Sustainable Urban Environments

Author : Ellen M. van Bueren,Hein van Bohemen,Laure Itard,Henk Visscher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400712942

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Sustainable Urban Environments by Ellen M. van Bueren,Hein van Bohemen,Laure Itard,Henk Visscher Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814466622

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Towards a Liveable and Sustainable Urban Environment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marco Ragazzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1771884169

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Improving Urban Environments by Marco Ragazzi Pdf

13. Urban Ecosystem Health Assessment and Its Application in Management: A Multi-Scale Perspective

Author : Kevin Thwaites,Sergio Porta,Ombretta Romice,Mark Greaves
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134157686

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Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design by Kevin Thwaites,Sergio Porta,Ombretta Romice,Mark Greaves Pdf

Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design provides the analytical tools and practical methodologies that can be employed for sustainable and long-term solutions to the design and management of urban environments.

Author : F Zeman
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780857096463

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Metropolitan Sustainability by F Zeman Pdf

Global populations have grown rapidly in recent decades, leading to ever increasing demands for shelter, resources, energy and utilities. Coupled with the worldwide need to achieve lower impact buildings and conservation of resources, the need to achieve sustainability in urban environments has never been more acute. This book critically reviews the fundamental issues and applied science, engineering and technology that will enable all cities to achieve a greater level of metropolitan sustainability, and assist nations in meeting the needs of their growing urban populations. Part one introduces key issues related to metropolitan sustainability, including the use of both urban metabolism and benefit cost analysis. Part two focuses on urban land use and the environmental impact of the built environment. The urban heat island effect, redevelopment of brownfield sites and urban agriculture are discussed in depth, before part three goes on to explore urban air pollution and emissions control. Urban water resources, reuse and management are explored in part four, followed by a study of urban energy supply and management in part five. Solar, wind and bioenergy, the role of waste-to-energy systems in the urban infrastructure, and smart energy for cities are investigated. Finally, part six considers sustainable urban development, transport and planning. With its distinguished editor and international team of expert contributors, Metropolitan sustainability is an essential resource for low-impact building engineers, sustainability consultants and architects, town and city planners, local/municipal authorities, and national and non-governmental bodies, and provides a thorough overview for academics of all levels in this field. Critically reviews the fundamental issues and applied science, engineering and technology that will enable all cities to achieve a greater level of metropolitan sustainability Will assist nations in meeting the needs of their growing urban populations Chapters discuss urban land use, the environmental impact of the build environment, the urban heat island effect, urban air pollution and emissions control, among other topics

Author : Emilia Motoasca,Avinash Kumar Agarwal,Hilde Breesch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789811332845

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Energy Sustainability in Built and Urban Environments by Emilia Motoasca,Avinash Kumar Agarwal,Hilde Breesch Pdf

This book covers different aspects of energy sustainability in residential buildings and neighborhoods, starting from the construction and design aspects, and moving on to HVAC systems and lighting, and the applications, harvesting, use and storage of renewable energy. The volume focuses on smart and sustainable use of energy, discussing both the technological advancements and the economic, social and environmental impacts. Novel approaches to recycling of waste and materials in the context of residential buildings are also presented. This volume will be of interest to researchers and policy makers working in the fields of renewable energy, sustainable design and city planning.

Author : Leonie Pearson,Peter Newton,Peter Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135071455

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Resilient Sustainable Cities by Leonie Pearson,Peter Newton,Peter Roberts Pdf

Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world’s people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, products we consume, houses we live in and technology we use will all determine how sustainable our cities will be. Bridging the increasing divide between cross-disciplinary academic insights and the latest practical innovations, Resilient Sustainable Cities provides an integrated approach for long term future planning within the context of the city as a whole system. In the next 30 years cities will face their biggest challenges yet, as a result of long term, or ‘slow burn’ issues: population growth will stretch to the breaking point urban infrastructure and service capacity; resource scarcity, such as peak oil; potable water and food security, will dramatically change what we consume and how; environmental pressures will change how we live and where and; shifting demographic preferences will exacerbate urban pressures. Cities can’t keep doing what they’ve always done and cope – we need to change current urban development to achieve resilient, sustainable cities. Resilient Sustainable Cities provides practical and conceptual insights for practitioners, researchers and students on how to deliver cities which are resilient to ‘slow burn’ issues and achieve sustainability. The book is organized around three overarching themes: pathways to the future innovation to deliver the future leadership and governance issues The book includes a variety of perspectives conveyed through international case studies and examples of cities that have transformed for a sustainable future, exploring their successes and failures to ensure that readers are left with ideas on how to turn their city into a resilient sustainable city for the future.

Author : Israa H. Mahmoud,Eugenio Morello,Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira,Davide Geneletti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030895259

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Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Urban Planning by Israa H. Mahmoud,Eugenio Morello,Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira,Davide Geneletti Pdf

Urban greening policies and measures have recently shown a high potential impact on the design and reshaping of the built environment, especially in urban regeneration processes. This book provides insights on analytical methods, planning strategies and shared governance tools for successfully integrating Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the urban planning practice. The selected contributions present real-life application cases, in which the mainstreaming of NBS are investigated according to two main challenges: the planning and designing of physical and spatial integration of NBS in cities on one side, and the implementation of suitable shared governance models and co-creation pathways on the other. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Pierre Laconte,Chris Gossop
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857729576

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Sustainable Cities by Pierre Laconte,Chris Gossop Pdf

Sustainable Cities is about the challenges faced by our urban environments and how these can be met. Examining the built environment at three levels of observation - individual buildings, urban neighbourhoods, and entire cities and towns, the first part of the book reveals the scale of the task. The second part of the book offer a critical assessment of the techniques used to assess urban development, including the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions, ecological footprint analysis, and the measurement of urban biodiversity, where different approaches can yield significantly different results. It concludes with an alternative approach to greenhouse gases, making the case for them to be seen as a resource rather than as a liability. In the final part, case studies of best practice are presented. With contributions from a range of leading international specialists, Sustainable Cities will be essential reading for academics and professionals in urban and municipal planning, environmental policy and planning, architecture, urban geography, climate change, energy resources and environmental science and technology.

