Clean Energy City Patterns
Best practice clean energy design from around the world and in Jinan represent a universe of livable,
clean energy urban designs. Clearly there are many urban form structures and combinations to achieving this goal,
but the variety is not infinite. Upon analysis, the designs can be seen to represent variations on just
six basic prototypes.
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Walk Up Slab Enclaves
Consist of stacked flats arranged in linear 4-6 story buildings grouped into more or less private enclaves surrounded by city streets lined with shops and services. -
Small Perimeter Blocks
Pedestrian oriented development with relatively small blocks of up to 80 meters by side. -
Urban Grid Mixes
Consist of rectilinear public streets and private density housing types may be built within the blocks -
High Density Perimeter Blocks
Consist of 8-10 story or even taller buildings grouped around the edges of an urban-scale block leaving a space in the middle. -
Urban Sponges
A pedestrian environment that mixes living with working, production, and commerce in a complex but highly permeable urban form of built and open spaces - like a sponge. -
Tower Networks
This prototype is a newly emerging high-rise form in which the tower elements are not freestanding, but connected to one another at the lower levels and high in the air, forming a network.
