Designing Sustainable Cities

This book emphasizes new ways of designing for a sustainable city and urban environment. From several angles the future of our urbanism is illuminated. From a philosophical point of view, the city is seen as an organism, following complex ecosystemic principles, shining light on indigenous perspectives to become beneficial for sustainable design and core questions are asked whether current architectural practice is really sustainable. Simultaneously concrete practices are presented for cities in transformation, focusing on green infrastructure, smart city principles and health.

Auteur

Prof. dr. ir. Rob Roggema is currently Professor of Sustainable Urban Environments. He is a Landscape Architect and an internationally renowned design-expert on sustainable urbanism, climate adaptation, energy landscapes and urban agriculture. He has previously held positions at universities in the Netherlands and Australia, State and Municipal governments and design consultancies. Rob developed the Swarm Planning concept, a dynamic way of planning the city for future adaptation to climate change impacts. Rob is the leader of the Urban Research Network and focuses in his research on resilient and smart urbanism. He is also leading the Sydney Urban_Institute in Sydney, which will research and implement intelligent solutions for current and future urban problems.

Rob has designed and led over 30 design charrettes around the world, involving communities, academics, governments and industries in design processes for more resilient communities. He has written three books on climate adaptation and design, four on Urban Agriculture, and one each about design charrettes, Rio's FoodRoofs and Design for Recovery in Japan.

Contenu

Chapter 1Designing the Sustainable City

Rob Roggema

Chapter 2The Role of Indigenous Paradigms and Traditional Knowledge Systems in Modern Humanity's Sustainability Quest - Future foundations from past knowledge

Chels.A. Marshall

Chapter 3Born, not made: designing the productive city Greg Keeffe, Rob Roggema

Chapter 4A new model for place development bringing together regenerative and placemaking processes

Cristina Hernandez-Santin, Dominique Hes, Tanja Beer, Lewis Lo

Chapter 5The key role of systems thinking in sustainable architecture

Luke Middleton

Chapter 6Liveable Green Cities; integrating climate adaptive solutions and circular economy into the built environment Martin Knuijt

Chapter 7Post-earthquake recovery in Nepal: A study and analysis of post disaster perception and needs for housing recovery after 2015 earthquake

Rupesh Shrestha, Alexander Fekete, Simone Sandholz

Chapter 8Tackling urban open space encroachment in a South African township: an exploratory study

Lindelwa Sinxadi, Maléne Campbell

Chapter 9The role of smart city initiatives in driving partnerships: A case study of the Smart Social Spaces Project, Sydney Australia

Homa Rahmat, Nancy Marshall, Christine Steinmetz, Miles Park, Christian Tietz, Kate Bishop, Susan Thompson, Linda Corkery

Chapter 10Fostering successful smart campus transitions through consensus-building: a university of technology case study Alfred B. Ngowi, Bankole O. Awuzie

Chapter 11The role of landscape architectural designers in landscape construction health and safety

John Smallwood Chapter 12Sustainability, ReciproCity, Radicality

Rob Roggema

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