Light Imprint: Integration Sustainability and Community Design
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Published by Tom Low, AIA AICP LEED CNU NCARB Director of Architecture, Urban Design, and Infrastructure
Location: Charlotte, United States
Description
Integrating green infrastructure with community design through LIGHT IMPRINT
Identifying a disconnect between walkable urban design and green infrastructure, Tom Low introduced the Light Imprint Initiative at an Open Space Workshop in conjunction with the Congress of the New Urbanism held in Philadelphia in 2007. Light Imprint is a New Urbanist planning design approach that includes a tool box of techniques to manage stormwater and natural drainage. Interest generated at that workshop grew exponentially. Tom Low began creating Light Imprint overlays for projects in the planning and construction stages. He assembled and led a team of experts to publish a limited edition of the first Light Imprint Handbook in 2007. Following an intensive four-month period of international peer review of the Handbook and the associated web site, the Light Imprint team gathered again in August 2008 to edit and compile version 1.3 of the latest published Light Imprint Handbook: Integrating Sustainability and Community Design. Light Imprint has grown and has had a ripple affect across the urban design, engineering, planning, environmental, green infrastructure and storm water management industries. Tom continues to lectures and conduct workshops internationally on Urban Design and Light Imprint and applying these techniques and design elements to projects internationally.
Identifying a disconnect between walkable urban design and green infrastructure, Tom Low introduced the Light Imprint Initiative at an Open Space Workshop in conjunction with the Congress of the New Urbanism held in Philadelphia in 2007. Light Imprint is a New Urbanist planning design approach that includes a tool box of techniques to manage stormwater and natural drainage. Interest generated at that workshop grew exponentially. Tom Low began creating Light Imprint overlays for projects in the planning and construction stages. He assembled and led a team of experts to publish a limited edition of the first Light Imprint Handbook in 2007. Following an intensive four-month period of international peer review of the Handbook and the associated web site, the Light Imprint team gathered again in August 2008 to edit and compile version 1.3 of the latest published Light Imprint Handbook: Integrating Sustainability and Community Design. Light Imprint has grown and has had a ripple affect across the urban design, engineering, planning, environmental, green infrastructure and storm water management industries. Tom continues to lectures and conduct workshops internationally on Urban Design and Light Imprint and applying these techniques and design elements to projects internationally.
Tags
- Zero Discharge
- Sustainability
- Stormwater
- Urban Water
- Integrated Watershed Management
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Catchment Management
- Climate Change Resilience
- Infrastructure
- Storm Water Management
- Urban Drainage System
- Urban Water Infrastructure
- Land Use
- Green Building
- Sustainable Cities
- Urban Design
- Sustainable Landscaping
- Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)