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A vision of suburban sustainability: the Long Island Radically Rezoned project

T. Holler and A. Serra,     New York Institute of Technology, USA; Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, USA

Abstract:

Discussions of metropolitan sustainability to date have focused largely on the impacts of the building industry and its energy consumption. A refocus is needed to look not only at energy, but instead at all global resources, in terms of both demand and availability. When seeking to achieve the balance of supply and demand that is implied by a state of ‘sustainability’, limitations are often imposed by the boundaries of a project. For example, political, administrative and proprietary boundaries and the restrictions they impose limit the way in ...

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