Housing Sustainability In Low Carbon Cities

Author : Ralph Horne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315519357

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Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities by Ralph Horne Pdf

Housing affordability, urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined, yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed. Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities addresses this gap by developing an interdisciplinary approach to urban decarbonisation, drawing upon more established, yet quite distinctive, fields of built environment policy and design, housing, and studies of social and economic change. Through this approach, policy and practices of housing affordability, equity, energy efficiency, resilience and renewables are critiqued and alternatives are presented. Drawing upon international case studies, this book provides a unique contribution to interdisciplinary urban and housing studies, discourses and practices in an era of climate change. This book is recommended reading on higher level undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses in architecture, urban studies, planning, built environment, geography and urban studies. It will also be directly valuable to housing and urban policy makers and sustainability practitioners.

Author : Francesco Pomponi,Bernardino D’Amico
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039438150

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Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities by Francesco Pomponi,Bernardino D’Amico Pdf

The built environment is at a turning point. With projected trends in population growth and urbanization, global demand for new floor area is expected to rise sharply. This will put unprecedented pressure on the availability of natural resources and incur greenhouse gas emissions and energy demand. Such environmental stressors risk driving the world away from the UN Sustainable Development Goals, but equally represent an opportunity for just sustainability transitions. The contents of this book aim to address some of these grand challenges from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Low-energy architecture, low-carbon cities and the often-forgotten sustainability of refugee settlements are some of the themes dealt with by the authors.

Author : Trivess Moore,Andréanne Doyon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789819927609

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A Transition to Sustainable Housing by Trivess Moore,Andréanne Doyon Pdf

This open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the scaling up of sustainable housing and the various policy attempts to address this. Going beyond an environmental focus, the book explores a range of housing-related challenges including social justice and equity issues. Sustainability transitions theory is presented as a framework to help facilitate a sustainable housing transition and a range of contemporary case studies are explored on issues including high performing housing, small housing, shared housing, neighbourhood-scale housing, circular housing, and innovative financing for housing. It is an important new resource that challenges policy makers, planners, housing construction industry stakeholders, and researchers to rethink what housing is, how we design and construct it, and how we can better integrate impacts on households to wider policy development.

Author : Sun Sheng Han,Ray Green,Mark Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317802402

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Towards Low Carbon Cities in China by Sun Sheng Han,Ray Green,Mark Wang Pdf

This book explores the relationship between urban form and greenhouse gas emissions in China, providing new insights for policy, urban planning and management. Drawing on the results of a four-year multidisciplinary research project, the book examines how factors such as urban households’ access to services and jobs, land use mixes and provision of public transport impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The authors analyse data from a wide range of sources including 4677 sample households from four major Chinese cities – Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and Xi’an – with diverse locations, urban spatial structures and population sizes. The book explores residents’ attitudes to reducing GHG emissions and advances knowledge relating to three environmental scales – cross-metropolitan, intra-city and neighbourhood level. It also contributes to debates on low carbon policy by revealing the relevance of urban planning parameters at both the macro and micro levels. The book will be of interest to scholars in the areas of urban planning, urban management, environmental sustainability and resource utilisation, as well as urban policy makers and planners who are working toward developing low carbon, sustainable cities of the future.

Author : Steffen Lehmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317659143

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Low Carbon Cities by Steffen Lehmann Pdf

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 : John Flint,Mike Raco
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847426666

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The Future of Sustainable Cities by John Flint,Mike Raco Pdf

An up-to-date assessment by prominent scholars of the impacts of recent changes on key areas of urban planning, including housing, transport, and the environment, and core areas for future research.

Author : Hugo Priemus,Simin Davoudi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134923465

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Climate Change and Sustainable Cities by Hugo Priemus,Simin Davoudi Pdf

Climate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the need for embedding a far greater environmental consciousness into our social values and norms. A drastic reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions requires a transition to low carbon cities. This demands a better understanding of the interactions between social, technical, and spatial processes which constitute cities. The aim of this book is to explore these interactions and urge urban planners and other built environment professionals to revisit some of their traditional concepts, methods, and ways of thinking about what constitutes a ‘good’ city and according to whose priorities. The book brings together nine contributions ranging from broad overviews to sector-specific analysis, paying particular attention to the role of urban planning. Contributors cover climate change mitigation and adaptation, deal with different scales of analysis ranging from international and European to national and city perspectives, and discuss a range of policy sectors including housing, transport, energy, sea level rise as well as pathways for climate policy implementation. The diversity of the contributions is itself a reflection of the multitude of climate change concerns that preoccupy researchers, policy makers and practitioners. This book was published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.

Author : Mary J. Thornbush,Oleg Golubchikov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783030259471

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Sustainable Urbanism in Digital Transitions by Mary J. Thornbush,Oleg Golubchikov Pdf

This book examines how contemporary urbanism is influenced by digital and low carbon transitions. From its infancy at the scale of individual buildings, a focus on ‘green’ agenda, energy, and resource efficiency has fostered research and policies for low carbon cities, eco-cities, and increasingly intelligent and smarter urban systems. Cities around the world are getting ‘smarter’ as more advanced technology is integrated into urban planning and design. People are relying more on digital and information and communication technology (ICT) in their daily lives, while cities are adopting more digital technology to monitor and gather information about people and their environment. This leads to Big Data collection, which is used to inform governance and improve urban performance. These transformations, however, raise critical questions, including whether emerging smart sustainable cities are too technocratic, but also with regard to citizen involvement. This brief addresses these important contemporary concerns through a review of literature and existing urban strategies. It should be of interest to everyone involved in advancing sustainable cities and smart cities. It should also be a relevant read for students and researchers in this area.

