The sustainable city : urban regeneration and sustainability

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The sustainable city : urban regeneration and sustainability

editors, Ü. Mander, C.A. Brebbia, E. Tiezzi

(WIT transactions on ecology and the environment, v. 93, 129)

WIT, c2006-

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The sustainable city IV : urban regeneration and sustainability

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v. 4: "This book contains most of the papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability (The Sustainable City) which took place in Tallin, Estonia in 2006."

Editors of v. 6: C.A. Brebbia, S. Hernández, E. Tiezzi

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

4 ISBN 9781845640408

Description

Urban areas produce a series of environmental problems arising from the consumption of natural resources and the consequent generation of waste and pollution. These problems contribute to the development of social and economic imbalances. All these problems, which continue to grow in our society, require new solutions. This book addresses the many inter-related aspects of the urban environment from transport and mobility to social exclusion and crime prevention. Publishing papers from the Fourth International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability, the volume includes topics such as: Strategy and Development; Planning; Development and Management; Environmental Management; Planning Issues; Socio-economic Issues; The community and the City; Cultural Heritage; Architectural Issues; Traffic and Transportation; Land Use and Management; Public Safety; Conservation of Resources; Sustainable Transportation and Transport Integration; Depleted Ecological Resources; Environmental Pollution; Energy Resources Systems.

