Sustainable Urban Design: A Comprehensive Approach (September 2024)

Sustainability at the urban design scale has garnered increasing interest over the past few decades but remains a complicated area of work and a largely fragmented field without a unified approach.

In response to this challenge, Nico Larco will present the Sustainable Urban Design Framework, a new, comprehensive approach to sustainable urban design built from current research and best practices from across the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, development, ecology and environmental engineering. The framework organizes over 50 specific urban design elements in relation to five sustainability-focused outcomes and four scales of intervention.

The Sustainable Urban Design Framework is the focus of the recently published Sustainable Urban Design Handbook, a graphically rich and easy to use resource for designers, planners, developers, elected officials and community stakeholders.

About the speaker
Nico Larco is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon. He is also the Director of the Urbanism Next Center and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Sustainable Cities Initiative, a nationally and internationally awarded, multidisciplinary organization that focuses on sustainability issues as they relate to the built environment. Professor Larco’s research focus includes sustainable urban design and the impacts of emerging technology on cities.

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