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Comprising specially selected papers, this book refers to all aspects of urban environment and provides solutions that lead towards sustainability. These research studies include contributions that have been made from a diverse range of researchers, resulting in a variety of topics and experiences.
Urban areas face a number of challenges related to reducing pollution, improving main transportation and infrastructure systems and these challenges can contribute to the development of social and economic imbalances and require the development of new solutions. The challenge is to manage human activities, pursuing welfare and prosperity in the urban environment, whilst considering the relationships between the parts and their connections with the living world. The dynamics of its networks (flows of energy matter, people, goods, information andother resources) are fundamental for an understanding of the evolving nature of today's cities.
Large cities represent a productive ground for architects, engineers, city planners, social and political scientists able to conceive new ideas and time them according to technological advances and human requirements. The multidisciplinary components of urban planning, the challenges presented by the increasing size of cities, the amount of resources required and the complexity of modern society are all addressed.
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Contents
Multidimensional characterization of the regional urban model and the urban sprawl in Valencia; Classification of urban blue green structures with aerial measurements; Holistic visual data representation for built environment assessment; Implementation of urban building energy modeling in historic districts. Seville as case-study; Spatial ethics as an evaluation tool for the long-term impacts of mega urban projects: an application of spatial ethics multi-criteria assessment to Canning Town regeneration projects, London; The role of governments and green building councils in cities' transformation to become sustainable: case studies of Hong Kong (east) and Vancouver (west); Electronic behaviour mapping and GIS application for Stavanger Torget, Norway; Urban street canyons - impact of different materials and colours of facades and ground and different positions of persons on outdoor thermal comfort; Sustainable urban mobility plan at La Manga del Mar Menor (Spain); Evolution of a coastal oasis in a high population growth rate municipality: Los Cabos, Mexico; Study on the precision of 1-minute X-band MP radar rainfall data in a small urban watershed; Applying an entropic analysis to locate rapid transit lines in sprawled cities; Monitoring air pollution by combining a static infrastructure with a participatory sensing approach: design and performance evaluation; An analysis of infection risk caused by the compound disaster of a large earthquake with flooding in an urban river catchment; Use of wastes from the peanut industry in the manufacture of building materials; Microplastics as vector for persistent organic pollutants in urban effluents: the role of polychlorinated biphenyls; The global rent gap of Lisbon's historic centre; The role of utility companies in municipal planning of smart energy communities; Factoring environment into electrification management in a region
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