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In Green Dimensions, Cliff Moughtin relates sustainable development and
green design to the realm of urban design and development. Examining
regional and local frameworks for design and planning, this book shows
how sustainable urban design can be implemented on every scale.
The first volume
outlined the meaning and role played by the main elements of urban design;
discussing, in particular, the form and function of street and square. The
second volume dealt in more detail with the ways
in which the elements of the
public realm are decorated. It outlined the general principles for the
embellishment of floor plane;
The walls of streets
and squares, corners, roofline, roofscape and skyline, corners; together with a
discussion of the design and distribution of the three-dimensional ornaments
that are placed in streets and squares. The present book aims to relate the
main components of urban design to a general theory of urban structuring,
paying particular attention to the city and its form, the urban quarter or
district and the street block or insulae.
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This book, like the
previous volumes, explores the lessons for urban design which can be learnt
from the past. However, like Urban Design: Street and Square and
Urban Design: Ornament and Decoration this
book does not advocate a process of simply copying from the past: it is not an
apologia nor a support for wholesale pastiche in the public realm. The book
attempts to come to terms with the logic of sustainable development and then to
formulate principles of urban design based upon the acceptance of this
particular environmental code.
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