Dr. Ken Yeang's latest book on eco masterplanning is now available.

Eco Masterplanning
by Dr. Ken Yeang
ISBN: 978-0-470-74853-4
Hardcover
First Edition: 2009
256 pages
Publisher:  John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Overview:
Architect and ecodesigner, Ken Yeang offers insight into his state-of-the-art approach to masterplanning based on environmental principles in his new book Ecomasterplanning.  Looking at the basis for the design of masterplans for ecodistricts and ecocities, Ken Yeang outlines key design considerations including ecology, sustainable utilities engineering, water management and our human communities and their regulatory systems.
Yeang advocates the systemic biointegration of four infrastructures:
• The grey as the armature for eco-engineering systems
• The blue as the water metabolism of the site and its overall water management
• The red as our human spaces, hardscapes and regulatory systems
• The green as ‘nature’s utilities’ – to form a vital ecological infrastructure that is also crucially connected to the ecological systems in the site’s hinterland.

Yeang argues that this ‘ecoinfrastructure’, as a network of green linking corridors and spaces within a masterplan, not only preserves the natural environment but actively encourages it to thrive. It enables the repairing of ecosystem fragmentation and the creation of a larger habitat for the sharing of resources.  Without this visible green aspect that works to offset CO2 emissions, Yeang claims masterplanning remains nothing more than clever eco-engineering, greened with scattered patches of landscape and roof gardens, rather than the “ecoinfrastructure” he himself advocates.

Click on the following links to order your copy

https://www.bcbookshop.co.uk/book.php?id=140852
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470697296.html