I liked BeyondDC’s quip on green architecture: “LEED architecture without good urban design is like cutting down the rainforest using hybrid-powered bulldozers.”
I don’t actually think that’s totally fair since the electricity and heating resource consumption of buildings is a legitimately big deal, but suffice it to say that the current LEED system for rating the sustainability of buildings will be radically incomplete until the Neighborhood Development rating system is done. How buildings relate to each other and to other people in the community is a crucial issue.
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