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Demonstrating How Urban Morphology Matters: Reaching Beyond the Geometry of Building Design, Construction Systems and Occupational Behaviours and Towards Broader Context-Specific Transformations.

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Deakin, M., Reid, A., & Campbell, F. H. (2013)
Demonstrating How Urban Morphology Matters: Reaching Beyond the Geometry of Building Design, Construction Systems and Occupational Behaviours and Towards Broader Context-Specific Transformations. Environmental management and sustainable development, 2, 101. https://doi.org/10.5296/emsd.v2i2.4307
Recent studies of urban morphology, suggest the design, layout and texture of district centres, neighbourhoods and buildings have as much a bearing on levels of energy consump...

Developing sustainable communities in Edinburgh’s South East Wedge: The settlement model and design solution.

Journal Article
Deakin, M. (2003)
Developing sustainable communities in Edinburgh’s South East Wedge: The settlement model and design solution. Journal of Urban Design. 8, 137-148. doi:10.1080/13574800306481. ISSN 1357-4809
Sustainable communities are seen as offering the opportunity to manage growth in plan-led and environmentally friendly patterns of settlement. The settlement model put forward...

Sustainable urban development: the framework and directory of assessment methods.

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Deakin, M., Curwell, S. & Lombardi, P. (2002)
Sustainable urban development: the framework and directory of assessment methods. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management. 4, 171-197. doi:10.1142/S1464333202000978. ISSN 1464-3332
Sustainable development is an issue that has attracted a considerable amount of academic interest since the publication of the Brundtland Report. With Agenda 21, it is an issu...

A vision and methodology for integrated sustainable urban development.

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Bentivegna, V., Curwell, S., Deakin, M., Lombardi, P., Mitchell, G. & Nijkamp, P. (2002)
A vision and methodology for integrated sustainable urban development. Building Research and Information. 30, 83-94. doi:10.1080/096132102753436468. ISSN 0961-3218
The concepts and visions of sustainable development that have emerged in the post-Brundtland era are explored in terms laying the foundations for a common vision of sustainabl...

The assessment of sustainable urban development.

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Deakin, M., Huovila, P., Rao, S., Sunikka, M. & Vreeker, R. (2002)
The assessment of sustainable urban development. Building Research and Information. 30, 95-108. doi:10.1080/096132102753436477. ISSN 0961-3218
This paper describes the outcomes of a survey of assessment methods for sustainable urban development (SUD) undertaken by an international network called BEQUEST. It addresses...