Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments

2017-12-06 Education

Author : Pia Christensen
Release : 2017-12-06
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments by : Pia Christensen

Download or read book Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments written by Pia Christensen. This book was released on 2017-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban living has dramatically changed over the past generation, refashioning children’s relationships with the towns and cities in which they live, and the modes of living within them. Focusing on the global shift in urban planning towards sustainable urbanism - from master planned ‘sustainable communities’, to the green retrofitting of existing urban environments - Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments offers a critical analysis of the challenges, tensions and opportunities for children and young people living in these environments. Drawing upon original data, Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments demonstrates how the needs, interests and participation of children and young people often remain inferior to the design, planning and local politics of new urban communities. Considering children from their crucial role as residents engaging and contributing to the vitalities of their community, to their role as consumers using and understanding sustainable design features, the book critically discusses the prospects of future inclusion of children and young people as a social group in sustainable urbanism. Truly interdisciplinary, Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments forms an original theoretical and empirical contribution to the understanding of the everyday lives of children and young people and will appeal to academics and students in the fields of education, childhood studies, sociology, anthropology, human geography and urban studies, as well as policy-makers, architects, urban planners and other professionals working on sustainable urban designs.

Intersections

2013 Political Science

Author : Kathleen McCormick
Release : 2013
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 823/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Intersections written by Kathleen McCormick. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on worldwide public health data, this report lays out the premise for building healthy places and illuminates the role of the real estate and development community in addressing public health issues. This is an essential resource for public officials, real estate developers, engineers, consultants, and students of urban planning.

Sustainable Built Environment - Volume I

2009-11-10

Author : Fariborz Haghighat
Release : 2009-11-10
Genre :
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Book Rating : 601/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sustainable Built Environment - Volume I written by Fariborz Haghighat. This book was released on 2009-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Built Environment is a component of Encyclopedia of Technology, Information, and Systems Management Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Environmental conservation and technological innovation are two principal forces that drive the building industry toward the future. Technological innovation offers many opportunities to make buildings more dynamic and comfortable, and occupants more comfortable and productive. The necessity of environmental conservation, on the other hand, compels all types of developments and human activities to be environmentally responsive. The content of the Theme on Sustainable Built Environment is organized with state-of-the-art presentations covering several topics: Urban Design ; Emerging Issues in Building Design; Environment, Energy and Health in Housing Design; Culture, Management Strategies, and Policy Issues in the Sustainable Built Environment; Using Technology to Improve the Quality of City Life; Urban and Regional Transportation, which are then expanded into multiple subtopics, each as a chapter. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Environment and Children

2007-08-31 Architecture

Author : Christopher Day
Release : 2007-08-31
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 496/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Environment and Children written by Christopher Day. This book was released on 2007-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the built environment affect children - their health, their behaviour, education and development? To support them, what do we need to consider and what do we need to do? Can our surroundings foster environmental and social awareness and responsibility? Based on Christopher Day's experiences designing schools and early childhood centres in the United States and Britain, this groundbreaking book sets out to answer these questions and to offer solutions. Children all too often find themselves living in alien surroundings designed with the needs of adults in mind, cut off not just from the natural environment but also childhood itself. Society's reaction - to cocoon children from the outside world or to resort to drugs to control behaviour - fails to address the fundamental causes of problems which lie in the environment not the children themselves. One of the world's leading thinkers on the impact of buildings on people, Christopher Day's insights offer new light on one of the most important issues for today's society.

Built Four Kids

2009 Architecture and children

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Release : 2009
Genre : Architecture and children
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Book Rating : 551/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Built Four Kids written by . This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Built for kids highlights how built environments are important to the well-being of children. It provides information to help increase their participation in planning built environments so they respond to their particular wants and needs. It includes a child-friendly indicator framework, as well as case studies, that highlight how children and young people have contributed to the development of the built environment in their community."--P. 6.

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