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The Sustainable City XV (Hardcover)
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The Sustainable City XV (Hardcover)
Series: WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 253
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Consisting of presented papers from the 15th International
Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability, the included
works address various aspects of the urban environment and provide
solutions leading towards sustainability. Urban areas result in a
series of environmental challenges varying from the consumption of
natural resources and the subsequent generation of waste and
pollution, contributing to the development of social and economic
imbalances. As cities continue to grow all over the world, these
problems tend to become more acute and require the development of
new solutions. The challenge of planning sustainable contemporary
cities lies in considering the dynamics of urban systems, exchange
of energy and matter, and the function and maintenance of ordered
structures directly or indirectly supplied and maintained by
natural systems. The task of researchers is to improve the capacity
to manage human activities, pursuing welfare and prosperity in the
urban environment. Any investigation or planning on a city ought to
consider the relationships between the parts and their connections
with the living world. The dynamics of its networks (flows of
energy matter, people, goods, information and other resources) are
fundamental for an understanding of the evolving nature of
today’s cities. Large cities represent a fertile ground for
architects, engineers, city planners, social and political
scientists, and other professionals able to conceive new ideas and
time them according to technological advances and human
requirements. Coastal areas and coastal cities are an important
area covered in this volume as they have some specific features.
Their strategic location facilitates transportation and the
development of related activities, but this requires the existence
of large ports, with the corresponding increase in maritime and
road traffic and all its inherent negative effects. This requires
the development of well-planned and managed urban environments, not
only for reasons of efficiency and economics but also to avoid
inflicting environmental degradation that causes the deterioration
of natural resources, quality of life and human health. These
research papers put a focus on sustainability across the
multidisciplinary components of urban planning, the challenges
presented by the increasing size of cities, the number of resources
required and the complexity of modern society.
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