Author : Dimitri Devuyst
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0231518021

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How Green Is the City? by Dimitri Devuyst Pdf

This book deals with practical ways to reach a more sustainable state in urban areas through such tools as strategic environmental assessment, sustainability assessment, direction analysis, baseline setting and progress measurement, sustainability targets, and ecological footprint analysis.

Author : Adam Ritchie,Randall Thomas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317723684

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Sustainable Urban Design by Adam Ritchie,Randall Thomas Pdf

By the end of the twenty-first century it is thought that three-quarters of the world’s population will be urban; our future is in cities. Making these cities healthy, vibrant and sustainable is an exceptional challenge which this book addresses. It sets out some of the basic principles of the design of our future cities and, through a series of carefully-selected case studies from leading designers’ experience, illustrates how these ideas can be put into practice. Building on the first edition's original format of design guidance and case studies, this new edition updates the ideas and techniques resulting from further research and practice by the contributors. This book emphasises the enormous progress made towards exciting new designs that integrate good design with resource efficiency.

Author : Mike Hodson,Simon Marvin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135114183

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After Sustainable Cities? by Mike Hodson,Simon Marvin Pdf

A sustainable city has been defined in many ways. Yet, the most common understanding is a vision of the city that is able to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Central to this vision are two ideas: cities should meet social needs, especially of the poor, and not exceed the ability of the global environment to meet needs. After Sustainable Cities critically reviews what has happened to these priorities and asks whether these social commitments have been abandoned in a period of austerity governance and climate change and replaced by a darker and unfair city. This book provides the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the new eco-logics reshaping conventional sustainable cities discourse and environmental priorities of cities in both the global north and south. The dominant discourse on sustainable cities, with a commitment to intergenerational equity, social justice and global responsibility, has come under increasing pressure. Under conditions of global ecological change, international financial and economic crisis and austerity governance new eco-logics are entering the urban sustainability lexicon – climate change, green growth, smart growth, resilience and vulnerability, ecological security. This book explores how these new eco-logics reshape our understanding of equity, justice and global responsibility, and how these more technologically and economically driven themes resonate and dissonate with conventional sustainable cities discourse. This book provides a warning that a more technologically driven and narrowly constructed economic agenda is driving ecological policy and weakening previous commitment to social justice and equity. After Sustainable Cities brings together leading researchers to provide a critical examination of these new logics and identity what sort of city is now emerging, as well as consider the longer-term implication on sustainable cities research and policy.

Author : S. R. Curwell,Mark Deakin,Martin Symes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415322154

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Sustainable Urban Development: The framework and protocols for environmental assessment by S. R. Curwell,Mark Deakin,Martin Symes Pdf

This book examines the models of sustainable development and sets out a framework for analysing urban development and the sustainability issues which can arise.

Author : Rachel Cooper,Graeme Evans,Christopher Boyko
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1444318683

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Designing Sustainable Cities by Rachel Cooper,Graeme Evans,Christopher Boyko Pdf

This book offers practical solutions to achieving sustainable urbandesign and development, and helps designers communicate thesesolutions effectively to planners, developers and policy makers. Addressing sustainability issues in relation to the design andplanning of the urban environment is a complex, multi-disciplinaryissue and solutions never arrive from a single perspective. Theauthors use design as a facilitating factor to consider when and bywhom decisions that contribute to sustainability are made, andthrough three major city-centre case studies - London, Manchesterand Sheffield – they consider social, environmental andeconomic factors and examine their relationship to thedecision-making process. Designing Sustainable Cities begins by identifying thekey processes and lead decision-makers. The following chaptersdevelop an understanding of the dimensions of sustainability,presenting the tools by which the dimensions can be analysed. Laterchapters illustrate the trade-offs and the relationships betweenthe dimensions of sustainability - with case study examples - aswell as the use of IT in making design decisions. Finally, the bookmakes recommendations for future approaches to the design,development and on-going management of urban environments. Designing Sustainable Cities covers: latest research data on the urban environment and theinteraction between social, economic and environmental issues methods of understanding the context in which urban designtakes place guidance on the codes of practice process maps to help understand the context, make trade-offsand develop design solutions that allow for change methods for testing the consequences of design proposals andmonitoring outcomes.

Author : Kimberly Etingoff
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781315342252

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Sustainable Cities by Kimberly Etingoff Pdf

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Two trends come together in the world’s cities to make urban sustainability a critical issue today. First, greater and greater numbers of people are living in urban areas—and are projected to do so for the foreseeable future. Additionally, cities contribute to climate change in a significant way and must make systemic changes to mitigate and adapt to climate change effects. Urban planners face serious challenges in enhancing sustainability but also have an important set of tools available for creating innovative solutions. This book adds to the conversation about the place of urban planning in the creation and maintenance of sustainable cities.