The forefront of sustainability is the combination of green building and urbanism. This session will review emerging standards of practice as formulated, researched, and compiled in this new publication from John Wiley & Sons. The new standards of sustainable communities promise to change the scope and practice of architecture to engage individual buildings and their architects in larger urban and natural systems.

    Learning objectives:

• Explain the central role that urbanism plays in the push for sustainability and describe how this trend may change architecture practice
• Describe emerging standards of sustainable urbanism and how to incorporate them into architecture practice
• Compare and contrast worldwide case studies that demonstrate many of the emerging standards of practice