Avoiding Negative Impacts from Urban Morphology

Abstract

A design decision support model must not only account for elements of urban form that help to reduce per-capita GHG emissions, it must also account for elements of urban form that work to increase those emissions. This chapter examines the case study of a very prevalent urban design model, the so-called “neighbourhood unit”, and evaluates its impact on urban form as well as emissions.

Keywords

• Urban Morphology
• urban design model
• neighbourhood unit
• urban form