Architectures for Next Generation EU Cities : : Challenges, Key Drivers, and Research Trends / / Ernesto Antonini, Jacopo Gaspari.

• Superior document: Ricerche di tecnologia dell'architettura
• VerfasserIn: Antonini, Ernesto,; Gaspari, Jacopo,
• TeilnehmendeR: Gaspari, Jacopo,
• Place / Publishing House: Milano : : Franco Angeli,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Ricerche di tecnologia dell'architettura.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 pages).

Cities are facing unprecedented challenges driven by different forces. On the one hand the ever-increasing effects of climate change are impacting on the urban microclimate and environmental balance, on the other one social, political and economic issues are influencing the living conditions, the accessibility to primary services and resources, as well as growth opportunities for the younger generations. The rise of a social awareness regarding these topics suggests how relevant scientific-based evidence could be and calls for additional efforts to bridge the gap between science and society, in order to stimulate a collective responsibility and due actions. The complex interaction among these factors inspired a forward-looking reflection not only on key drivers of change but also on possible future trends for research assuming an interdisciplinary and multiscale perspective. The book collects several experiences from different contributors working in many contexts and countries, but sharing the same projection to the future. Four key priorities are addressed: the resilience to climaterelated events and impacts, the energy issue with reference to both the advances at building level and the role of end users, the capacity to adapting components and systems to emerging needs, and the adoption of assessment and simulation tools for improving the design capacity within a circular system perspective. The book provides therefore insights, experiences, approaches to deal with current and especially with future transition processes which are expected to shape the cities of tomorrow. Thus, its ambition is not to provide definitive answers but to become a starting point for exploring promising research pathways for the next generation cities.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Section 1 - Climate resilient cities -- 1.Resilient urban environment: challenges and mitigation strategies -- 2. Exploring synergies in sustainable, resilient and smart buildings to address new design paradigms in the next generation of architecture -- 3. Running after pathways: a critical reflection on climate change roadmaps -- 4. Citizen's shaping power in the city in the digital age -- Section 2 - Energy, buildings, users -- 5. Addressing rising energy needs of EU cities of tomorrow: positive energy districts -- 6. Energy efficient buildings and behavioural implications -- 7. Factors influencing the social perceptions and choices towards circular renovation in the housing sector -- 8. Renewable distributed generation evolution: perspectives and new trends for prosumers in Brazil and Italy -- Section 3 - Adapting systems and components to Next Generation needs -- 9.Balancing operational and embodied energy and embodied emissions of greenhouse gases in renovation projects -- 10. Embodied Energy in building's environmental impact balance -- 11. Bamboo utilisation as a sustainable approach in shaping the diverse built environment: key values and challenges for Vietnam -- 12. A multiscalar approach to renovate the building stock towards a resilient and adaptive built environment -- Section 4 - Predicting, simulating, assessing sustainable features and circular systems -- 13. Circular economy in the built environment -- 14. Design support tools for circularity-driven renovation projects -- 15. Is circularity a measure of complexity in architecture -- 16. Improving the efficacy of circularity in the building sector to cope with climate change: shared actions among operators -- About the authors.