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ISBN 13 : 981446662X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
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Author : Gang Chen
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814287776
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Towards a Liveable and Sustainable Urban Environment written by Gang Chen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Eco-cities : re-examining concepts and approaches / Hidefumi Imura -- 2. Let's get real : critical visions and sustainable eco-urbanism / William S.W. Lim -- 3. Some thoughts on the development of eco-cities in Asia / Lye Liang Fook and Chen Gang -- 4. Building ecotopia : critical reflections on eco-city development in China / Pow Choon-Piew and Harvey Neo -- 5. Moving toward eco-friendly city : perspective on Thailand / Rujiroj Anambutr -- 6. Challenges to implementing the eco-city concept in Indonesia's major cities / Suraya A. Afiff -- 7. Eco-city : China's realities and challenges in urban planning and design / Wang Tao and Shao Lei -- 8. Sustainable living : an overview from the Malaysian perspective / Hardev Kaur and Mizan Hitam -- 9. Prospects on ecological development in Philippine cities / Marife M. Ballesteros
Author : Basant Maheshwari
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319281127
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
Download or read book Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities written by Basant Maheshwari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique synthesis of concepts and tools to examine natural resource, socio-economic, legal, policy and institutional issues that are important for managing urban growth into the future. The book will particularly help the reader to understand the current issues and challenges and develop strategies and practices to cope with future pressures of urbanisation and peri-urban land, water and energy use challenges. In particular, the book will help the reader to discover underlying principles for the planning of future cities and peri-urban regions in relation to: (i) Balanced urban development policies and institutions for future cities; (ii) Understanding the effects of land use change, population increase, and water demand on the liveability of cities; (iii) Long-term planning needs and transdisciplinary approaches to ensure the secured future for generations ahead; and (iv) Strategies to adapt the cities and land, water and energy uses for viable and liveable cities. There are growing concerns about water, food security and sustainability with increased urbanisation worldwide. For cities to be liveable and sustainable into the future there is a need to maintain the natural resource base and the ecosystem services in the peri-urban areas surrounding cities. This need is increasing under the looming spectre of global warming and climate change. This book will be of interest to policy makers, urban planners, researchers, post-graduate students in urban planning, environmental and water resources management, and managers in municipal councils.
Author : Ellen M. van Bueren
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400712944
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Urban Environments written by Ellen M. van Bueren and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urban environment – buildings, cities and infrastructure – represents one of the most important contributors to climate change, while at the same time holding the key to a more sustainable way of living. The transformation from traditional to sustainable systems requires interdisciplinary knowledge of the re-design, construction, operation and maintenance of the built environment. Sustainable Urban Environments: An Ecosystem Approach presents fundamental knowledge of the built environment. Approaching the topic from an ecosystems perspective, it shows the reader how to combine diverse practical elements into sustainable solutions for future buildings and cities. You’ll learn to connect problems and solutions at different spatial scales, from urban ecology to material, water and energy use, from urban transport to livability and health. The authors introduce and explore a variety of governance tools that support the transformation process, and show how they can help overcome institutional barriers. The book concludes with an account of promising perspectives for achieving a sustainable built environment in industrialized countries. Offering a unique overview and understanding of the most pressing challenges in the built environment, Sustainable Urban Environments helps the reader grasp opportunities for integration of knowledge and technologies in the design, construction and management of the built environment. Students and practitioners who are eager to look beyond their own fields of interest will appreciate this book because of its depth and breadth of coverage.
Author : Francesco Alberti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030970469
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Urban and Transit Planning written by Francesco Alberti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book incorporates a wealth of research focused on the more and more urgent challenges that urban planning and architectural design all over the world must cope with: from climate change to environmental decay, from an increasing urban population to an increasing poverty. In detail, this book aims at providing innovative approaches, tool and case study examples that, in line with the agenda of 2030, may better drive human settlements toward a sustainable, inclusive and resilient development. To this aim, the book includes heterogeneous regional perspectives and different methodologies and suggests development models capable of limiting further urban growth and re-shaping existing cities to improve both environmental quality and the overall quality of life of people, also taking account the more and more close relationships among urban planning and technological innovation.
Author : Stephen M. Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134351712
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Planning for Sustainability written by Stephen M. Wheeler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing patterns of urbanization are unsustainable in the long run. Current development practices consume enormous amounts of land and resources, damage local ecosystems, produce pollutants, create huge inequalities between groups of people and undermine local community and quality of life. Unfortunately planning has itself led to many unsustainable development practices. Planning for Sustainability presents a straightforward, systematic analysis of how more sustainable cities and towns can be brought about. It does so in a highly readable manner that considers in turn each scale of planning: international, national, regional, municipal, neighbourhood, site and building. In the process it illustrates how sustainability initiatives at these different scales interrelate and how an overall framework can be developed for more livable communities.
