Sustainable Design for the Built Environment

<p><i>Sustainable Design for the Built Environment</i> marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment. This groundbreaking and transformative textbook introduces sustainable design in a clear concise easy-to-read format.</p><p>This new edition includes fully updated exercises and online resources an increased focus on diversity equity and inclusion in design more international examples perspectives and approaches enhanced full colour visuals and additional resources for further study. The book takes the reader deep into the foundations of sustainable design and creates a holistic and integrative approach addressing the social cultural ecological and aesthetic aspects in addition to the typical performance-driven goals. The first section of this book is thematically structured around the origins principles and frameworks of sustainable design aimed at inspiring a deeper broader and more inclusive view of sustainability. The second section examines strategies such as biophilia and biomimicry adaptation and resilience and health and well-being including recent developments following the COVID-19 pandemic. The third section examines the application of sustainability principles from the global urban district and site building and human scales illustrating how a systems thinking approach allows sustainable design to span varied contexts and multiple scales.</p><p>This textbook is intended to inspire a new vision for the future that unites human activity with natural processes to form a regenerative coevolutionary model for sustainable design. Supported by additional resources including additional reading for each chapter and classroom assignments this book will be essential reading for students of sustainability and sustainable design.</p>