Bücher der Reihe Sustainable Urban Development Series

Outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. This volume 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.

Showing how sustainability is becoming the norm for practitioners, this book considers various types of professional knowledge, relationships between planning systems and property development, links between public and private sector organisations, ideas about long term responsibilities and various working practices for engaging with the public.

This book examines the models of sustainable development and sets out a framework for analysing urban development and the sustainability issues which can arise.