Sustainable Urban Design Framework

Nico Larco, AIA
University of Oregon
nlarco@uoregon.edu

The Sustainable Urban Design Framework is a comprehensive approach to addressing sustainability issues that helps simplify a complex field. It brings together topics from architecture, planning, landscape, development, ecology, and many other fields, and organizes them by outcome goals and design scales. The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook is based on this framework and has a chapter dedicated to each of the elements in the framework – bringing together and synthesizing the latest research and professional best practices in an easy-to-understand, graphically rich, and rigorous guide.

The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook is available from Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Sustainable-Urban-Design-Handbook/dp/1138945692) and Routledge (https://www.routledge.com/The-Sustainable-Urban-Design-Handbook/Larco-Knudson/p/book/9781138945692). See below for the framework, sample chapters from the handbook, and the original article on the framework published in the Journal of Urban Design.

Organizing Sustainable Urban Design Framework:

Matrix – Sustainable Urban Design Framework – Larco