Residential Landscape Sustainability. A Checklist Tool
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Author(s): C. Smith, A. Clayden and N. Dunnett
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 9781405158732
Format: hardback
197pp
Price: £49.50
Review Date: 10 December 2007
Review: The UK government are driving to create over 4 million homes by 2020. The landscape has the potential to reduce the energy demands of a building by sheltering it from cold winds in the winter or by creating shade in the summer. The design of outdoor spaces can also have a significant bearing on how we live. This book aims to inform housing developers, landscape architects, planners etc. on how to create a more sustainable environment. It focuses on developing a residential landscape checklist that can be used to score the environmental performance of a residential landscape. The book begins by laying out the definition of sustainability as it is framed within planning and government guidance. It goes on to identify opportunities for improving the sustainable profile of new residential developments through landscape planning, design and management. Of the selection of assessment tools examined, the Ecohomes assessment tool was adopted as the template on which to develop the landscape checklist. The last chapter looks at how the Residential Landscape Sustainability Checklist was piloted and used to assess the sustainability of residential landscapes, focusing on two cases: Greenwich Millennium Village and Childwall, London.