Computer Modelling For Sustainable Urban Design

Author : Darren Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136539350

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Computer Modelling for Sustainable Urban Design by Darren Robinson Pdf

This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modelled and optimised. Starting with an introduction to the importance and key aspects of the topic, it moves on to a detailed consideration of the urban climate and pedestrian comfort. Comprehensive techniques for the modelling and optimisation of urban metabolism are then described, together with means for defining sustainability as the fitness function to be optimised. It ends with an eye to the future of sustainable urban design and the means available to urban designers and governors to help them to secure a more sustainable urban future. This book will be invaluable both in informing the next generation of urban planners, architects and engineers, and as a tool to current professionals that will directly contribute to the effectiveness of their work by allowing them to more successfully measure and model urban sustainability.

Author : Stefan Müller Arisona,Gideon Aschwanden,Jan Halatsch,Peter Wonka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642297588

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Digital Urban Modeling and Simulation by Stefan Müller Arisona,Gideon Aschwanden,Jan Halatsch,Peter Wonka Pdf

This book is thematically positioned at the intersections of Urban Design, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Computer Science, and it has the goal to provide specialists coming from respective fields a multi-angle overview of state-of-the-art work currently being carried out. It addresses both newcomers who wish to obtain more knowledge about this growing area of interest, as well as established researchers and practitioners who want to keep up to date. In terms of organization, the volume starts out with chapters looking at the domain at a wide-angle and then moves focus towards technical viewpoints and approaches.

Author : Darren Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136539367

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Computer Modelling for Sustainable Urban Design by Darren Robinson Pdf

This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modelled and optimised. Starting with an introduction to the importance and key aspects of the topic, it moves on to a detailed consideration of the urban climate and pedestrian comfort. Comprehensive techniques for the modelling and optimisation of urban metabolism are then described, together with means for defining sustainability as the fitness function to be optimised. It ends with an eye to the future of sustainable urban design and the means available to urban designers and governors to help them to secure a more sustainable urban future. This book will be invaluable both in informing the next generation of urban planners, architects and engineers, and as a tool to current professionals that will directly contribute to the effectiveness of their work by allowing them to more successfully measure and model urban sustainability.

Author : Shih-Kung Lai,Haoying Han
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317003991

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Urban Complexity and Planning by Shih-Kung Lai,Haoying Han Pdf

In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity. The crux of this view is that cities are created by differentiated actors involved in individual, small-scale projects interacting in a complex way in the urban development process. This 'bottom up' approach to urban modeling not only transforms our understanding of cities, but also improves our capabilities of harnessing the urban development process. For example, we used to think that plans control urban development in an aggregate, holistic way, but what actually happens is that plans only affect differentiated actors in seeking their goals through information. In other words, plans and regulations set restrictions or incentives of individual behaviour in the urban development process through imposing rights, information, and prices, and the analysis of the effects of plans and regulations must take into account the complex urban dynamics at a disaggregate level of the urban development process. Computer simulations provide a rigorous, promising analytic tool that serves as a supplement to the traditional, mathematical approach to depicting complex urban dynamics. Based on the emergent paradigm of complexity, the book provides an innovative set of arguments about how we can gain a better understanding of how cities emerge and function through computer simulations, and how plans affect the evolution of complex urban systems in a way distinct from what we used to think they should. Empirical case studies focus on the development of a compact urban hierarchy in Taiwan, China, and the USA, but derive more generalizable principles and relationships among cities, complexity, and planning.

Author : Ali Cheshmehzangi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819990146

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City Information Modelling by Ali Cheshmehzangi Pdf

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Board on Energy and Environmental Systems,Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics,Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309494144

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Enhancing Urban Sustainability with Data, Modeling, and Simulation by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Board on Energy and Environmental Systems,Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics,Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics Pdf

On January 30-31, 2019 the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics, in collaboration with the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, convened a workshop in Washington, D.C. to explore the frontiers of mathematics and data science needs for sustainable urban communities. The workshop strengthened the emerging interdisciplinary network of practitioners, business leaders, government officials, nonprofit stakeholders, academics, and policy makers using data, modeling, and simulation for urban and community sustainability, and addressed common challenges that the community faces. Presentations highlighted urban sustainability research efforts and programs under way, including research into air quality, water management, waste disposal, and social equity and discussed promising urban sustainability research questions that improved use of big data, modeling, and simulation can help address. This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.