Table of Contents

  • Section 1: Architectural issues The use of greenrooves for the mitigation of environmental problems in urban areas
  • Urban architecture for the advancement of small-scale township enterprises: relevance of the scholarship
  • International assessment of the environmental performance of housing, and prospects for sustainable cities
  • Thermal characterisation of bio-based building materials Section 2: Cultural heritage Sustainable reconstruction and planning strategies for Afghan cities: conservation in cultural and environmental heritage
  • History integrated urban transformation
  • Historical centers: sustainable economic spaces, management for sustainable projects Section 3: Planning issues Sustainability in cities: the green areas and climatic comfort as fundamental parameters
  • Speed in the sustainable city
  • Sustainable regional development and provincial development planning: the case of Bolu
  • Valuing the effects of urban road-network projects: a methodological proposal
  • Mobile positioning in sustainability studies: the social positioning method in studying commuter's activity spaces in Tallinn
  • Planning with PlaceMaker: complex indices for sustainable projects
  • Green-switch: reducing the conflict between the industrial and the residential interface Section 4: Planning, development and management KiwiGrowTM: a community and environmental health framework for sustainable development
  • On the way to Gigapolises: can global urban development become sustainable?
  • Seeking a unified urban systems theory
  • What the "new Istanbul" shaped by capital makes one think...
  • Use of atmospheric modelling for the territorial planning of technological structures
  • Urban regeneration of historic towns: regeneration strategies for Pauni, India
  • Environmental policy integration in urban spatial planning: the approach of Rotterdam
  • How many light globes does it take to change a footprint?
  • Spatial-temporal changes of regional sustainability: an empirical study in Taiwan
  • A critical analysis of regional planning in South Africa in the 21st century Section 5: Strategy and development Entropy and the city
  • IRMA: a European project for a sustainable City Concept
  • When does stacking become vertical sprawl?
  • Can elevated pedestrian walkways be sustainable?
  • Structuring the World down to cities and sustainable air sharing
  • Strategic (spatial) planning approach in Turkey: new expectations
  • Anthropocentrism and sustainable development: oxymoron or symbiosis?
  • Strategic urban design from a sustainable tourism perspective: a case study from the city of Guangzhou, China Section 6: Land use and management The ecological footprint of building construction
  • From Brownfield to blue sky: Sydney Harbour's renaissance
  • A study on the future of urban models in the third millennium: a sustainable urban model for Kyrykkale, Turkey Section 7: Environmental management Characterization of particulate matter from urban, industrial and rural environments
  • Life cycle guarantors of sustainability
  • Environmental management and numerical models: examples from long-term ecological research on a real case study
  • Recycling programs in partnership with scavenger associations as a sustainability factor in Metropolitan Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • On energy requirements and potential energy savings in Italian hospital buildings
  • Wind and environmental effects on overhead high voltage transmission lines
  • Capacity building for effective municipal environmental management in South Africa
  • Minimization of adverse environmental effects of a sports complex through implementation of green management
  • Strategic spatial planning and environmental management: the impact of Guanabara Bay Cleaning Programme in Rio de Janeiro
  • Rational environmental goals and sustainable planning Section 8: Energy resources Environmental accounting of buildings: outcomes from the emergy analysis
  • The emergy synthesis for the Province of Pescara (Italy) and strategic choices for a sustainable development
  • Sustainability of energy use in Estonian settlements and regions
  • Emergy approach for the environmental sustainability assessment of the urban water system of Genoa (NW Italy)
  • Hydrogen city
  • Final architecture diploma projects in the analysis of the UPC buildings energy performance Section 9: Sustainable transportation and transport integration Making liveable and sustainable major urban streets: the case of Begin Road in Tel-Aviv - Jaffa
  • Development of sustainable traffic planning: analysis of Danish planning visions 2005 and 2015
  • The ethics of mobility: a framework for assessing mobility paradigms
  • Relevant aspects of automobile user behaviour: a study under the sustainable consumption concept in the transportation sector
  • Effects of a non-motorized transport infrastructure development in the Bucharest metropolitan area
  • Is the pedestrian city relevant to the sustainable city? Mobility, urbanization and health
  • Evaluating walking promotion policies with regard to mobility representations, appropriations and practices in public space Section 10: Traffic and transportation Suburbanisation and commuting modes in the Tallinn metropolitan area
  • Assessment of the sustainability of the street network in Kaunas city
  • Analysis of transport modes in the urban environment: an application for a sustainable mobility system
  • First study on mobility for a medium size town: Ciudad Real, a Spanish experience
  • Sustainable urban transport development: a modelling approach Section 11: The community and the city The burglar as a space explorer in his own neighbourhood
  • New Urbanism and Chicago
  • Community-based quality of life indicators for urban areas as derived in Galway City, Ireland
  • Space for community - the study of resident involvement in neighbourhood space management
  • The neighbourhood imperative in the sustainable city
  • Linking perceptions of health to neighbourhood environment in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal
  • Community in the city? Social exclusion in neighbourhoods in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  • Sustainability knowledge, attitude and practices of Malaysians
  • Community participation in urban renewal projects: experiences and challenges of the case of Johannesburg, South Africa Section 12: Socio-economic issues Small and medium-sized enterprises, employment generation and regional development in Estonia
  • Sustainable Scotland: putting environmental justice at the heart of the policy agenda?
  • Urban environmental quality: perceptions and measures in three UK cities Section 13: Public safety Pedestrian safety at urban crossings in Estonia
  • Towards an integral accessible public area in the city
  • The survey of drinking water supply in Estonia from the point of view of public health
Volume

6 ISBN 9781845644321

Description

This book contains papers presented at The Sustainable City 2010 conference, which was the sixth edition of the International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability. That event followed the very successful meetings held previously in Rio (2000), Segovia (2002), Siena (2004), Tallinn (2006) and Skiathos (2008) and proved one more time the necessity of this scientific forum to discuss the challenging situations that the urban areas are confronting nowadays. Innovative tools are required for understanding the high complexity of contemporary cities. It is urgent to promote a more scientific approach to urban studies, inspired by Prigogine's dissipative structures, and to highlight relations between different systems and between systems and the environment. This series of conferences addresses the multidisciplinary aspects of urban planning, a result of the increasing size of the cities, the amount of resources and services required and the complexity of modern society.

