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Overview
This valuable resource for developers and designers will help to develop design solutions sympathetic to the environment and improve the sustainability of residential landscapes.
The landscapes around housing have a crucial role in creating a more sustainable future with carbon-neutral homes. This book shows how to improve the sustainable profile of new residential developments through landscape planning, design and management - by conserving resources and minimising pollution, and by enhancing ecological diversity. This may be achieved without significant additional capital outlay.
The residential landscape sustainability checklist gives housing developers, landscape architects, architects and planners a tool with which to assess the environmental implication of their schemes throughout the design process - from site planning to detailed design.
The checklist focuses on residential housing developments but many features of the tool - including improving energy efficiency, materials selection, planting design and management - can also be applied to a wide range of different types of development, from school grounds to retail parks.
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Synopsis
This valuable resource for developers and designers will help to develop design solutions sympathetic to the environment and improve the sustainability of residential landscapes.
The landscapes around housing have a crucial role in creating a more sustainable future with carbon-neutral homes. This book shows how to improve the sustainable profile of new residential developments through landscape planning, design and management - by conserving resources and minimising pollution, and by enhancing ecological diversity. This may be achieved without significant additional capital outlay.
The residential landscape sustainability checklist gives housing developers, landscape architects, architects and planners a tool with which to assess the environmental implication of their schemes throughout the design process - from site planning to detailed design.
The checklist focuses on residential housing developments but many features of the tool - including improving energy efficiency, materials selection, planting design and management - can also be applied to a wide range of different types of development, from school grounds to retail parks.
Also of interest
The Green Guide: BREEAM specification
Fourth Edition
Jane Anderson and David Shiers
1 4051 1961 6
978 14051 1961 0
Sustainable Development Policy Directory
W. Alan Strong and Lesley Hemphill
1 4051 2150 5
978 14051 2150 7
Evaluating Sustainable Development
Peter Brandon and Patrizia Lombardi
0 6320 6486 2
978 06320 6486 1
Cover design by Andy Love
Editorials
From the Publisher
"It is an ideal tool for anyone who needs quick access to information on a topic which becoming increasingly important in both political and practical terms." Building Engineer
"Residential Landscape Sustainability provides a rationale and a possible method for promoting evaluation of sustainable landscapes and contains both integrative thinking and hard details on this topic... [It] is a serious attempt to reflect on and improve sustainable practice." Landscape Architecture Magazine
“Compiles diverse material into a single accessible volume, providing an amazing resource for Arkansas homeowners and design professionals alike." At Home in Arkansas