Author : Michael A. Von Hausen
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781475949896

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Dynamic Urban Design by Michael A. Von Hausen Pdf

"For future human survival and quality of life, the world needs a more inclusive, rigorous, socially inspired, and comprehensive urban design model integrated with sustainable development. This book delivers that model ..."--Back cover.

Author : Ying Long,Enjia Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030496180

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Data Augmented Design by Ying Long,Enjia Zhang Pdf

This book offers an essential introduction to a new urban planning and design methodology called Data Augmented Design (DAD) and its evolution and progresses, highlighting data driven methods, urban planning and design applications and related theories. The authors draw on many kinds of data, including big, open, and conventional data, and discuss cutting-edge technologies that illustrate DAD as a future oriented design framework in terms of its focus on multi-data, multi-method, multi-stage and multi-scale sustainable urban planning. In four sections and ten chapters, the book presents case studies to address the core concepts of DAD, the first type of applications of DAD that emerged in redevelopment-oriented planning and design, the second type committed to the planning and design for urban expansion, and the future-oriented applications of DAD to advance sustainable technologies and the future structural form of the built environment. The book is geared towards a broad readership, ranging from researchers and students of urban planning, urban design, urban geography, urban economics, and urban sociology, to practitioners in the areas of urban planning and design.​

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics,National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Board on Energy and Environmental Systems,National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Big data
ISBN : 0309494125

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Enhancing Urban Sustainability with Data, Modeling, and Simulation by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics,National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Board on Energy and Environmental Systems,National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Pdf

"On January 30-31, 2019 the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics, in collaboration with the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, convened a workshop in Washington, D.C. to explore the frontiers of mathematics and data science needs for sustainable urban communities. The workshop strengthened the emerging interdisciplinary network of practitioners, business leaders, government officials, nonprofit stakeholders, academics, and policy makers using data, modeling, and simulation for urban and community sustainability, and addressed common challenges that the community faces. Presentations highlighted urban sustainability research efforts and programs under way, including research into air quality, water management, waste disposal, and social equity and discussed promising urban sustainability research questions that improved use of big data, modeling, and simulation can help address. This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop"--Publisher's description

Author : Pijush Samui,Anasua GuhaRay,Elham Mahmoudi
Publisher : Bentham Science Publishers
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789815049084

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Facets of a Smart City: Computational and Experimental Techniques for Sustainable Urban Development by Pijush Samui,Anasua GuhaRay,Elham Mahmoudi Pdf

A smart city uses technology to provide services and solve problems to improve urban policy efficiency, reduce waste, improve quality of life, and maximize social inclusion. By 2050, 66% of the world’s population is expected to be urban, which is a key driver of a global trend toward the creation of smart cities. This trend creates many opportunities for urban planning committees to learn how to design, modernize, and operate smart cities intelligently and effectively. Facets of a Smart City: Computational and Experimental Techniques for Sustainable Urban Development is a collection of topics that are relevant to the design of a smart city. This book aims to complement technical journal articles that require advanced knowledge of the subject of smart cities and applications for readers. It aims to bridge knowledge gaps in sustainable urban design by providing background information via case studies to facilitate students, recent graduates and new practitioners in urban design and planning. Key Features: - This book features 9 chapters that cover 6 major domains, which include (i) information modelling, (ii) internet of things, (iii) intelligent transportation systems, (iv) water supply, (v) waste management and (vi) sustainable environment - Computational techniques are included in the book. These include artificial neural networks, stochastic models, particle swarm optimization, machine learning, and adaptive neuro-fuzzy Inference systems. - Goals of case studies presented in this book use computational techniques to offer readers examples of supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning strategies in the context of smart city applications - References are provided for further reading

Author : Hildebrand Frey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135814052

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Designing the City by Hildebrand Frey Pdf

Designing the City looks at current urban problems in cities and demonstrates how effective urban design can address social, economic and environmental issues as well as the physical planning at local level. The book is highly visual and illustrates the topic with a variety of sketches, line drawings, axonometrics and models. The author draws upon the valuable experience gained by the City of Glasgow and compares its solutions - successful and less successful - with projects in a variety of European countries.

