Presenting a framework to direct research needed to achieve and maintain sustainability, this book will be of considerable help to local authorities and political and government bodies establishing guidelines for planning and monitoring sustainable urban
About the Author, Hildebrand Frey
Hildebrand Frey is a retired senior lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Strathclyde University. He was the founder and Director of the Urban Design Studies Unit and the postgraduate urban design course. In search for sustainable development, he explores ways of improving the form, socio-economic profiles, land use and transport patterns and environmental conditions of cities and city regions.
Paul Yaneske is a physicist and mathematician who has spent a large part of his academic and research career on investigations relevant to sustainability, particularly the scientific principles and management systems that underpin and implement it in the context of the built environment. Currently senior lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Strathclyde University, he has been a partner in an environmental design practice, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and founding director of a research Unit dedicated to sustainability and environmental management.
