1st Edition

Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3 The Toolkit for Assessment

Edited By Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin, Stephen Curwell Copyright 2009
304 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision support mechanisms developed for users of the system to guide them in selecting the appropriate assessment methods for a variety of evaluations. This... Read more

1. Introduction Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin, Stephen Curwell  Part 1: The Toolkit  2. The Toolkit for Assessment Andy Hamilton, Steve Curwell, Gordon Mitchell and Philip James  Part 2: Assessment  3. Scenario analysis in spatial impact assessment Francesca Torrieri and Peter Nijkamp  4. Multi-criteria evaluation and planning support: choosing among alternative scenarios Andrea de Montis and Sabrina Lai  5. Mixed and compact land use assessments Ron Vreeker  6. SMARTNET: a system for multi-criteria appraisal of road transport networks Gordon Mitchell and Anil Namdeo  7. The NAR model of land use and buildings Mark Deakin  8. The building passport assessment Andreas Blum  9. The European HQE²R sustainable neighbourhood assessment Andreas Blum, Marcus Grant, Antonella Grossi  10. The REGEN Assessment of the Porta Nuova District's Central Railway Station Patrizia Lombardi  11. Assessment methods underlying the planning and development of Modena City’s CSR Patrizia Lombardi and Stefano Stanghellini  Part 3: Evaluating the Sustainability of Urban Development  12. The search for sustainable communities: ecological integrity, equity and the question of participation Mark Deakin  13. Governing the Sustainable of Urban Development Krassimira Paskaleva-Shapira  14. Conclusions Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin, Stephen Curwell

Biography

Ron Vreeker is Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Mark Deakin is Senior Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at the School of the Built Environment, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.

Stephen Curwell is Professor of Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) at the University of Salford, Manchester, UK.