Rethinking Professionalism in Europe, Vol. 4

This fourth volume in the series explores how the professions responsible for making the built environment more sustainable are seeking to deliver against this newly-found agenda. The book adds, to the growing debate about sustainable urban development being developed in the series with this title, a multi-perspective discussion and case studies concerned with the "new professionalism' of sustainable approaches to development and design. Arguing that sustainable urban development can no longer be treated as an exception in the rules and regulations that govern planning, or in the design and construction projects that respond to them, the book shows how sustainability is rapidly becoming the norm for practitioners. What is required is a rethinking of exactly what it means to be an urban development professional'including new types of professional knowledge, relationships between planning systems and property development, links between public and private sector organisations, ideas about the long term responsibilities of project promoters, the construction industry and design professions, methods for integrated and collaborative teamwork, and new working practices for engaging with the public.Cooper, Ian is the author of 'Rethinking Professionalism in Europe, Vol. 4', published 2008 under ISBN 9780415438216 and ISBN 0415438217.