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Urban Systems Design

Urban Systems Design
  • Author : Yoshiki Yamagata,Perry P. J. Yang
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release Date : 2020-02-11
  • Total pages : 460
  • ISBN : 9780128162934
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Urban Systems Design: Creating Sustainable Smart Cities in the Internet of Things Era shows how to design, model and monitor smart communities using a distinctive IoT-based urban systems approach. Focusing on the essential dimensions that constitute smart communities energy, transport, urban form, and human comfort, this helpful guide explores how IoT-based sharing platforms can achieve greater community health and well-being based on relationship building, trust, and resilience. Uncovering the achievements of the most recent research on the potential of IoT and big data, this book shows how to identify, structure, measure and monitor multi-dimensional urban sustainability standards and progress. This thorough book demonstrates how to select a project, which technologies are most cost-effective, and their cost-benefit considerations. The book also illustrates the financial, institutional, policy and technological needs for the successful transition to smart cities, and concludes by discussing both the conventional and innovative regulatory instruments needed for a fast and smooth transition to smart, sustainable communities. Provides operational case studies and best practices from cities throughout Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, Australia, and Africa, providing instructive examples of the social, environmental, and economic aspects of “smartification Reviews assessment and urban sustainability certification systems such as LEED, BREEAM, and CASBEE, examining how each addresses smart technologies criteria Examines existing technologies for efficient energy management, including HEMS, BEMS, energy harvesting, electric vehicles, smart grids, and more

Sustainability Assessments of Urban Systems

Sustainability Assessments of Urban Systems
  • Author : Claudia R. Binder,Romano Wyss,Emanuele Massaro
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release Date : 2020-03-26
  • Total pages : 523
  • ISBN : 9781108471794
  • File Size : 36,8 Mb
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Provides guidelines for assessing the sustainability of urban systems including theory, methods and case studies.

Planning within Complex Urban Systems

Planning within Complex Urban Systems
  • Author : Shih-Kung Lai
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release Date : 2020-12-18
  • Total pages : 284
  • ISBN : 9781000206227
  • File Size : 9,5 Mb
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Imagine living in a city where people could move freely and buildings could be replaced at minimal cost. Reality cannot be further from such. Despite this imperfect world in which we live, urban planning has become integral and critical especially in the face of rapid urbanization in many developing and developed countries. This book introduces the axiomatic/experimental approach to urban planning and addresses the criticism of the lack of a theoretical foundation in urban planning. With the rise of the complexity movement, the book is timely in its depiction of cities as complex systems and explains why planning from within is useful in the face of urban complexity. It also includes policy implications for the Chinese cities in the context of axiomatic/experimental planning theory.

Water Systems Analysis, Design, and Planning

Water Systems Analysis, Design, and Planning
  • Author : Mohammad Karamouz
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release Date : 2021-12-29
  • Total pages : 956
  • ISBN : 9781000487336
  • File Size : 55,6 Mb
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This book presents three distinct pillars for analysis, design, and planning: urban water cycle and variability as the state of water being; landscape architecture as the medium for built-by-design; and total systems as the planning approach. The increasing demand for water and urban and industrial expansions have caused myriad environmental, social, economic, and political predicaments. More frequent and severe floods and droughts have changed the resiliency and ability of water infrastructure systems to operate and provide services to the public. These concerns and issues have also changed the way we plan and manage our water resources. Focusing on urban challenges and contexts, the book provides foundational information regarding water science and engineering while also examining topics relating to urban stormwater, water supply, and wastewater infrastructures. It also addresses critical emerging issues such as simulation and economic modeling, flood resiliency, environmental visualization, satellite data applications, and digital data model (DEM) advancements. Features: Explores various theoretical, practical, and real-world applications of system analysis, design, and planning of urban water infrastructures Discusses hydrology, hydraulics, and basic laws of water flow movement through natural and constructed environments Describes a wide range of novel topics ranging from water assets, water economics, systems analysis, risk, reliability, and disaster management Examines the details of hydrologic and hydrodynamic modeling and simulation of conceptual and data-driven models Delineates flood resiliency, environmental visualization, pattern recognition, and machine learning attributes Explores a compilation of tools and emerging techniques that elevate the reader to a higher plateau in water and environmental systems management Water Systems Analysis, Design, and Planning: Urban Infrastructure serves as a useful resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in the areas of water resources and systems analysis, as well as practicing engineers and landscape professionals.

