Sustainable urban design: principles to practice

The Situationist Urban Design; Rules and Principles

From a general perspective, urbanism can be assumed as a bipolar world. On one hand, large-scale plans formulated by official organizations are shaping urban environment and the entirety of our cities; on the other hand, social activists and artists, active in the field of cities, are making an effort to give it a human character. According to De Certo (1984), the first approach to city, adopte...

‘Best Practice’ Partnership for Sustainable Urban Tourism

Integration or Segregation – Recommendations of the Principles of Urban Road Network Design for the Sustainable City

The study is a review of literature related to the current international debate about the principles of road and transport network design in urban areas (Nielsen 2006). This includes a discussion of urbanists’ critique of the conventional approach in the tradition of the famous Buchanan report (Traffic in Towns 1963) and of the influential Scandinavian traffic safety principles of SCAFT (1967) ...

Sustainable Urban Design and Walkable Neighborhoods

Sustainable Community Development and Urban Design