The sustainable city XV
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The sustainable city XV
（WIT transactions on ecology and the environment, v. 253）
WIT Press, c2022
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"... the 15th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability (Sustainable City 2021), organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology. This conference was originally scheduled to take place in Bilbao, in Spain, but subsequently had to be held online due to SARS-Covid pandemic."--Pref
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Includes bibliographical references and author index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Section 1: Urban strategies Climate-neutral and smart cities: A European policies' overview
- Planning with nature: Sustainable urban prototypes for Portuense district in Rome, Italy
- Growing up: An urban design approach based on increased density
- Exploring an integrated pathway for sustainable urban development of refugee camp cities and informal settlements
- Hacking the next Mexican territories: How to face the "crisis" of the territories and the gated-communities' system
- Interaction between creative clusters and the built environment: Digital technologies versus urban buzz
- Urban planning revolution for increasing pedestrian mobility in Lisbon, Portugal Section 2: Planning, development and management Mental maps of Lisbon metropolis (Portugal) as a teaching strategy in urban geography
- Planning sustainability in higher education: Three case studies
- ITACA protocol: A possible path to sustainability in the governance of the building process
- Teaching and researching sustainable urban development processes through simulation
- Delivering national economic infrastructure in South Africa: A review of strategic integrated project #3
- Environmental assessment and tourist carrying capacity for the development of geosites in the framework of geotourism, Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Quality affordable housing concept: Case studies in Mehr, Iran, Dharavi, India, Al-Sharq, Jordan and Bashayer Al-Khair, Egypt
- Aspects of the public domain in regenerating waterfronts: A case study of Belgrade's waterfront, Serbia Section 3: Circular economy at the city level Circular economy in Chile: Background, law and opportunities
- Regional resurgence of wool
- Evaluating global municipal solid waste management efficiency from a circular economy point of view
- Sustainable design thinking and social innovation for beating barriers to circular economy Section 4: Urban metabolism Space needed to make a city sustainable and necessary changes to reach it: The case of Germany
- Water sustainability: A case study using social and economic metabolism perspective
- Urban metabolism as an approach to achieve resource efficient communities: A case study of Al Shakhloba, Burullus Lake, Kafr El Sheikh, Egypt
- Greening the grey: Implementing green urban solutions, as adaptation response to climate change, in a pilot project in Legazpi, Basque Country, Spain Section 5: The community and the city Measuring participation: A comparative study of citizen engagement processes in urban planning
- Potential of the public space to promote environmental behavior
- Property management of affordable housing: A resilience perspective Section 6: Social, cultural and economic aspects Sustainability of housing typologies in historic sites
- Towards socially sustainable waterfront urban regeneration: The case of Zayed Port design, Abu Dhabi
- Challenges of Turkish heritage impact assessment practices: Case of Canal Istanbul, Turkey
- Investigation of the sense of community levels: Variables, dimensions and spatial analysis approach
- Impact of lighting on children's learning environment: A literature review Section 7: Architectural issues Future of dwelling: The advantages of prefabrication in alleviating the residential crisis
- Responsive facades design using nanomaterials for optimizing buildings' energy performance
- Residential architecture: Evaluation of tenants' satisfaction in private culture
- Influencing factors on cooling demand of high-rise buildings in hot/humid climates: A review
- Re-envisioning infrastructures, re-arming sustainable (unconventional) public spaces: Free design exercises for further improvement of the urban regeneration project for the Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca district of Mexico City, Mexico Section 8: The S3 city: Smart, sustainable and safe Municipal IoT implementation strategy for Brasilia, Brazil: Smart city guidelines at the local level
- Education for sustainable development: A stakeholder analysis between a Chinese and Sino-foreign university Section 9: Urban transportation and planning Estimating and updating gap acceptance parameters for HCM6th roundabout capacity model applications
- Retrofitting public transport systems to reduce health hazards from pandemics
- Study on effectiveness of Shinkansen Station catchment area: A case study of Fukushima Shinkansen station, Japan Section 10: Environmental management Approaches to the assessment of ecological and economic efficiency of investment projects: Brief review and recommendations for improvements
- Smart happy city
- Adjusted energy benchmarking system under COVID conditions: Dubai as case study
- Socio-economic models to assess and policy instruments to steer the impact of nature-based solutions: A review
- Examining the effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns on reducing pollutant concentrations in US urban areas: Evidence from Los Angeles, Seattle and New York City
- Public knowledge and perception of climate change and global warming in the context of environmental challenges and policies in Saudi Arabia Section 11: Waste management Proposal for the management of solid waste generated in a university campus: A case study
- Solid waste management: A case study of Phuket Old Town Night Market, Thailand Section 12: Urban agriculture Potential threats of peri-urban Tuong-mango production and policy implications for healthy agriculture for healthy ecosystems
- Urban agriculture as a sustainable option for solid waste management: Case study of an Indian city
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