Author : Barbara E.A. Piga,Rossella Salerno
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319518046

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Urban Design and Representation by Barbara E.A. Piga,Rossella Salerno Pdf

This book explores how environmental urban design can benefit from established and emerging representation and simulation techniques that meet the need for a multisensory approach. Bringing together contributions by researchers and practicing professionals that approach the topics discussed from both theoretical and practical perspectives and draw on case-study applications, it addresses important themes including digital modeling, physical modeling, mapping, and simulation. The chapters are linked by their relevance to simple but crucial questions: How can representational solutions enhance an urban design approach in which people’s well-being is considered the primary goal? How can one best represent and design the ambiance of places? What kinds of technologies and tools are available to support multisensory urban design? How can current and future environments be optimally represented and simulated, taking into account the way in which we experience places? Shedding new light on these key questions, the book offers both a reference guide for those engaged in applied research, and a toolkit for professionals and students.

Author : Brady Peters,Terri Peters
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119097891

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Computing the Environment by Brady Peters,Terri Peters Pdf

Computing the Environment presents practical workflows and guidance for designers to get feedback on their design using digital design tools on environmental performance. Starting with an extensive state-of-the-art survey of what top international offices are currently using in their design projects, this book presents detailed descriptions of the tools, algorithms, and workflows used and discusses the theories that underlie these methods. Project examples from Transsolar Klimaengineering, Buro Happold´s SMART Group, Behnish Behnisch Architects, Thomas Herzog, Autodesk Research are contextualized with quotes and references to key thinkers in this field such as Eric Winsberg, Andrew Marsh, Michelle Addington and Ali Malkawi.

Author : Christian Walloth,Ernst Gebetsroither-Geringer,Funda Atun,Liss C. Werner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319301785

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Understanding Complex Urban Systems by Christian Walloth,Ernst Gebetsroither-Geringer,Funda Atun,Liss C. Werner Pdf

This book is devoted to the modeling and understanding of complex urban systems. This second volume of Understanding Complex Urban Systems focuses on the challenges of the modeling tools, concerning, e.g., the quality and quantity of data and the selection of an appropriate modeling approach. It is meant to support urban decision-makers—including municipal politicians, spatial planners, and citizen groups—in choosing an appropriate modeling approach for their particular modeling requirements. The contributors to this volume are from different disciplines, but all share the same goal: optimizing the representation of complex urban systems. They present and discuss a variety of approaches for dealing with data-availability problems and finding appropriate modeling approaches—and not only in terms of computer modeling. The selection of articles featured in this volume reflect a broad variety of new and established modeling approaches such as: - An argument for using Big Data methods in conjunction with Agent-based Modeling; - The introduction of a participatory approach involving citizens, in order to utilize an Agent-based Modeling approach to simulate urban-growth scenarios; - A presentation of semantic modeling to enable a flexible application of modeling methods and a flexible exchange of data; - An article about a nested-systems approach to analyzing a city’s interdependent subsystems (according to these subsystems’ different velocities of change); - An article about methods that use Luhmann’s system theory to characterize cities as systems that are composed of flows; - An article that demonstrates how the Sen-Nussbaum Capabilities Approach can be used in urban systems to measure household well-being shifts that occur in response to the resettlement of urban households; - A final article that illustrates how Adaptive Cycles of Complex Adaptive Systems, as well as innovation, can be applied to gain a better understanding of cities and to promote more resilient and more sustainable urban futures.

Author : Athanasia Karakitsiou,Athanasios Migdalas,Stamatina Th. Rassia,Panos M. Pardalos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319653389

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City Networks by Athanasia Karakitsiou,Athanasios Migdalas,Stamatina Th. Rassia,Panos M. Pardalos Pdf

Sustainable development within urban and rural areas, transportation systems, logistics, supply chain management, urban health, social services, and architectural design are taken into consideration in the cohesive network models provided in this book. The ideas, methods, and models presented consider city landscapes and quality of life conditions based on mathematical network models and optimization. Interdisciplinary Works from prominent researchers in mathematical modeling, optimization, architecture, engineering, and physics are featured in this volume to promote health and well-being through design. Specific topics include: - Current technology that form the basis of future living in smart cities - Interdisciplinary design and networking of large-scale urban systems - Network communication and route traffic optimization - Carbon dioxide emission reduction - Closed-loop logistics chain management and operation - Modeling the effect urban environments on aging - Health care infrastructure - Urban water system management - Architectural design optimization Graduate students and researchers actively involved in architecture, engineering, building physics, logistics, supply chain management, and mathematical optimization will find the interdisciplinary work presented both informative and inspiring for further research.