Author : Christian Zuidema
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781472422484
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Urban Management European Experiences in Governing for a Sustainable Urban Future written by Christian Zuidema and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a major European Union comparative research project on urban environmental governance and subsequent studies which then clarified and validated the lessons it raised, this book focuses on urban sustainability. First of all, it reflects on the urban environmental agenda of the European Union, which was meant to be intensified with the 2006 'Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment'.
Author : Anthony G. Bigio
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821357965
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Urban Environment and Infrastructure written by Anthony G. Bigio and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'brown agenda, ' or urban environmental issues, became an important part of the international policy agenda following the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. Urban environmental issues continue to remain a major challenge in the cities of developing countries. The World Bank strengthened its focus on urban environmental management with the adoption of this brown agenda as part of the Bank's urban livability program. 'Urban Environment and Infrastructure' reviews the World Bank's activities to improve urban environmental quality. It sets out the Bank's expanded brown agenda and emphasizes the crucial importance of infrastructure and environmental interventions in order to improve livability in cities in developing countries. The World Bank has more than US$12 billion worth of active commitments aimed at improving urban environmental quality. While the Bank's investments are directed at much needed basic environmental services especially for the urban poor, the challenge of improving urban environment or livability in large cities needs further attention. Increasing climate variability, its impacts, especially sea-level rise, and urban impacts of natural disasters are becoming more and more part of the daily challenges facing cities in the developing world, seventy percent of which are located on the coasts. The volume provides pragmatic recommendations on how to deal with the challenge of this expanded brown agenda.
Author : Stephen M. Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131767216X
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Urban Development Reader written by Stephen M. Wheeler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the success of its second edition, the third edition of the Sustainable Urban Development Reader provides a generous selection of classic and contemporary readings giving a broad introduction to this topic. It begins by tracing the roots of the sustainable development concept in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, before presenting readings on a number of dimensions of the sustainability concept. Topics covered include land use and urban design, transportation, ecological planning and restoration, energy and materials use, economic development, social and environmental justice, and green architecture and building. All sections have a concise editorial introduction that places the selection in context and suggests further reading. Additional sections cover tools for sustainable development, international sustainable development, visions of sustainable community and case studies from around the world. The book also includes educational exercises for individuals, university classes, or community groups, and an extensive list of recommended readings. The anthology remains unique in presenting a broad array of classic and contemporary readings in this field, each with a concise introduction placing it within the context of this evolving discourse. The Sustainable Urban Development Reader presents an authoritative overview of the field using original sources in a highly readable format for university classes in urban studies, environmental studies, the social sciences, and related fields. It also makes a wide range of sustainable urban planning-related material available to the public in a clear and accessible way, forming an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the future of urban environments.
Author : Pierre Jacquet
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
ISBN 13 : 8179931315
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (799 download)
Download or read book Cities written by Pierre Jacquet and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century is already an urban one. Cities are pivotal to sustainability concerns globalization, climate change, food security, environmental protection, and innovation.Today's urban actors, both citizens and their leaders, have a major responsibility as trustees of the future: their present actions will influence the shape and structure of cities, so that the generation to come may live healthy and contended lives.This volume takes the reader straight to the heart of how cities work, and identifies contemporary trends, mechanism and tools that can influence current strategies and choices.The authors show that urbanization is not a problem per se for sustainable development, but rather that cities, in all their diversity and complexity, offer solutions as well as challenges.The reader will be inspired by vital analyses of the next decade's windows of opportunity for sustainable urban growth.
Author : Steffen Lehmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317659139
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Low Carbon Cities written by Steffen Lehmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Low Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and scholars in architecture, urban planning and design. It features essays on ecologically sustainable cities by leading exponents of urban sustainability, case studies of the new directions low carbon cities might take and investigations of how we can mitigate urban heat stress in our cities’ microclimates. The book explores the underlying dimensions of how existing cities can be transformed into low carbon urban systems and describes the design of low carbon cities in theory and practice. It considers the connections between low carbon cities and sustainable design, social and individual values, public space, housing affordability, public transport and urban microclimates. Given the rapid urbanisation underway globally, and the need for all our cities to operate more sustainably, we need to think about how spatial planning and design can help transform urban systems to create low carbon cities, and this book provides key insights.
Author : Peter B. Evans
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520230256
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Livable Cities? written by Peter B. Evans and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cities of the developing world are hubs of economic growth, but they are increasingly ecologically unsustainable and unliveable. This book explores the issues of livelihood and ecological sustainability in cities of the developing world.
Author : David Cadman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429589050
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book The Living City written by David Cadman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990. The options and probabilities for the future of cities are issues of outstanding contemporary importance, both in the developed and developing worlds. The Living City draws together both current mainstream ideas on their futures and various alternative views to enliven the debate and put forward an agenda for sustainable urban development, emphasizing ideas that question the economic imperatives of that development. Certain aspects of city life - the economy of the city, city-countryside relationships, the city as a cultural centre - are selected for study, as the book looks at the historical past and current experiences to speculate on the likely condition of cities in the future. In addition, the book investigates whether the Third World experience of city life is a separate experience or whether there are lessons to be learnt relating to all cities. The book will appeal to professionals in the surveying, planning and architectural fields, as well as students and academics in Planning, Geography, Economics, Architecture, Development Studies and Sociology and anyone interested in issues concerning the city and the environment.
