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Creating Self-Sustaining Communities-Reducing the Burdens of Infrastructure, Congestion, and Carbon Emissions
As a global community, we face significant challenges related to reducing our environmental impact, taking a hard look at our development practices and identifying opportunities to reduce pollution, while revitalizing our communities to create safe, attractive and vibrant "people places". Moving forward we must critically consider how we plan, develop and construct not only our buildings, but also our neighborhoods and cities. Sustainability at the building level the first step, but it is merely one piece of the puzzle. Sustainability must start in planning at the community level, requiring a major paradigm shift, and an extension of our commitment to sustainable planning and design. This paper will provide an in-depth look at the model of "cellular" development, incorporating the principles of New Urbanism and sustainable design to create self-sustaining communities. This paper will also identify opportunities related to transit, parking and development to create more walkable, convenient and self-sustaining communities.
Creating Self-Sustaining Communities-Reducing the Burdens of Infrastructure, Congestion, and Carbon Emissions
As a global community, we face significant challenges related to reducing our environmental impact, taking a hard look at our development practices and identifying opportunities to reduce pollution, while revitalizing our communities to create safe, attractive and vibrant "people places". Moving forward we must critically consider how we plan, develop and construct not only our buildings, but also our neighborhoods and cities. Sustainability at the building level the first step, but it is merely one piece of the puzzle. Sustainability must start in planning at the community level, requiring a major paradigm shift, and an extension of our commitment to sustainable planning and design. This paper will provide an in-depth look at the model of "cellular" development, incorporating the principles of New Urbanism and sustainable design to create self-sustaining communities. This paper will also identify opportunities related to transit, parking and development to create more walkable, convenient and self-sustaining communities.
Creating Self-Sustaining Communities-Reducing the Burdens of Infrastructure, Congestion, and Carbon Emissions
Haahs, Timothy (author)
International Conference on Sustainable Design and Construction (ICSDC) 2011 ; 2011 ; Kansas City, Missouri
ICSDC 2011 ; 620-626
2012-01-04
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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