Sustainable development and planning. IX / editors, C. A. Brebbia [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brebbia, C. A., editor.

Series:

WIT transactions on ecology and the environment ; Volume 226.

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 1743-3541 ; Volume 226

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use--Planning--Congresses.

Land use.

Land use--Environmental aspects--Congresses.

Sustainable development--Congresses.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (842 pages) : illustrations (some color), graphs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Southampton, England ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : WIT Press, 2018.

Summary:

Containing papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning this volume brings together the work of academics, policy makers, practitioners and others and discusses new academic findings and their application in planning and development strategies, assessment tools and decision making processes.

Contents:

Cover

Sustainable Developmentand Planning IX

Copyright Page

Preface

Contents

Section 1: Sustainability and the built environment

Oslo 2019: a car-free city centre

Risk and unsustainability in Villahermosa, Mexico

Studies on reading the urban centre via cognitive maps: the example of Eskişehir, Turkey

The impact of roof gardens at high-rise residential buildings on property values

Legibility of industrial sites: way-finding in the Ruhr, the European capital of culture 2010, as a model for industrial sites in Eskişehir, Turkey

Case studies of the environmental quality of buildings damaged by earthquakes, prior to adaptive reconstruction: Palazzo Moscardelli in Ofena and ex-Colonia IX Maggio at Monteluco di Roio, L'Aquila, Italy

Collective self-organized housing: a research study to optimize building technologies, improve efficiency and reduce building consumptions

Research on urban renewal from the perspective of natural disaster vulnerability

Transiency, fly-in-fly-out workers, and sustainability: perceptions from within a resource-based community

Operational energy/carbon dioxide emissions analysis combing building cluster and transport demand of buildings' users at the street level: a case study of Hankou Railway Station surroundings in China

Transferring learned knowledge from the Bang Plee New Town of Thailand: concepts and policies

Public perceptions of urban sustainable challenges in developing countries

Section 2: City planning

Urban development in Oman: an overview

Space simulacrum: a paradox of conceptual novelty

Proposing a holistic basin-scale as a strategy of smart planning in adaptation to climate change

Localising global goals in Australia's global city: Sydney

Section 3: Urban Architecture.

Evaluating morphological changes of household environment: A case study of migration in Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

A comparative study on the visibility relation of Vietnam traditional and contemporary tube house plans

Next-generation habitation typology: live/work/farm

Section 4: Environmental management

Environmental strategy of universities of southern Brazil

The challenges hindering the implementation of environmental management practices in hospitals

Section 5: Regional planning

The burden of regional development planning in Indonesia: a case study of discrepancies between land use and spatial planning document in Banten province

A theoretical assessment of the environmental change from floodplain rice fields to irrigated perimeters: a case study in the San Francisco Sergipano Low Valley in the northeast region of Brazil

Application of a sustainability assessment framework for flood mitigation projects: a case study on a flood levee project in Australia

Section 6: Governance

Barriers to a better Bristol: diagnosing city strategic sustainability challenges using systems, co-production and interdisciplinary approaches

Municipal coastal governance towards rural community resilience development: scenarios and tools

Challenges of rural SMEs in Ankara, Turkey

Section 7: Community planning

Community management of the waterfront: exploring community space and activity for economic stability in Tomitsu, Amakusa City, Japan

The I-49 connector: urban development enhanced through collaboration and interdisciplinary scholarship

Section 8: Socio-economic issues

The role of women in working life in Turkey

Ethnicity, development, crimes and conflict in a multi-ethnic urban setting in Malaysia: trans-border sociological and GIS analyses of an urban society.

Comparing two methods for urban complexity calculation using the Shannon-Wiener index

Section 9: Quality of life

A growing movement: motivations for joining community gardens

Guidelines for upgrading quality of life in low income areas: a case study - Sabra-Tarik Jdideh, Beirut, Lebanon

Section 10: Cultural heritage

Recognition of industrial heritage in Aguascalientes, Mexico

Conservation for the long-haul: protecting cultural and natural resources through financial, legal, and programmatic strategies

A survey of industrial heritages in the context of water basins: Eastern Black Sea, Central Mediterranean and Northern Aegean

Section 11: Sustainable solutions in emerging countries

Effects on the registration and licensing of microenterprises in an informal economy: further evidence from the Ota area, Nigeria

Constraints in the pharmaceutical supply chain to clinics in the Mafikeng area, South Africa

The use of natural fiber as a barrier to garbage in Amazon urban rivers

The potential of participatory design to improve urban spaces in the slums of Caracas, Venezuela

Section 12: Sustainable tourism

An investigation of sustainable tourism using high speed railways

Impact of empowering local stakeholders in tourism development and sustainability of marginal rural settlements in Iran

Sustainable tourism and destination management: the Greek island of Poros

Section 13: Timber structures

Analysis of construction technology in sash windows in Persian architecture (Orosi)

Assessment and monitoring of aesthetic appearance of building biomaterials during the service-life

Retardation effect on thermally-modified spruce wood

Grid shell designing and construction technology of glue-laminated laths

Non-destructive assessment of gluing in cross-laminated timber panels.

Dynamic determination of the modulus of elasticity of maritime pine cross-laminated panels using vibration methods

Using preservative treated wood for timber structures in aquatic and sensitive environments

Section 14: Transportation

The challenges posed by problem soils on the performance of road pavements: review of a Tanzanian manual for pavement design and materials

Social media and transport choices: how social media can affect tripmakers' choices

Assessing urban mobility sustainability through a system of indicators: the case of Greek cities

Section 15: Mobility in the city

Analysis of pedestrian mobility factors in Manaus, Brazil

Do we really need signs? Urban wayshowing designed from within the surroundings

Section 16: Energy efficiency

Numerical assessment of solar updraft power plant integrated with external heat sources

An energy-resilient city: an appraisal matrix for the built environment

Designing urban building blocks around solar planning principles

Section 17: Education for sustainable development

The BNQ21000 standard: the management of sustainable development - from learning to audit

Social impact of mobile learning tablets on education and sustainable development: evidence from a private Nigerian tertiary institution

Career guidance for the stable professional development of architects

Section 18: Case studies

Revival of forgotten rivers through recreating the cultural promenade: a case study of the revival of Beirut River, Lebanon

Problems of neglected places under bridges: a case study of Yerevan Bridge, Beirut, Lebanon

Sustainable urban weed control: experiences of non-chemical weed control (manual labour, mechanical and thermal-flame weeding) in the municipality of Occhiobello, Italy.

Attitudes toward earthen architecture: the case of compressed and stabilized earth block architecture in Auroville, India

Integral adaptation to climate change in coastal zones: opportunities and limits - Rio Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatán, México

Insights and issues in the uptake and development of advanced anaerobic digestion within the UK water industry

A comparative study on user satisfaction with an observatory between Sarakura and Takato mountain, Japan

Section 19: Sustainable development indicators

Use of sustainable tourism indicators for rural coastal communities: a review

Biodiversity accounting of cities: a case study of Kolkata, India

Assessing green property management implementation among commercial buildings in Malaysia

Author index.

Notes:

"Contains edited papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning held in Bristol, UK, organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology and the University of the West of England, Bristol."

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 8, 2017).

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ISBN:

1-78466-232-1

OCLC:

1006406990