Table of Contents

  • Section 1: Planning, development and management Expansion of metropolitan areas, land use and sustainability indicators: the case of Valencia (Spain)
  • The identification of city development types: a case study in central Taiwan
  • Ecourbanistica: toward a new sustainable town planning
  • The government and urban structure unsustainability in Iran
  • Transition factors analysis of human settlement
  • Urban maintenance for sustainable cities
  • Relieving road congestion through motorway concessions in Moscow
  • Predicting the outcome of plans: retrospect and prospects of the use of models in planning Section 2: Landscape planning and design An innovative survey of urban systems dynamics: the evidence of the MoTo project
  • Integrating thermodynamics and kinetics of urban systems for regional studies
  • Natural infrastructure in urban and planning strategies in arid zones: case studies from Egypt
  • Modelling skin temperature of a human exercising in an outdoor environment Section 3: The community and the city Achieving socio-cultural sustainability in the design of the government-sponsored single family houses in the UAE: the case of Al Ain
  • Social mobility: the influence of the neighbourhood
  • The role of the ideological dimension in developing an anatomical approach to urban morphology: exploration of a new analytical method of open spaces network
  • Integration of technical universities into the learning networks of sustainable cities Section 4: Urban strategies Tasks of local public services for environmental protection
  • Sustainable urban life in skyscraper cities of the 21st century
  • Biomimicry and circular metabolism for the cities of the future
  • Evaluation of urban planning strategies with a versatile urban growth model
  • Eco-cities: a global survey 2009
  • Case study of mixed-use high-rise location at the Greater Paris scale
  • Urban filaments: from passageways of leisure-oriented space to emergent urban form
  • Establishing International Roughness Indices for a dense urban area - case study in Washington, DC
  • Promoting cycling: development aspects in two different cities, Copenhagen and Patras
  • Urban flood mitigation: sustainable options
  • The benefits of non-motorized transport in the city of Rio de Janeiro
  • The highway and the American city
  • Strategic environmental assessment for the growth of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
  • Some Eastern Europe experiences with environmental aspects of urban plans Section 5: Urban-rural relationships Approaches to analyzing the rural-urban interface: comprehensive development views from town and countryside
  • Suburbia as a battlefield between society, environment and planning strategies
  • Emissions inventory analysis for an urban (industrial)-rural (agricultural) environment
  • Guarantee of water availability and change in land use in the southern coastal area of the community of Valencia (Spain)
  • Conflicts over water and land use on the coastline of the region of Valencia: agriculture versus the urban-tourist city Section 6: Architectural issues Focusing on natural elements in the early design process, new potentials for architects?
  • Internal space layout and functionality as a major aspect influencing visual analysis for environmental and urban systems
  • Dense housing and urban sustainable development Section 7: Cultural heritage issues Reuse of historic naval hospitals
  • Sustainability of spatial context of historical core areas in Indonesian cities
  • Sustainable city planning: preserving historical objects Section 8: Waste management Optimization of C&D waste management by the application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology: the case of the Municipality of Rome, Italy
  • Evaluation of pay-by-use (PBU) domestic waste charging systems in Ireland
  • Working scheme for safe management of construction and demolition wastes containing hazardous substancesMain issues related to the construction and demolition waste management in Romania Section 9: Case studies Urban expansion and change of land uses: city of Mexicali 1990-2005
  • Beyond the rhetoric of sprawl: storylines and the discursive construction of the sustainable city
  • Kartal urban regeneration project: challenges, opportunities and prospects for the future
  • Urban activity spaces: the case of a post-Soviet neighbourhood in Riga
  • Sustainable housing for sustainable cities: case study of Bucharest
  • Investigating the sustainability of water management in Alwahat, Libya
  • PCB-contamination in a school building indoors
  • From critical to carbon neutral, grassroots sustainable urban planning
  • Local use of front and backyard medicinal species - a comparative study in six Latin American cities Section 10: Environmental management Sustainable urbanization in the context of environmental chemistry and life cycle issues
  • GIS development for urban flood resilience
  • From a common concept to common experimentation? The water framework directive's impact on water management in Europe
  • An evaluation of road traffic emissions around Galician cities Section 11: Energy issues Simulink(R) modelling of a kite wind generator
  • Assessment of energy efficiency in street lighting design

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    BA77804310
  • ISBN
    • 1845640403
    • 9781845644321
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Southampton, UK ; Boston
  • Pages/Volumes
    v.
  • Size
    24 cm
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