Publications

Tavel, Michael. “The Culture of Green Neighborhoods.” In In the Pursuit of Living Architecture: Continuing Chrisopher Alexander’s Quest for a Humane and Sustainable Building Culture, edited by Kyriakos Pontikis. Champaign: Common Ground Publishing, 2016.

Brown, G.Z. and Mark DeKay. Sun, Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies. 3rd ed. Hoboken: Wiley, 2014.

Williams, Joanna. Zero Carbon Homes–A Road Map. New York: Routledge, 2012.

Tavel, Michael. “Climate-Responsive Urbanism: Historic Precedents and Progressive Practice.” Journal of the 2011 Portland Urban Architectural Research Laboratory International Symposium (2012).

“Sustainable Landscapes,” National ASLA website, features Geos Net-Zero Energy Neighborhood, 2011.

Aminoff, Jenise. “Sustainable Communities.” Urban Farm, Fall 2010.

Tavel, Michael. “A Case Study in Patterns for Sustainable Urbanism: The Geos Net-Zero Energy Neighborhood.” Current Challenges for Patterns, Pattern Languages & Sustainability: Journal of the 2009 Portland Urban Architectural Research Laboratory Symposium (2010).

“Geos Net Zero Energy Neighborhood.” Landscape World. Vol 24. Seoul, 2009.

“Colorado Sustainable Design Awards for Sustainable Communities.” ColoradoBiz, November 2009.

Tavel, Michael. “A Short Urban History of Colorado.” Colorado Urbanizing, Colorado Chapter of the Congress of New Urbanism, in association with CNU 17 National Conference, 2009.

“Colorado Design Firms Win National Award for Net-Zero Energy Neighborhood.” Exposures, ASLA, June 2009.

“New Colorado Neighborhood Aims for Net Zero Energy Use.” UrbanLand Magazine, ULI, June 2008.

“Zero Energy Meets New Urbanism,” Boulder Green Building Journal, Spring 2007.

“A Place in the Sun: Condo complex lauded for funky design that emphasizes solar power.” Rocky Mountain News, 2006.

Tavel, Michael and David Kahn. “Cold War Hangovers: Planning in Prague’s Post-Communist Landscape, in Architecture: Material and Imagined.” ACSA Press, 1997.

Tavel, Michael and David Kahn and Keith Dubinsky. “Open Contact: Phenomenal Experience and “Natural” Processes, in Ecology, Aesthetics and Design.” National ASLA, 1994.