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Urban and Transit Planning
This book covers a critical topic, including green building design, sustainable urban mobility, renewable energy integration, and the use of advanced technologies to minimize environmental impact. Through comprehensive analysis and practical case studies, it highlights how thoughtful design and planning can transform urban areas into resilient, eco-friendly spaces. Also, it explores the challenges and opportunities associated with implementing sustainable practices in urban planning and architectural design. It highlights successful projects from around the world, demonstrating innovative solutions that address issues. Aimed at professionals, researchers, and students, this book provides valuable insights and actionable strategies for fostering sustainable growth. It serves as an essential guide for anyone committed to creating cities and buildings that not only meet the needs of the present but also safeguard the well-being of future generations. Through its comprehensive coverage and forward-thinking approach, it inspires a new era of urban transformation focused on sustainability and resilience.
Urban and Transit Planning (Vol 1): Strategies, Innovations and Climate Management
This book explores aspects of creating cities and structures with a focus on sustainability. It provides an analysis of contemporary methodologies, technologies, and principles essential for designing urban environments and buildings that significantly reduce environmental impact. Moreover, it emphasizes the importance of energy efficiency, resource conservation, and the integration of green spaces to enhance the quality of life for urban dwellers. Covering a broad spectrum of topics, from sustainable urban mobility to green architecture and smart city initiatives, this book serves as an invaluable resource for professionals, researchers, and students. Furthermore, it aims to inspire and guide those dedicated to developing a sustainable future through innovative and responsible urban planning and architectural design practices.
Whose Urban Renaissance?
The desire of governments for a 'renaissance' of their cities is a defining feature of contemporary urban policy. From Melbourne and Toronto to Johannesburg and Istanbul, government policies are successfully attracting investment and middle-class populations to their inner areas. Regeneration - or gentrification as it can often become - produces winners and losers. There is a substantial literature on the causes and unequal effects of gentrification, and on the global and local conditions driving processes of dis- and re-investment. But there is little examination of the actual strategies used to achieve urban regeneration - what were their intents, did they 'succeed' (and if not why not) an...
Urban and Transit Planning
This book incorporates a wealth of research focused on the more and more urgent challenges that urban planning and architectural design all over the world must cope with: from climate change to environmental decay, from an increasing urban population to an increasing poverty. In detail, this book aims at providing innovative approaches, tool and case study examples that, in line with the agenda of 2030, may better drive human settlements toward a sustainable, inclusive and resilient development. To this aim, the book includes heterogeneous regional perspectives and different methodologies and suggests development models capable of limiting further urban growth and re-shaping existing cities to improve both environmental quality and the overall quality of life of people, also taking account the more and more close relationships among urban planning and technological innovation.
Reinventing Modern Architecture in Greece
This book examines the connection between the politics of the Marshall Plan and urban planning and identifies the key players, such as the Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis and the Italian industrialist Adriano Olivetti. It also explores the architects of the Mataroa mission, who played a vital role in the cross-fertilisation between France and Greece, and the role of travel to Greece for architects during the 19th century. This book delves into the work of Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Adriano Olivetti, Alison and Peter Smithson, Iannis Xenakis, Takis Zenetos, Henri Lefebvre, Cornelius Castoriadis, Aris Konstantinidis, Dimitris Pikionis and others. It sheds light on how...
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