Sustainability in urban planning and design / / Amjad Almusaed, Asaad Almssad, Linh Truong-Hong (editors).

• TeilnehmendeR: Almusaed, Amjad,; Truong-Hong, Linh,; Almssad, Asaad,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Intech Open,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book has been prepared to embody the major and efficient applications of the different duties and the role of sustainability in urban planning and design, by a new reading of the city structure and composition, as well as offering a solid and clear concept for this kind of science. The book aims to illustrate various theories and methods of the treatment of the modern ideas of metropolitan life. The book is divided into two parts and contains 23 chapters.

Table of Contents

1. City Phenomenon between Urban Structure and Composition -- 2. Future Planning of Global South Cities with Inclusive Informal Economic Growth in Perspective -- 3. New Metrics for Spatial and Temporal 3D Urban Form Sustainability Assessment Using Time Series Lidar Point Clouds and Advanced GIS Techniques -- 4. Reshaped Urban Mobility -- 5. Improving Feature Map Quality of SOM Based on Adjusting the Neighborhood Function -- 6. Procedure to Prepare and Model Speed Data Considering the Traffic Infrastructure, as Part of a Cyber-Physical System -- 7. The Role of Public Spaces in Small Municipality -- 8. Retracted: Lessons From the Past, Visions for the Future: Generative Creating of Sacral Space in the Urban Environment -- 8. Retracted: Lessons From the Past, Visions for the Future: Generative Creating of Sacral Space in the Urban Environment -- 10. Urban Sprawl -- 11. Toward Practical Criteria for Analyzing and Designing Urban Blocks -- 12. Adaptive Governance as an Avenue for Delivering Public Purpose in the Wake of Financialization -- 13. Sustainable Design in Urban Green Space -- 14. Urban Planning Using a Geospatial Approach: A Case Study of Libya -- 15. Digital Urban Administration Model for a Traditional City (Case Study of Ibadan, Nigeria) -- 16. The Rise and Decline of Car Use in Beijing and Shanghai -- 17. Exploring the Prescriptive and Descriptive Lost Space in the Setting of Urban Fabrics of Kuala Lumpur -- 18. Integrated Approach towards Participatory Development of Urban Neighborhood Spaces: Chennai, India -- 19. Assessing the Urban Design Quality of Turkish Cities -- 20. Jamaican Universities Aiding the Design of an Urban Public Space -- 21. Approaching Urban Design through the Analysis of Structural Differences within Three Neighborhood Typologies in Basra City -- 22. Lessons from Baghdad City Conformation and Essence -- 23. Urban Social Sustainability - Case Study; Gellerupparken-Denmark -- 24. Urban Design, Space Economy and Survival in the City: Exploring Women's World of Work in Kumasi, Ghana.