Sustainability in urban planning and design / Amjad Almusaed, Asaad Almssad, Linh Truong-Hong (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Almusaed, Amjad, editor.

Truong-Hong, Linh, editor.

Almssad, Asaad, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Intech Open, [2020]

Summary:

This book has been prepared to embody the major and efficient applications of the different duties and the role of sustainability in urban planning and design, by a new reading of the city structure and composition, as well as offering a solid and clear concept for this kind of science. The book aims to illustrate various theories and methods of the treatment of the modern ideas of metropolitan life. The book is divided into two parts and contains 23 chapters.

Contents:

1. City Phenomenon between Urban Structure and Composition

2. Future Planning of Global South Cities with Inclusive Informal Economic Growth in Perspective

3. New Metrics for Spatial and Temporal 3D Urban Form Sustainability Assessment Using Time Series Lidar Point Clouds and Advanced GIS Techniques

4. Reshaped Urban Mobility

5. Improving Feature Map Quality of SOM Based on Adjusting the Neighborhood Function

6. Procedure to Prepare and Model Speed Data Considering the Traffic Infrastructure, as Part of a Cyber-Physical System

7. The Role of Public Spaces in Small Municipality

8. Retracted: Lessons From the Past, Visions for the Future: Generative Creating of Sacral Space in the Urban Environment

10. Urban Sprawl

11. Toward Practical Criteria for Analyzing and Designing Urban Blocks

12. Adaptive Governance as an Avenue for Delivering Public Purpose in the Wake of Financialization

13. Sustainable Design in Urban Green Space

14. Urban Planning Using a Geospatial Approach: A Case Study of Libya

15. Digital Urban Administration Model for a Traditional City (Case Study of Ibadan, Nigeria)

16. The Rise and Decline of Car Use in Beijing and Shanghai

17. Exploring the Prescriptive and Descriptive Lost Space in the Setting of Urban Fabrics of Kuala Lumpur

18. Integrated Approach towards Participatory Development of Urban Neighborhood Spaces: Chennai, India

19. Assessing the Urban Design Quality of Turkish Cities

20. Jamaican Universities Aiding the Design of an Urban Public Space

21. Approaching Urban Design through the Analysis of Structural Differences within Three Neighborhood Typologies in Basra City

22. Lessons from Baghdad City Conformation and Essence

23. Urban Social Sustainability - Case Study; Gellerupparken-Denmark

24. Urban Design, Space Economy and Survival in the City: Exploring Women's World of Work in Kumasi, Ghana.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.