Creating Urban Agricultural Systems

Creating Urban Agricultural Systems
  • Author : Gundula Proksch
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release Date : 2016-11-03
  • Total pages : 368
  • ISBN : 9781317751557
  • File Size : 22,8 Mb
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Creating Urban Agriculture Systems provides you with background, expertise, and inspiration for designing with urban agriculture. It shows you how to grow food in buildings and cities, operate growing systems, and integrate them with natural cycles and existing infrastructures. It teaches you the essential environmental inputs and operational strategies of urban farms, and inspires community and design tools for innovative operations and sustainable urban environments that produce fresh, local food. Over 70 projects and 16 in-depth case studies of productive, integrated systems, located in North America, Europe, and Asia ,are organized by their emphasis on nutrient, water, and energy management, farm operation, community integration and design approaches so that you can see innovative strategies in action. Interviews with leading architecture firms, including WORKac, Kiss + Cathcart, Weber Thompson, CJ Lim/Studio 8, and SOA Architectes, highlight the challenges and rewards you face when creating urban agriculture systems. Catalogs of growing and building systems, a glossary, bibliography, and abstracts will help you find information fast.

The Urban Systems Model, a Design

The Urban Systems Model, a Design
  • Author : Envirometrics, inc
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release Date : 1972
  • Total pages : 102
  • ISBN : OCLC:24183416
  • File Size : 42,9 Mb
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PDF book entitled The Urban Systems Model, a Design written by Envirometrics, inc and published by Unknown which was released on 1972 with total hardcover pages 102, the book become popular and critical acclaim.

Understanding Complex Urban Systems: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Modeling

Understanding Complex Urban Systems: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Modeling
  • Author : Christian Walloth,Jens Martin Gurr,J. Alexander Schmidt
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release Date : 2016-08-27
  • Total pages : 0
  • ISBN : 3319378902
  • File Size : 40,5 Mb
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Understanding Complex Urban Systems takes as its point of departure the insight that the challenges of global urbanization and the complexity of urban systems cannot be understood – let alone ‘managed’ – by sectoral and disciplinary approaches alone. But while there has recently been significant progress in broadening and refining the methodologies for the quantitative modeling of complex urban systems, in deepening the theoretical understanding of cities as complex systems, or in illuminating the implications for urban planning, there is still a lack of well-founded conceptual thinking on the methodological foundations and the strategies of modeling urban complexity across the disciplines. Bringing together experts from the fields of urban and spatial planning, ecology, urban geography, real estate analysis, organizational cybernetics, stochastic optimization, and literary studies, as well as specialists in various systems approaches and in transdisciplinary methodologies of urban analysis, the volume seeks to advance the discussion on multidisciplinary approaches to urban modeling. While engaging with the ‘state of the art’ in their respective fields, the contributions are specifically written for both experts from a broad range of disciplines as well as for urban practitioners who feel the need for new approaches given the uncertainty of current developments.

Low Carbon Cities

Low Carbon Cities
  • Author : Steffen Lehmann
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release Date : 2014-09-15
  • Total pages : 446
  • ISBN : 9781317659136
  • File Size : 12,9 Mb
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Low Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and scholars in architecture, urban planning and design. It features essays on ecologically sustainable cities by leading exponents of urban sustainability, case studies of the new directions low carbon cities might take and investigations of how we can mitigate urban heat stress in our cities’ microclimates. The book explores the underlying dimensions of how existing cities can be transformed into low carbon urban systems and describes the design of low carbon cities in theory and practice. It considers the connections between low carbon cities and sustainable design, social and individual values, public space, housing affordability, public transport and urban microclimates. Given the rapid urbanisation underway globally, and the need for all our cities to operate more sustainably, we need to think about how spatial planning and design can help transform urban systems to create low carbon cities, and this book provides key insights.

