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The Practice of Low Impact Development

Type: Publications and Reports , Topics: Sustainable Development

Author: 
NAHB Research Center, Inc.
Date: 
2003
Publisher: 
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Pages: 
131 pp.

This Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) document focuses on technologies that affect cost impacts and environmental issues associated with the land development process. It provides a brief introduction to low-impact development and discusses conventional and alternative techniques and technologies that developers and planners can integrate into their existing land development practices in order to provide built environments that enhance the natural environment.

Degree of difficulty: 
Moderate

Available: http://www.huduser.org/intercept.asp?loc=/Publications/PDF/practLowImpct...

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