The Sustainable City III: Urban Regeneration and Sustainability

by N. Marchettini (Editor), C. A. Brebbia (Editor), L. C. Wadhwa (Editor), E. Tiezzi (Editor)

Overview

Representing most of the presentations at the conference, 70 papers cover strategy and development; planning, development, and management; environmental management; cultural heritage and architectural issues; land use and management; restructuring and renewal; spatial configuration and landscaping; socio-economic issues; the community and the city; public safety and security; the conservation of resources; traffic and transportation; and urban waste management. Among the many case studies are slum development in Ahvaz with an emphasis on the All-E-Saffi sector (Iran), the administrative and institutional set-up for environmental management in Malaysia as compared with Britain and the US, and the reuse of historic buildings in North Cyprus. There is no subject index. The US office of WIT Press is Computational Mechanics. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853127205
Publisher:	WIT Press
Publication date:	01/28/2004
Series:	Advances in Architecture Ser. , #18
Pages:	748
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Section 1	Strategy and development
	Emergy flows and sustainable indicators: the strategic environmental assessment for a master plan	3
	Existing infrastructures: a restriction for real sustainable development?	11
	Sustainable high-density environments	21
	Developing the urban metabolism approach into a new urban metabolic model	31
	Planning within a global sight: the structural plan of Ravenna and the emergy storage assessment	41
Section 2	Planning, development and management
	Crises and innovation in sustainable city planning	53
	Understanding developers' perspectives in sustainable urban design	63
	Urban planning motivations and sustainable development of the territory	73
	The Total Planning Doctrine and Putrajaya development	81
	Climate indicators for cities	91
	Slum development in Ahvaz with emphasis on the All-E-Saffi sector	103
	Ningbo--A new sustainable city for China	111
Section 3	Environmental management
	The ecological footprint analysis for the Province of Venice and the relevance of tourism	123
	Sustainable development at local level and "anthropic resilience": sustainability indicators from the SPIn-ECO project	133
	Using satellite data for a territorial indicator in Tuscany	143
	Environmental consequences of rapid urbanization in warm, arid lands: case study of Phoenix, Arizona (USA)	155
	Certification as a tool for environmental management	165
	Administrative and institutional set up for environmental management in Malaysia as compared with the U.K. and U.S.	171
	Environmental crises in the Metropolises of Iran	179
	The sustainable management of resources in the mitigation of the risk of desertification in the Apulia region	189
Section 4	Cultural heritage and architectural issues
	Certification of building eco-compatibility and durability: application to new and existing buildings	203
	Complexity and sustainability: relief and representation of the new urban identity	211
	Humber Centre for Excellence in the Built Environment	223
	Deciphering urban cultural heritage, community and the city	233
	Strategies for building pathology reports in a rehabilitation process: In the old city centre of Coimbra	247
	Wooden towns--cultural heritage in decay	257
	Re-use of historic buildings in North Cyprus	267
	Growing art and museums in Miami: some success stories	277
	The influence of architectural culture on the energetic skills of less developed countries	283
	Sustainability of the historical Ottoman village Cumalikizik in Turkey	293
Section 5	Land use and management
	The 'park of the 21st century': agriculture in the city	303
	The role of lagoon in an emergy territorial evaluation for Venice	315
	Factors leading to buildings being demolished and probability of remainder	325
	The role of urban parks for the sustainability of cities	335
	Sustainable development of South Africa's rural areas	345
Section 6	Restructuring and renewal
	Sustainable urban regenerative process and densification: theory and practice	357
	The search for the most eco-efficient strategies for sustainable housing transformations	369
	From depopulation to repopulation: the shift of population development in central city areas	379
Section 7	Spatial configuration and landscaping
	Landscape and rural territories in sustainable contemporary cities: the Italian case in Tuscany	393
	A study on the regional landscape planning framework on the relationships between urban and rural areas: case study of Tokachi region, Hokkaido, Japan	401
	Configurations and urban sustainability	411
Section 8	Socio-economic issues
	Social impact assessment in urban planning	423
	Sustainable development on the periphery: responding to problems of socio-economic marginalisation	431
	How to integrate social and environmental aspects in housing and urban policies: some experiences from France and Germany	443
	The role of retail commerce in the sustainability of cities	453
	Current trends in spatial-economic restructuring in urban South Africa	463
	Creative communities: the arts, social responsibility and sustainable planning and development	473
	Economic-environmental scenario simulations to measure sustainable development in Taiwan	483
Section 9	The community and the city
	The merging of community sustainability with enhanced environmental performance: a local government case study	495
	Educating communities for sustainability: living smart in the City of Fremantle, Western Australia	505
	Proper planning and citizen participation as prerequisites for the successful design of a modern tramway system: lessons learnt from the Athens Tramway example	515
	Community friendly arterial: redesigning urban arterials to support redevelopment initiatives	529
Section 10	Public safety and security
	Risk assessment for a high-pressure natural gas pipeline in an urban area	541
	An approach to assess and manage the risk of an urban LPG station in Korea	549
	Ampacity of buried cables in trenches filled with recycled concrete	559
	Reduction of magnetic pollution in urban areas by an active field cancellation	569
	Underground power cables in urban areas: a simple technique for the passive shielding of the magnetic field	581
Section 11	Conservation of resources
	Enhancement of sustainability in cities through water conservation: the case of the Wilmington Metropolitan City, Delaware	593
	Energy rehabilitation of a nursery school in Sicily: winter and summer behaviours	603
Section 12	Traffic and transportation
	Intelligent transportation systems for a sustainable city	615
	"Sustainable town" by appointment-was not enough!	623
	Road pricing and effect on urban freight	633
	Control logic for the energetic management for new generation hybrid vehicles	643
	TravelSMART Schools: there really is a better way to go!	653
	Towards sustainable local urban road pavements	663
	The use of layered recycled aggregate concrete barriers in targeting urban noise	673
	CO dispersion models for signalized road intersections: Gaussian vs. empirical approach	683
Section 13	Urban waste management
	Integral restructuring of an existing high-density city-district through the introduction of a decentralised (waste) water and energy concept	695
	A plan to reuse wastewaters from an urban treatment plant: emergy analysis as a measure of sustainability	707
	Sustainable urban waste management system in Metropolitan Seoul, South Korea	717
	Author Index	727