Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature

Douglas Farr, American Architect and Author
(November 5, 2009 at Case Western Reserve University)
American architect Doug Farr, author of the awardwinning book Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature, gave the Richard N. Campen Lecture in Architecture, sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University.
Urban planner and President and CEO of Farr Associates Architecture and Urban Design, Doug Farr has earned his reputation through his ecologically sensitive, sustainable urban constructions. His Chicago-based and award-winning architecture and planning firm has recently been named by the New York Times the "most prominent of the city's growing cadre of ecologically sensitive architects."
Douglas Farr is the founding principal and president of Farr Associates, an award-wining architecture and urban planning firm identified by the New York Times as "the most prominent of the city's cadre of ecologically sensitive architects." Farr Associates holds the unique distinction of being the first in the world to have designed three LEED Platinum buildings. Doug is on the board of the Congress of the New Urbanism, serves on the BioRegional Development Group board of directors, and was the founding chair of the LEED for Neighborhood Development project.

[@richardspringer55]

Great seminar, would love to see if there's any cities applying these methods on a large scale.

[@spweasel]

Great presentation.

[@omarmasood007]

Thought Full seminar on finding ways and means to explore the dimensions of sustainable architectural design & development ! i am so much keen to study comprehensive sustainable earth architecture with refrence to the socio - cultural perspective and to explore the all sorts of construction material and their innovative use as design - functionality and sutainability as well .

[@robkuijer9273]

a decade behind on Europe? Half a century comes closer. In 1955 the Netherlands claimed 375 square mile from the sea. The city of Almere is most certainly always walkable.
And on top of that they also have a large network of bicycle roads. (as does the rest of the country)
Its strikes me as odd that you would consider a neighborhood retailer within 5 minutes of walking. But not one within 10 minutes of cycling.
Oh and the new railway station of Utrecht will include 35,000 bike parking spaces