Urban Form and Locality - by Hugh Barton.
Age plus adaptivity is what makes a building come to be loved. The building learns from its occupants, and they learn from it quotes Barton.
This is what I believe to be sustainability at its simplest. A building must be adaptive, for not only the occupants in which it is initially designed for, but for its future occupants and with that, future endeavours.
Barton explains that the key to a sustainable city is mixed use, and in this context it means a balance of population, jobs and services within a township. The future of brisbane CBD could promote this, integrated with a well connected public transportation system.
This study convincingly shows that mixed use (and in Brisbane CBD's instance, higher vertical density) increases the viability of public transport and permits multi-purpose trips as people walk between work, shop and leisure activities.
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