Sustainable site design consideration for hilly development in conservation of environment (residential development) / Nurullaini Abu Bakar

• Main Author: Abu Bakar, Nurullaini
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; City planning. Regional planning
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/40617/1/40617.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/40617/

Land development involves disturbing the existing condition of a site favor of a different conditions, and the disturbance is usually directed by a design, from all appearances the range of what is good design appears to vary as much as the character of the sites being developed. Increasing concerns with sustainable site development will compel design professionals to give greater consideration to retained that function to the degree it is possible. Concern for the environmental and natural function of a sites may have a higher functional quality than severely impacted former industrial sites: however, it is not usual to find existing important functional elements even on environmentally compromised urban sites.