Sustainable urban planning
New Urbanism
New Urbanism is an urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range…
Low-impact development
Low-impact development (LID) has been defined as "development which through its low negative environmental impact either enhances or does not…
Urban horticulture
Horticulture is the science and art of growing fruits and vegetables and also flowers or ornamental plants. Urban horticulture specifically…
Passive solar building system
Passive solar building system is increasingly becoming an independent style of architecture , which is formally in the tradition of…
Passive solar building design
In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy in…
Green building principle
Green building is the systems of construction or establishment of houses, refuges or other constructions, realized with materials of low…
Green building policy
The green building or sustainable construction is the creation, restoration, renovation or rehabilitation of a building by allowing him to…
Green building
Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) refers to both a structure and the application of processes…
Low-energy house
A low-energy house is any type of house that from design, technologies and building products uses less energy, from any…
Urban sprawl trends
Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and…
Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and…
Transit-oriented development
In urban planning, a transit-oriented development (TOD) is a type of urban development that maximizes the amount of residential, business…
Measurement of sustainable development
The terms sustainable development are applied to a developing form of socioeconomic more human. In short, sustainable development is a…
Themes of sustainable development
The sustainable development is a new concept of economic growth, thought immediately with a view to long-term and integrates the…
Domains of sustainable development
Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of…