fall into four interrelated realms: 1) the planning of districts; 2) the layout of streets; 3) the integration of landscape elements; 4) the design of buildings. Readers of the handbook will be able to clearly see, understand, analyse, and apply strategies within each of these realms to their own work as students and as practitioners. Each chapter is supported by a range of succesful international case studies, discussion questions, design exercises and anannotated bibliography providing further resources. The Urban Design Studio Handbook provides practical guidance to urban designers, architects, planners, landscape architects, and students who are interested in improving the environmental performance of urban environments.