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The Sustainable City X: (194 WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment)

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Containing the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability this book addresses the multidisciplinary aspects of urban planning; a result of the increasing size of cities; the amount of resources and services required and the complexity of modern society.Most of earth's population now lives in cities and the process of urbanisation continues generating many problems deriving from the drift of the population towards them. These problems can be resolved by cities becoming efficient habitats, saving resources in a way that improves the quality and standard of living. The process, however, faces a number of major challenges, related to reducing pollution, improving main transportation and infrastructure systems. New urban solutions are required to optimise the use of space and energy resources leading to improvements in the environment, i.e. reduction in air, water and soil pollution as well as efficient ways to deal with waste generation.These challenges contribute to the development of social and economic imbalances and require the development of new solutions. Large cities are probably the most complex mechanisms to manage.However, despite such complexity they represent a fertile ground for architects, engineers, city planners, social and political scientists, and other professionals able to conceive new ideas and time them according to technological advances and human requirements. The challenge of planning sustainable cities lies in considering their dynamics, the exchange of energy and matter, and the function and maintenance of ordered structures directly or indirectly, supplied and maintained by natural systems.Topics covered include: Urban Strategies; Planning, Development and Management; Landscape Planning and Design; Environmental Management; Planning for Risk and Natural Hazards; Sustainable Energy and the City; Transportation; Waste Management; Case Studies.

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ContentsSection 1: Urban strategiesFAST Matrix: depicting the time-related aspect of urban development; CAD integrated workflow with urban simulation-design loop process; Multi-layered urban strategies to foster the Smart Cities development; Urban sustainability challenges: democracy and spatial injustices in modern Tunisia; A systemic model of the sustainable urban tourism insertion in the digital, smart and knowledge city of Mexico City; Compact city and traditional housing areas for urban sustainability: a case study - Bursa, Turkey; The urban block as a potential for sustainable urban design; Sustainability assessment of an urban neighbourhood revitalization project in Bogota, by transposition of a European indicator system to the Colombian context; Monitoring urban storm water: facing climate changes in a Mediterranean coastal citySection 2: Planning, development and managementA new approach to simulate buildings and their crucial characteristics in a comprehensive urban simulation environment; Regional-urban evolution of the metropolitan area of Mexicali 1990-2010: planning changes and challenges; Can urban planning deliver sustainable outcomes: measuring the association between urban structure and form and sustainable household behaviour; Urban expansion evaluation from orbital images; The management of informal settlements for urban sustainability: experiences from the Campania Region (Italy); Low-income sustainable dwelling; Humanitarian development in Africa; Incorporation of LEED criteria into architectural design process: a strategy to increase construction qualitySection 3: Landscape planning and designDesign and management of the metropolitan green belt of Aburra Valley, Colombia; Green networks: a solution to the Urban Heat Island effectSection 4: Environmental managementLife cycle assessment of residential buildings: a review of methodologies; Urban imaginaries and the sustainable city; Application of hydrogels on highly polluted affluents: the leachateSection 5: Planning for risk and natural hazardsAn assessment of measures for the prevention of the origin and consequences of a selected group of exceptional events in a territorial unit; Linkages among the challenges in mainstreaming climate change adaptation into local land use planning; Assessment of selected risks in the process of the creation and preparation of a municipal territorial planSection 6: Sustainable energy and the cityTransition to sustainable city: an integrated design approach for transformative districts - a proposal for replicability; Buildings' energy demand modelling for sustainable decision support; Spatial simulation environment for decision supportSection 7: TransportationBRT in metropolitan regions: two examples in Brazil; An approach for the evaluation and implementation of mixed rail operations in harmony with non-motorized trails and urban structure: the case of Xalapa, Mexico; Transition pathways of e-mobility services; Analysis on acceptance of elderly drivers for intelligent speed adaptation using a driving simulator; Environmental impacts of everyday mobility in Andalusia (Spain): towards a sustainable scenario?Section 8: Waste managementThe definition of an Urban Waste Management Plan: the case of Genoa; Mineralogical characterization of urban construction and demolition waste: potential use as a nutrient source for degraded soilsSection 9: Case studiesTarlabasi, Istanbul: a case study of unsustainable urban transformation; Sustainable intraurban cities: the Moema Tinoco Project in the city of Natal, Brazil; Climate action plan for the city of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico: a tool for sustainability; A rural intervention in the urban context: an urban-poor neighbourhood agricultural project in Kucuk Armutlu, Istanbul; Cohabitation between Cartagena and Cartago Nova (Spain); Uncertainty in resistance models for historic cast-iron columnsAuthor index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845649425
  • Publisher: WIT Press
  • Publisher Imprint: WIT Press
  • Depth: 32
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1845649427
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2015
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 504
  • Series Title: 194 WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment
  • Weight: 879 gr


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