The Urban Systems Model: a Design

The Urban Systems Model: a Design
  • Author : Anonim
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release Date : 1972
  • Total pages : 101
  • ISBN : OCLC:24183416
  • File Size : 41,5 Mb
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Evaluation of the Urban Systems Engineering Demonstration Program

Evaluation of the Urban Systems Engineering Demonstration Program
  • Author : Howard University. School of Engineering
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release Date : 1974
  • Total pages : 268
  • ISBN : UIUC:30112104123655
  • File Size : 46,5 Mb
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"The preparationof this report was financed in part through a comprehensive planning grant through the Department of Housing and Urban Development under contract no. H-1701.

Urban Operating Systems

Urban Operating Systems
  • Author : Andres Luque-Ayala,Simon Marvin
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release Date : 2020-12-15
  • Total pages : 296
  • ISBN : 9780262360999
  • File Size : 9,9 Mb
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An exploration of the modest potentials and serious contradictions of reconfiguring urban life through computational operating systems. A new wave of enthusiasm for smart cities, urban data, and the Internet of Things has created the impression that computation can solve almost any urban problem. Subjecting this claim to critical scrutiny, in this book, Andrés Luque-Ayala and Simon Marvin examine the cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts in which urban computational logics have emerged. They consider the rationalities and techniques that constitute emerging computational forms of urbanization, including work on digital urbanism, smart cities, and, more recently, platform urbanism. They explore the modest potentials and serious contradictions of reconfiguring urban life, city services, and urban-networked infrastructure through computational operating systems.

Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design

Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design
  • Author : S.T.A. Pickett,M.L. Cadenasso,Brian McGrath
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release Date : 2013-01-13
  • Total pages : 499
  • ISBN : 9789400753419
  • File Size : 17,9 Mb
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The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative urban design, as urban areas exemplify complex systems. With something approaching half of the world’s population now residing in coastal urban zones, many of which are vulnerable both to floods originating inland and rising sea levels, making urban areas more robust in the face of environmental threats must be a policy ambition of the highest priority. The complexity of urban areas results from their spatial heterogeneity, their intertwined material and energy fluxes, and the integration of social and natural processes. All of these features can be altered by intentional planning and design. The complex, integrated suite of urban structures and processes together affect the adaptive resilience of urban systems, but also presupposes that planners can intervene in positive ways. As examples accumulate of linkage between sustainability and building/landscape design, such as the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park and Toronto’s Lower Don River area, this book unites the ideas, data, and insights of ecologists and related scientists with those of urban designers. It aims to integrate a formerly atomized dialog to help both disciplines promote urban resilience.

Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs

Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs
  • Author : Jonathan Barnett,Larry Beasley
  • Publisher : Island Press
  • Release Date : 2015-06-23
  • Total pages : 273
  • ISBN : 1610913426
  • File Size : 35,5 Mb
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As world population grows, and more people move to cities and suburbs, they place greater stress on the operating system of our whole planet. But urbanization and increasing densities also present our best opportunity for improving sustainability, by transforming urban development into desirable, lower-carbon, compact and walkable communities and business centers. Jonathan Barnett and Larry Beasley seek to demonstrate that a sustainable built and natural environment can be achieved through ecodesign, which integrates the practice of planning and urban design with environmental conservation, through normal business practices and the kinds of capital programs and regulations already in use in most communities. Ecodesign helps adapt the design of our built environment to both a changing climate and a rapidly growing world, creating more desirable places in the process. In six comprehensively illustrated chapters, the authors explain ecodesign concepts, including the importance of preserving and restoring natural systems while also adapting to climate change; minimizing congestion on highways and at airports by making development more compact, and by making it easier to walk, cycle and take trains and mass transit; crafting and managing regulations to insure better placemaking and fulfill consumer preferences, while incentivizing preferred practices; creating an inviting and environmentally responsible public realm from parks to streets to forgotten spaces; and finally how to implement these ecodesign concepts. Throughout the book, the ecodesign framework is demonstrated by innovative practices that are already underway or have been accomplished in many cities and suburbs—from Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm to False Creek North in Vancouver to Battery Park City in Manhattan, as well as many smaller-scale examples that can be adopted in any community. Ecodesign thinking is relevant to anyone who has a part in shaping or influencing the future of cities and suburbs – designers, public officials, and politicians.

