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Communities all over the world are struggling to build effective strategies to address their key challenges, from climate change and equity to housing and revitalization. In response, the Communities by Design program brings together architects and other professional disciplines to work alongside the residents, professionals and institutions of host communities on key local issues. Every project is community-driven and includes meaningful public participation in an intensive process to match professional expertise with public values and aspirations for a place. 

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Sustainable Urban Design Handbook - New Resource

  • 1.  Sustainable Urban Design Handbook - New Resource

    Posted 20 days ago

    Wanted to share that we just published the Sustainable Urban Design Handbook - Hoping this is a helpful resource for urban designers, architects, landscape architects, planners, elected officials, and community stakeholders.  The book organizes more than 50 urban design elements critical to sustainability in a way that is easy to understand. It combines latest research and professional best practices, and we worked hard to make it graphically rich with hundreds of images, diagrams, and examples from across the globe. Hoping it will be helpful as a design tool, evaluation tool, and as a stakeholder engagement tool.  I have talked with many people on this list about this approach and book project for years - so happy it is finally out and available.  

    You can see the organizing framework and excerpts here: Sustainable Urban Design Framework (framework is also copied below) and can find the book itself here: The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook.  Would love to hear any feedback about this work - always looking at how to improve it and make it more usable.  

    Best,
    -Nico

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    The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook
    Amazon.com: The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook: 9781138945692: Larco, Nico, Knudson, Kaarin: Books
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    Nicolas Larco, AIA
    Professor in Architecture and Urban Design
    Director of the Urbanism Next Center
    University of Oregon
    Portland OR
    nlarco@uoregon.edu
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