domingo, 25 de maio de 2014

Evaluating Sustainability

Many ways of evaluate sustainability in projects are easily available and can help architects, designers, urban planners and developers - for example - to check their projects. Some are more easy to use than others, but in all cases the three pillars of sustainability - environmental, economic, social - are required in the analysis.
But more important than any scale is the question 'is this project demanding more than it can offer?' A simple question with a hard answer. The complexity of environmental impacts needs to be considered and studied in every project, as well as the social and economic impacts, and the key for a successful project is obviously the consideration of each one of these topics.




Source: Haas, T (ed.) 2012, Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond - Rethinking Cities for the Future, Rizzoli, New York.

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