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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"LEED-ND"”.
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Old standbys, new standards : evaluating LEED-ND through existing models of green urbanism
… Council, the Congress for the New Urbanism, and the Natural Resources Defense Council are currently developing a rating system aimed at evaluating the environmental sustainability of new neighborhood developments. The system, known as LEEDND (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for …
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Green Neighborhood Standards from a Planning Perspective: A LEED for Neighborhood Deelopment (LEED-ND) Case Study
This study examines the LEED-ND pilot rating program created by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), the Congress for New Urbanism, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 2007. The rating system is evaluated based on its application as a broad set of national standards …
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Visual Quality Integerated Cost Model For Developing Green Neighborhoods: An Optimization Approach
… potentials for enhancing the economic return and the sustainability of neighborhood developments is the visual quality. This is determined mainly by the maximizing the access to favorable views and minimizing the visual impact values. Furthermore, improving the visual quality will have a direct …
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Urban facilities management as a systemic process to achieve urban sustainability in South Africa
… increased popularity amongst urban planners and developers over the past decade. This study investigates the efficacy and applicability of this approach to urban sustainability, particularly within the "developing country"context of South Africa. Furthermore, the paper suggests that the …
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Can sustainability be local? : an examination of neighborhood sustainability assessment in Denver, Colorado
… built environment is global, governments and nonprofits working to advance sustainability are increasingly turning to the neighborhood scale (Luederitz, Lang, and von Wehrden 2013). This attention to the neighborhood has been accompanied by a corresponding increase in Neighborhood …