Integrating Sustainable Technology into Built Form

This book will provide urban and landscape designers, and other development related professions, with metrics, rules-of-thumb, and other necessary design guidance to integrate renewable energy technologies and decentralized utility infrastructure into master-planned developments.

The urban planning profession is founded on designing for the future and should include safeguarding access to energy and resources. This book will be an indispensible professional tool and will enable designers to embed sustainability and resiliency within their plans for the built environment. Highly illustrated and accessible, the book will create a methodology based on the tools within an urban planner’s professional repertoire.