Designing sustainable cities

Designing sustainable cities / Rob Roggema, editor.

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 perspecti...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Roggema, Rob (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
Series:Contemporary urban design thinking.
Subjects:
Sustainable urban development.
Sustainable urban development
Building
Sustainable architecture
Urban geography
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Designing the Sustainable City
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Missing in Action ...
  • 1.2.1 Radicality
  • 1.2.2 Integrality
  • 1.2.3 Exploratory
  • 1.2.4 Designerly
  • 1.3 Neglected Concepts
  • 1.3.1 The City as a Superorganism
  • 1.3.2 Urban Metabolism, Closing Cycles of Flows
  • 1.3.3 Becoming Regenerative, Making Use of Indigenous Knowledge
  • 1.3.4 Design-Led, Underpinned with Monitored Data
  • 1.4 The Great Divide(s)
  • 1.5 Aspects of Sustainable City Design
  • 1.5.1 Abstract Overarching Concepts
  • 1.5.2 Concrete Monitoring of Sustainability Performances
  • 1.5.3 Technocratic Underpinnings
  • 1.5.4 Aesthetics of Beauty and Appreciated Cities: Design
  • 1.6 Fields of Integration
  • 1.6.1 Abstract Aesthetics
  • 1.6.2 Technocratic Abstractions
  • 1.6.3 Concrete Aesthetics
  • 1.6.4 Technocratic Concreteness
  • 1.7 Designing a Sustainable City
  • 1.8 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 2: The Role of Indigenous Paradigms and Traditional Knowledge Systems in Modern Humanity's Sustainability Quest
  • Future Foundations from Past Knowledge's
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Sustainability
  • 2.3 Ecological Sustainability
  • 2.4 Traditional Knowledge Systems
  • 2.5 Relation to the Land
  • 2.6 Moving into New Territory
  • 2.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Born, not Made. Designing the Productive City
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Ecological Footprint
  • 3.3 Bio-based Urbanism
  • 3.4 Ecological Synergy
  • 3.5 Holistic Thinking
  • 3.6 In the Mood for Change
  • 3.6.1 Nelson, Lancashire
  • 3.6.2 Fast-Food in Space
  • 3.6.3 Algae Arrays in Liverpool
  • 3.6.4 The Sunflower House
  • 3.6.5 Biospheric Project
  • 3.6.6 Food-Producing Facade
  • 3.6.7 Whitefield, Nelson
  • 3.6.8 CityZEN
  • 3.6.9 Design for Future Climate
  • 3.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Regenerative Placemaking: Creating a New Model for Place Development by Bringing Together Regenerative and Placemaking Processes
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.1.1 Aims of the Chapter
  • 4.1.2 Practice of Placemaking
  • 4.1.3 Regenerative Development
  • 4.2 Methods
  • 4.3 Outcomes
  • 4.3.1 Understanding Place: Evolution of a Place
  • 4.3.2 Temporal and Spatial Scale of 'Place'
  • 4.3.3 The Ability to Elicit Potential
  • 4.4 Introducing Regenerative Placemaking: Bringing Together Placemaking and Regenerative Development for Continual Co-evolution
  • 4.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: The Key Role of Systems Thinking in Sustainable Architecture
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Beginning of the Problem
  • 5.3 Change Is Required
  • 5.4 The Misunderstanding of Sustainability
  • 5.5 Advanced Definitions of Sustainability
  • 5.5.1 Permaculture, Systems Based Thinking and Regenerative Design
  • 5.5.2 Re-evaluating Starchitects' Values
  • 5.5.3 Energy Rating Systems
  • 5.5.4 Policymaking

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