Environmental Design of Urban Buildings

Environmental Design of Urban Buildings
  • Author : Mat Santamouris
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release Date : 2013-06-17
  • Total pages : 348
  • ISBN : 9781136566943
  • File Size : 19,9 Mb
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This book provides a review of environmental and energy research with respect to urban building projects. It describes how to overcome related challenges in environmental design of urban buildings. The book discusses the passive and active environmental systems within building concepts.

Fundamentals of Spatial Information Systems

Fundamentals of Spatial Information Systems
  • Author : Robert Laurini,Derek Thompson
  • Publisher : Academic Press
  • Release Date : 1992-03-19
  • Total pages : 709
  • ISBN : 9780124383807
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The study and application of spatial information systems have been developed primarily from the use of computers in the geosciences. These systems have the principle functions of capturing, storing, representing, manipulating, and displaying data in 2-D and 3-D worlds. This book approaches its subject from the perspectives of informatics and geography, presenting methods of conceptual modeling developed in computer science that provide valuable aids for resolving spatial problems. This book is an essential textbook for both students and practitioners. It is indispensable for academic geographers, computer scientists, and the GIS professional. Serves as the first comprehensive textbook on the field of Spatial Information Systems (also known as Geographic Information Systems) Contains extensive illustrations Presents numerous detailed examples

Sustainable Urbanism

Sustainable Urbanism
  • Author : Douglas Farr
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release Date : 2012-01-09
  • Total pages : 304
  • ISBN : 9781118174517
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Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and buildings. Providing a historic perspective on the standards and regulations that got us to where we are today in terms of urban lifestyle and attempts at reform, Douglas Farr makes a powerful case for sustainable urbanism, showing where we went wrong, and where we need to go. He then explains how to implement sustainable urbanism through leadership and communication in cities, communities, and neighborhoods. Essays written by Farr and others delve into such issues as: Increasing sustainability through density. Integrating transportation and land use. Creating sustainable neighborhoods, including housing, car-free areas, locally-owned stores, walkable neighborhoods, and universal accessibility. The health and environmental benefits of linking humans to nature, including walk-to open spaces, neighborhood stormwater systems and waste treatment, and food production. High performance buildings and district energy systems. Enriching the argument are in-depth case studies in sustainable urbanism, from BedZED in London, England and Newington in Sydney, Australia, to New Railroad Square in Santa Rosa, California and Dongtan, Shanghai, China. An epilogue looks to the future of sustainable urbanism over the next 200 years. At once solidly researched and passionately argued, Sustainable Urbanism is the ideal guidebook for urban designers, planners, and architects who are eager to make a positive impact on our--and our descendants'--buildings, cities, and lives.

Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design

Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design
  • Author : Imdat As,Prithwish Basu
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release Date : 2022-05-27
  • Total pages : 408
  • ISBN : 9780128239421
  • File Size : 48,8 Mb
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Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design: Technologies, Implementation, and Impacts is the most comprehensive resource available on the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it relates to smart city planning and urban design. The book explains nascent applications of AI technologies in urban design and city planning, providing a thorough overview of AI-based solutions. It offers a framework for discussion of theoretical foundations of AI, AI applications in the urban design, AI-based research and information systems, and AI-based generative design systems. The concept of AI generates unprecedented city planning solutions without defined rules in advance, a development raising important questions issues for urban design and city planning. This book articulates current theoretical and practical methods, offering critical views on tools and techniques and suggests future directions for the meaningful use of AI technology. Includes a cutting-edge catalogue of AI tools applied to smart city design and planning Provides case studies from around the globe at various scales Includes diagrams and graphics for course instruction

Advancing Urban Sustainability in China and the United States

Advancing Urban Sustainability in China and the United States
  • Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on Advancing Urban Sustainability in China and the United States: A Workshop
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release Date : 2020-06-04
  • Total pages : 86
  • ISBN : 9780309677240
  • File Size : 39,6 Mb
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In November 2018, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) President Marcia McNutt visited China for the first time in her official role. As part of this visit, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Science and Technology for Sustainability (STS) program and the Chinese Academy of Sciences organized a one-day workshop relating to urban sustainability in Beijing. The goal of the visit was to begin to explore some areas where the U.S. National Academies and the Chinese Academy might develop collaboration. At the same time, the trip provided an opportunity to develop links to other parts of the science and technology community in China. To further elucidate some of these issues and build upon current partnerships, an expert committee under the STS program, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, organized a one-day public workshop on urban sustainability in China and the United States, held on December 16, 2019. The workshop focused on the intersection of urban climate change mitigation and adaptation, urban health, and sustainable transportation, including green infrastructure and urban flooding in both countries. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Climax City

Climax City
  • Author : David Rudlin,Shruti Hemani
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release Date : 2019-06-27
  • Total pages : 288
  • ISBN : 9781000705201
  • File Size : 32,6 Mb
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Book Award Finalist for Urban Design Group Awards 2020 Human settlements are the result of a mix of self-organisation and planning. Planners are fighting a losing battle to impose order on chaotic systems. Connections between the process of urban growth and the fields of complexity theory are of increasing importance to planners and urbanists alike; the idea that cities are emergent structures created not by design but from the interplay of relatively simple rules and forces over time. From the the small Tuscan hill town to the megacities of Asia: the struggle between the planned and the unplanned is universal. Based on years of international research, Climax City is a critical exploration of the growth of cities and masterplanning. Challenging the idea that the city can be entirely planned on paper, this book implores you to work with chaos when planning cities. Beautifully illustrated with striking hand-drawn plans of global cities, this is a vital and accessible contribution to urban theory and planning. It’s the perfect title for practitioners and academics across planning and urban design looking to make sense out of chaos.

On the Location and Design of Consumer-serving Urban Systems

On the Location and Design of Consumer-serving Urban Systems
  • Author : John Winston Mayne
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release Date : 1973
  • Total pages : 774
  • ISBN : UCAL:B4568604
  • File Size : 34,5 Mb
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Urban Design and Representation

Urban Design and Representation
  • Author : Barbara E.A. Piga,Rossella Salerno
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release Date : 2017-03-06
  • Total pages : 223
  • ISBN : 9783319518046
  • File Size : 13,6 Mb
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This book explores how environmental urban design can benefit from established and emerging representation and simulation techniques that meet the need for a multisensory approach. Bringing together contributions by researchers and practicing professionals that approach the topics discussed from both theoretical and practical perspectives and draw on case-study applications, it addresses important themes including digital modeling, physical modeling, mapping, and simulation. The chapters are linked by their relevance to simple but crucial questions: How can representational solutions enhance an urban design approach in which people’s well-being is considered the primary goal? How can one best represent and design the ambiance of places? What kinds of technologies and tools are available to support multisensory urban design? How can current and future environments be optimally represented and simulated, taking into account the way in which we experience places? Shedding new light on these key questions, the book offers both a reference guide for those engaged in applied research, and a toolkit for professionals and students.