Positive Development: From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles Through Built Environment Design by Birkeland, Janis

Positive Development: From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles Through Built Environment Design (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781844075782)

Vendor: Janis Birkeland
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Format: Hardcover
$240.00
$240.00
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Positive Development: From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles Through Built Environment Design by Birkeland, Janis

Positive Development: From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles Through Built Environment Design

$240.00
Positive Development: From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles Through Built Environment Design by Birkeland, Janis

Positive Development: From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles Through Built Environment Design

$240.00
Format: Hardcover
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Janis Birkeland presents the innovative new paradigm of 'Positive Development' in which the built environment provides greater life quality, health, amenity and safety for all without sacrificing resources or money. With a different form of design, development itself can become a 'sustainability solution'. A cornerstone of this new paradigm is the eco-retrofitting of the vast urban fabric we already inhabit. The author presents a revolutionary new tool called SmartMode to achieve this end. This book challenges everyone working in or studying the areas of sustainable development, planning, architecture or the built environment to rethink their current ideas and practices.

Author: Janis Birkeland
ISBN-10: 1844075788
ISBN-13: 9781844075782
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2008
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.94d

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Choice 06/01/2009
By Janis Birkeland
By Janis Birkeland
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Janis Birkeland worked consecutively as artist, advocacy planner, architect, urban designer, city planner and attorney in San Francisco before entering academia in Australia. She has authored over 100 publications on built environment and sustainability and wrote the highly successful and widely adopted Design for Sustainability (Earthscan, 2002). She is now Professor of Architecture at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

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