The Sustainable City
WIT Press (Verlag)
978-1-78466-103-8 (ISBN)
ContentsSection 1: Urban strategiesUrban management foundation in risk reduction; Morphological analysis of the city for achieving design for disassembly; The conscious human ecological experience, conscious design, and the evolution of the built environment; Massive 3D models and physical data for building simulation at the urban scale: a focus on Geneva and climate change scenarios; The critical factors for the competitiveness of cities; Regenerating cities with community-based inclusive waste management practices; ACCENT: a pan-European co-created tool to take refurbishment decisions at a city scale based on buildings' energy performanceSection 2: Urban planning and designEducational buildings as part of sustainable urban planning; Cluster Analysis applied to the evaluation of urban landscape quality; Toward the quality assessment of multi-criteria data in planning for housing areas; Strategies for optimizing meso-scale spatial layout based on travel demand; Spatial development strategies for a liveable city: Parthenia; A sustainable city paradigm: criteria and indicators of efficiency; Apply urban morphology to study Tainan commercial district fabricsSection 3: Urban infrastructureChallenges faced in formulating pavement distress prediction models; Hedonic valuation of floodSection 4: Urban metabolismCity typologies of Europe: a tool to support urban sustainability studies and practices; ATLAS REUSE: studying the metabolic evolution of BarcelonaSection 5: Urban development and managementDeveloping a framework for evaluating equity in informal urban land development system in Sub-Saharan Africa; Developing a methodological approach for interpreting and predicting pedestrian movement in a public space for sustainable urban planning; A framework for reconciling user requirements and actual provision for Smart City implementation; Developing sustainable and liveable neighbourhoods: the role of public open spacesSection 6: Planning, development and managementUrban growth and urban infrastructure relations in Turkey; The increase of popular participation in the master plan review in Osorio City, South Brazil; Differentiation of the assessment of identified risks in the process of preparing and creating a municipal land plan; The comprehensive urbanization level index (CULI) as a new approach to reclassifying urban and rural settlements in EgyptSection 7: Landscape planning and designSustainable urban landscape; Urban green areas in the days of urbanization: the case of Ataturk Forest Farm, Ankara, Turkey; Towards a contemporary drawing of the citySection 8: Architectural issues"Domestication" of renewable energy from a Polish perspective; Quality-assured solutions for green roof gardens on concrete deck with zero tolerance for leaks; The importance of architecture education for disaster mitigationSection 9: Environmental managementEnvironmental benefits of green infrastructure techniques and applications; A review on green building assessment tools: rating, calculation and decision-making; Mapping an urban ecosystem service: quantifying carbon storage in soils at an island-city on a wide scaleSection 10: Waterfront developmentPreventive management of undesired changes in alongshore sediment transport in the planning of a waterfront infrastructure; Strategies for the sustainable urban waterfront; Collaborative strategic planning: improving consciousness of belonging and resilienceSection 11: Planning for resilienceWhen civil protection meets urban planning: conceptualising a resilient city development process; Interconnections of urban systems: infrastructure, design and planning in relation to the presence of resilience - a case study in the city of Blumenau, Santa Catarina State, Southern Brazil; Regret model for resilience in road design; Designing resilient regions by applying Blue-Green Infrastructure conceptsSection 12: Sustainable energy and the cityRelative vulnerabilities of urban residential development to oil depletion: pilot case studies of a representative building typology in the Australian context; The index of regional sustainable integration for hydropower plants; Group decision-making for the thermal renovation of masonry buildings in Algeria; Forecast about energy behavior and the indoor quality of a tower of social dwellings in Bucaramanga (Colombia); City-integrated photovoltaics sustainably satisfy urban transportation energy needsSection 13: TransportationGlobal land transport system ComplexTrans and its contribution to city sustainability; The role of innovative transportation financing tools in achieving urban sustainability: a stakeholder's perspectiveSection 14: Disaster and emergency responseThe unconscious mind rules in absentia; Defining the architectural characteristics of multi-purpose shelters: drawing issues through analysis of disaster sheltersSection 15: Quality of lifeThe impact of innovative smart design solutions on achieving sustainable interior design; Sustainable textile materials in interiors; Post-occupancy evaluation of pilgrims' accommodation: a case study of Mina in Makkah city; Floating architecture in the developing worldSection 16: The community and the citySuccessful fast-track cooperation towards environmental action: three coproduction cases in Mexico City; What makes a public open space liveable?; The use of recreational urban parks in Johannesburg: a phenomenological study of place attachment in Thokoza Park in Moroka, SowetoSection 17: Socio-economic issuesStructural analysis, measurement of a spatial distribution model and classification of the construction of urban areas based on the benefit from urban services: case study - five districts of Zahedan; Tourism and sustainable local development in the city of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico 1990-2015; Active information system on the public spaces of Andalusia: Andalucia Transversal Laboratory; Great expectations: two tales of a citySection 18: Case studies: sustainable practicesCycle lane network to connect the different campuses of Technical University of Cartagena (Spain); Sediment load estimation in combined sewer systems located in semi-arid areas: a case study; Making education on sustainable community planning tangible; The influence of open space on the sustainable development of a residential area: three time periods - three case studies in the City of Brno (Czech Republic); Redefining sustainable values using a case study from Indonesian cities; Amsterdam Smart City (ASC): fishing village to sustainable city; Interdisciplinary education: a learning method for a sustainable model of housing; Characterization of environmental and energy performance of an average social dwelling in a tropical region of ColombiaSection 19: Building information modellingUsing BIM to mitigate risks associated with health and safety in the construction and maintenance of infrastructure assets; Multi-sensorial network placement for building performance analysis and evaluation and facility management; Structural health monitoring and maintenance aided by building information modelling and repair information tools; Will BIM's level of development help leave drawings behind?; The BIM revolution: a literature review on rethinking the business of construction; A case study based approach to the integration of sustainable design analysis, performance and building information modellingAuthor index
Erscheinungsdatum | 29.08.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment ; 204 |
Verlagsort | Southampton |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Technik ► Architektur | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78466-103-1 / 1784661031 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78466-103-8 / 9781784661038 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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