With appropriate planning and design, Olympic urban development has the potential to leave positive environmental legacies to the host city and contribute to environmental sustainability. This book explains how a modern Olympic games can successfully develop a more sustainable design approach by learning from the lessons of the past. Num Pages: 248 pages, 21 black & white tables, 20 black & white halftones, 53 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: RNU; RPC; WSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 189. Weight in Grams: 861. . 2009. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Sustainable Olympic Design and Urban Development
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415467616
ISBN 13: 9780415467612
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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With appropriate planning and design, Olympic urban development has the potential to leave positive environmental legacies to the host city and contribute to environmental sustainability.

This book explains how a modern Olympic games can successfully develop a more sustainable design approach by learning from the lessons of the past and by taking account of the latest developments. It offers an assessment tool that can be tailored to individual circumstances – a tool which emerges from the analysis of previous summer games host cities and from techniques in environmental analysis and assessment.

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