Australian Book Launch: Climate Design by AECOM and Professor Peter Droege
Source: AECOM - www.aecom.com
24 May 2010
How will new approaches to design and planning mitigate the effects of climate change and adapt to its already inevitable impacts?
Edited by global design and engineering company AECOM, in collaboration with Peter Droege, Climate Design is a rich volume for designers, architects, planners, policy makers and academics alike.
An initiative of AECOM's Design + Planning practice, Climate Design showcases the firm's deepening innovation in climate change mitigation and low carbon development. It explores the current paradigm shift and illustrates how new thinking can convert investments in urban infrastructure, land use and development into resilient and enduring support systems for human and environmental prosperity. According to Professor Droege, Climate Design brings together powerful new practices and innovative thinking in areas such as urban planning and landscape design, soils and water engineering, energy and transport infrastructure and socio-economic change.
“Uninformed design and planning choices contribute to the climate conundrum in direct ways – by perpetuating inefficiency and fossil fuel dependence and by missing a myriad of choices that could lower destructive levels of resource consumption and help sustain the resilience of planetary ecosystems,” said Professor Droege.
“Climate Design presents practice and ideas that go beyond sustainability – they address the very question of survivability.”
AECOM Principal Mark Fuller said Climate Design features living projects and the beliefs and ideas of a wide range of professionals from around the world, including Australia’s Professor Tony Wong, Professor Richard Weller, Jose Mantilla, Lester Partridge, Jason Veale, Cathryn Chatburn, Ichsani Wheeler, James Rosenwax and Jon Shinkfield.
“Climate Design reflects on AECOM’s rich history of design and planning excellence and looks to an inspired future,” said Mr Fuller.
Climate Design is currently being launched at various AECOM events throughout Australia and is available to purchase through Amazon for US$40.