Urban Areas As Playgrounds: Environment Cities & LEED's Role - Part One
Part One: Why LEED-ND should exist, some background. Cities are efficient structures in organizing people's well-being.If you do have ten minutes to give, I urge you to watch the video in which Professor Mark Pagel credits cities as being catalysts of innovation and prosperity of human civilization. He lauds their energy and material efficiency: "if you broke up London into...towns with equal population, it would contribute considerably more pollution...cities ccc green centers of humanity."
However, this efficiency of theirs would not be enough. These next items infographic indicates, according to Town limits - a London resource use report, London's ecological footprint - in blue - versus its actual size - that tiny pink dot in the middle. The yellow shows its projected increase with current population influx trends. London's ecological footprint is 293 times its size - nearing how large Spain.
Alongside this, what some may call absurd, resource use, other detriments include, what Pagel calls social collapse. The London riots over summer are a fantastic example. It is when city conditions lead to a breakdown of social structure due to its inhabitants updated unhealthy city environments; when neighbourhoods get "bad". Cities, being innovation centres, have historically tackled physical issue such as walls for defence against invaders and municipal sewer systems to decrease the propogation of water-borne diseases. However in our age, issues have moved away from a physical to a more social nature.
The issue of our age in urbanism seems to be one of creating an acceptable living space: not only physically but also psychologically and socially. To develop "good" neighbourhoods. Neighbourhoods that not only sustainably manage resources, but create a livable, and healthy, space for its inhabitants and users. The protocol of LEED-Neighbourhood Development (LEED-ND) exemplifies this, and attempts to produce a model for "healthy" neighbourhood development.
(To Be Continued) Part Two: Where LEED-ND got its roots - New Urbanism - along with its basic parameters
However, this efficiency of theirs would not be enough. These next items infographic indicates, according to Town limits - a London resource use report, London's ecological footprint - in blue - versus its actual size - that tiny pink dot in the middle. The yellow shows its projected increase with current population influx trends. London's ecological footprint is 293 times its size - nearing how large Spain.
Alongside this, what some may call absurd, resource use, other detriments include, what Pagel calls social collapse. The London riots over summer are a fantastic example. It is when city conditions lead to a breakdown of social structure due to its inhabitants updated unhealthy city environments; when neighbourhoods get "bad". Cities, being innovation centres, have historically tackled physical issue such as walls for defence against invaders and municipal sewer systems to decrease the propogation of water-borne diseases. However in our age, issues have moved away from a physical to a more social nature.
The issue of our age in urbanism seems to be one of creating an acceptable living space: not only physically but also psychologically and socially. To develop "good" neighbourhoods. Neighbourhoods that not only sustainably manage resources, but create a livable, and healthy, space for its inhabitants and users. The protocol of LEED-Neighbourhood Development (LEED-ND) exemplifies this, and attempts to produce a model for "healthy" neighbourhood development.
(To Be Continued) Part Two: Where LEED-ND got its roots - New Urbanism - along with its basic parameters
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