Author : Marichela Sepe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000728544
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Designing Healthy and Liveable Cities written by Marichela Sepe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last ten years, concepts such as urban health and liveability have become ever more present in urban planning studies. Many companies rank the most liveable city in the world or in a nation, and many indicators are used to try to measure factors which can report the health of a place by investigating it in different ways. While it is possible to understand why a place is liveable – due to the liveability and health concepts that are being more and more explored in urban studies, and the strong influence coming from other disciplines – it is difficult to design a place that is certain to be healthy and liveable. Accordingly, aim of this book is, after the definition of the field of investigation concerning sustainable regeneration trough topics such as resilience, adaptation, health, and mixed connections, to illustrate the present-day approaches to the analysis and design of healthy places, and in particular the original Healthy Pl@ce Design method, flexible and repeatable in different contexts. The method aims to identify sustainable urban liveability and healthiness and the factors which make places liveable and healthy from users' points of view and identifying design interventions that can enhance or create both urban liveability and health. Emblematic case studies carried out in Europe, Canada and China – Bordeaux, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Madrid, Newcastle–Gateshead, Nice, Dublin, Vancouver and Wuhan – constitute the empirical part of the book, detailed with surveys, questionnaires, images and maps. The theoretical framework – built on contemporary issues – and international case studies make this book both attractive and scientific, adding a new stone on the sustainable city construction and opening it to a particularly wide readership, including scholars, students, administrators and professionals.
Author : Vanesa Castán Broto
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 178699495X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Urban Sustainability and Justice written by Vanesa Castán Broto and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Sustainability and Justice presents an innovative yet practical approach to incorporate equity and social justice into sustainable development in urban areas, in line with the commitments of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda. This work proposes a feminist reading of just sustainabilities' principles to reclaim sustainability as a progressive discourse which informs action on the ground. This work will help the committed activist (whether they are on the ground, working in a community, in a non-governmental organization (NGO), in a business, at a university, in any sphere in government) to connect their work to international efforts to deliver environmental justice in cities around the world. Drawing on a comparative, international analysis of sustainability initiatives in over 200 cities, Castán Broto and Westman find limited evidence of the implementation of just sustainabilities principles in practice, but they argue that there is considerable potential to develop a justice-oriented sustainability agenda. Highlighting current successes while also assessing prospects for the future, the authors show that just sustainabilities is not merely an aspirational discourse, but a frame of reference to support radical action on the ground.
Author : S. Syngellakis
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1784664472
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)
Download or read book The Sustainable City XV written by S. Syngellakis and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of presented papers from the 15th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability, the included works address various aspects of the urban environment and provide solutions leading towards sustainability. Urban areas result in a series of environmental challenges varying from the consumption of natural resources and the subsequent generation of waste and pollution, contributing to the development of social and economic imbalances. As cities continue to grow all over the world, these problems tend to become more acute and require the development of new solutions. The challenge of planning sustainable contemporary cities lies in considering the dynamics of urban systems, exchange of energy and matter, and the function and maintenance of ordered structures directly or indirectly supplied and maintained by natural systems. The task of researchers is to improve the capacity to manage human activities, pursuing welfare and prosperity in the urban environment. Any investigation or planning on a city ought to consider the relationships between the parts and their connections with the living world. The dynamics of its networks (flows of energy matter, people, goods, information and other resources) are fundamental for an understanding of the evolving nature of today’s cities. Large cities 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. Coastal areas and coastal cities are an important area covered in this volume as they have some specific features. Their strategic location facilitates transportation and the development of related activities, but this requires the existence of large ports, with the corresponding increase in maritime and road traffic and all its inherent negative effects. This requires the development of well-planned and managed urban environments, not only for reasons of efficiency and economics but also to avoid inflicting environmental degradation that causes the deterioration of natural resources, quality of life and human health. These research papers put a focus on sustainability across the multidisciplinary components of urban planning, the challenges presented by the increasing size of cities, the number of resources required and the complexity of modern society.
Author : Thomas Elmqvist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108186963
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Urban Planet written by Thomas Elmqvist and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global urbanization promises better services, stronger economies, and more connections; it also carries risks and unforeseeable consequences. To deepen our understanding of this complex process and its importance for global sustainability, we need to build interdisciplinary knowledge around a systems approach. Urban Planet takes an integrative look at our urban environment, bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines: from sociology and political science to evolutionary biology, geography, economics and engineering. It includes the perspectives of often neglected voices: architects, journalists, artists and activists. The book provides a much needed cross-scale perspective, connecting challenges and solutions on a local scale with drivers and policy frameworks on a regional and global scale. The authors argue that to overcome the major challenges we are facing, we must embark on a large-scale reinvention of how we live together, grounded in inclusiveness and sustainability. This title is also available Open Access.