Author : Tim Dixon,Malcolm Eames,Miriam Hunt,Simon Lannon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317911937

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Urban Retrofitting for Sustainability by Tim Dixon,Malcolm Eames,Miriam Hunt,Simon Lannon Pdf

With a foreword from Paul King, Chief Executive, UK Green Building Council and Chairman, Zero Carbon Hub As concerns over climate change and resource constraints grow, many cities across the world are trying to achieve a low carbon transition. Although new zero carbon buildings are an important part of the story, in existing cities the transformation of the current building stock and urban infrastructure must inevitably form the main focus for transitioning to a low carbon and sustainable future by 2050. Urban Retrofitting for Sustainability brings together interdisciplinary research contributions from leading international experts to focus on key issues such as systems innovation, financing tools, governance, energy, and water management. The chapters consider not only the knowledge and technical tools available, but looks forward to how they can be implemented in real cities by 2050.

Author : Andrew Scott,Eran Ben-Joseph
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136580307

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ReNew Town by Andrew Scott,Eran Ben-Joseph Pdf

ReNew Town puts forth an innovative vision of performative design and planning for low-carbon sustainable development, and illustrates practicable strategies for balancing environmental systems with urban infrastructure and new housing prototypes. To date, much of the discourse on the design of sustainable communities and ‘eco-cities’ has been premised on using previously undeveloped land. In contrast, this book and the project it showcases focus on the retrofitting and adaptation of an existing environment – a more common problem, given the extent of the world’s already-built infrastructure. Employing a ‘research through design’ model of inquiry, the book focuses on large-scale housing developments – especially those built around the world between the 1960s and the early 1980s – with the aim of understanding how best to reinvent them. At the center of the book is Tama New Town, a planned community outside Tokyo that faces a range of challenges, such as an aging population, the deterioration of homes and buildings, and economic stagnation. The book begins by outlining a series of principles that structure the ecological and energy goals for the community. It then develops prototypical solutions for designing, building and retrofitting neighborhoods. The intent is that these prototypes could be applied to similar urban conditions around the world. ReNew Town is the product of a collaborative design research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) School of Architecture and Planning, and Japan’s Sekisui House LTD.

Author : Harriet Bulkeley,Vanesa Castán Broto,Mike Hodson,Simon Marvin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136883279

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Cities and Low Carbon Transitions by Harriet Bulkeley,Vanesa Castán Broto,Mike Hodson,Simon Marvin Pdf

Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale reorganisation in the way societies produce and use energy. Cities are critical in this transition because they concentrate social and economic activities that produce climate change related emissions. At the same time, cities are increasingly recognised as sources of opportunities for climate change mitigation. Whether, how and why low carbon transitions in urban systems take place in response to climate change will therefore be decisive for the success of global mitigation efforts. As a result, climate change increasingly features as a critical issue in the management of urban infrastructure and in urbanisation policies. Cities and Low Carbon Transitions presents a ground-breaking analysis of the role of cities in low carbon socio-technical transitions. Insights from the fields of urban studies and technological transitions are combined to examine how, why and with what implications cities bring about low carbon transitions. The book outlines the key concepts underpinning theories of socio-technical transition and assesses its potential strengths and limits for understanding the social and technological responses to climate change that are emerging in cities. It draws on a diverse range of examples including world cities, ordinary cities and transition towns, from North America, Europe, South Africa and China, to provide evidence that expectations, aspirations and plans to undertake purposive socio-technical transitions are emerging in different urban contexts. This collection adds to existing literature on cities and energy transitions and introduces critical questions about power and social interests, lock-in and development trajectories, social equity and economic development, and socio-technical change in cities. The book addresses academics, policy makers, practitioners and researchers interested in the development of systemic responses in cities to curb climate change.

Author : Nicholas Low,Brendon Gleeson,Ray Green,Darko Radovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136752995

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The Green City by Nicholas Low,Brendon Gleeson,Ray Green,Darko Radovic Pdf

A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.The book considers - and answers - three questions: What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most

Author : Francesco Pomponi,Bernardino D'Amico
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3039438166

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Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities by Francesco Pomponi,Bernardino D'Amico Pdf

The built environment is at a turning point. With projected trends in population growth and urbanization, global demand for new floor area is expected to rise sharply. This will put unprecedented pressure on the availability of natural resources and incur greenhouse gas emissions and energy demand. Such environmental stressors risk driving the world away from the UN Sustainable Development Goals, but equally represent an opportunity for just sustainability transitions. The contents of this book aim to address some of these grand challenges from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Low-energy architecture, low-carbon cities and the often-forgotten sustainability of refugee settlements are some of the themes dealt with by the authors.

Author : Oleg Golubchikov,Anna Badyina
Publisher : Un-Habitat
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Ecological houses
ISBN : 9211324882

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Sustainable Housing for Sustainable Cities by Oleg Golubchikov,Anna Badyina Pdf

Author : Jeroen van der Heijden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108415361

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Innovations in Urban Climate Governance by Jeroen van der Heijden Pdf

Analyses voluntary programs for sustainable buildings and cities, a prominent strategy to mitigate climate change.