CONTENTS Notes on contributors vii Foreword ix Preface x Note on the text xi Acknowledgements xii PART ONE SUSTAINABLE URBAN DESIGN CONCEPTS 1 Introduction 3 ADAM RITCHIE 2 Urban planning and design 12 PATRICK CLARKE 3Transportation 21 ROBERT THORNE, WILLIAM FILMER-SANKEYand ANTHONY ALEXANDER 4 Landscape and nature in the city 31 CHRISTINA VONBORCKE 5 Building design 42 RANDALLTHOMAS and ADAM RITCHIE 6 Energy and information 56 RANDALLTHOMAS and ADAM RITCHIE 7 Materials 74 SARAH ROYSE 8 Water 80 RANDALLTHOMAS and ADAM RITCHIE 9 Waste and resource 86 ADAM RITCHIE 10Summary 92 ADAM RITCHIE PART TWO CASE STUDIES 11Coopers Road Estate: regeneration 97 DAVID TURRENT 12 Parkmount: streetscape and solar design 107 RICHARD PARTTNGTON and ADRIAN HORNSBY 13 Coin Street Housing: the architecture of engagement 117 GRAHAM HAWORTH 14 Sustainable design in an urban context: three case studies 133 ALAN SHORT 15 BedZED: Beddington zero-fossil energy development 142 BILLDUNSTER 16 BoOl and Flagghusen: ecological city districts in Malmo, Sweden 161 EVA DALMAN and CECILIA VON SCHE'ELE 17 Stonebridge: negotiating between traditional and modernist models of city housing 171 CHRIS WATSON 18 'Made in Stockwell' and Deptford Wharves 181 KATIE TONKINSON and ADAM RITCHIE 19 Millennium Water: Vancouver's Olympic Village, Canada 197 RACHEL MOSCOVICH APPENDICES A Solar energy, temperature and photovoltaics 207 B Wind and water 211 C Air quality 213 D Acoustics 215 E Fuel cells, turbines, engines, and their energy sources 216 F Landscapes 219 G Materials 221 Notes 222 Glossary 230 Illustration acknowledgements 232 Index 234