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This edited book provides a solid foundation for future research on
cooling cities, climate change impacts on cities and urban
environments, and innovative mitigation and adaptation strategies.
With ever-increasing climate change impacts on our living
environments and continuous calamities and natural disasters around
the world, we urge for new approaches, apt action, and adequate
support to boost cooling strategies for the built environments. To
achieve this goal, research, practice, and policy could do much
more to provide us with new pathways to achieve sustainable
development.   This book is a comprehensive
collection of theoretical perspectives and global case study
examples focused on three core areas of (1) concepts, theories, and
trends, (2) mitigation and adaptation strategies, and (3)
policies. The book is of use to various stakeholders and
more importantly to urban specialists, planners and designers,
policymakers, academics, practitioners, and developers. We urge
them to mitigate climate change before it gets too late. We are
confident the book could provide readers with new ideas,
strategies, and directions that could lighten up the path toward
new actions, policies, and innovation.
This book fills a major gap in academic research, by exploring
'urban resilience measures' and 'city management issues' during
disruptive disease outbreak events. Based on the overarching
concept of 'resilience thinking', it addresses critical issues of
preparedness, responsiveness and reflectiveness in the event of
outbreak, focusing on cities and how they should prepare to combat
a variety of adversities and uncertainties caused by outbreaks.
This comprehensive book is an essential guide for decision-makers,
city authorities, planners, healthcare and public health
authorities, and those communities and businesses that face disease
outbreak events. It also offers a set of practical measures to
support the development of tailor-made strategies in the form of an
action plan. These strategies should address outbreak control and
containment measures, institutional rearrangements, management of
urban systems, and healthiness of the society. Divided into six
chapters, this book explores important topics of 'urban resilience'
and 'city management' for preparedness action plans and
responsiveness planning. Further, it presents a comprehensive urban
resilience approach used to support city management in the recent
outbreaks in Chinese cities, which can be applied in cities around
the globe to strengthen their resilience and maximise the
practicality of urban resilience and minimise urban vulnerabilities
during disease outbreaks. Highlighting topics such as maintaining
societal well-being, community engagement, and multi-sectoral city
management enhancement, this book offers a unique combination of
research, practices and lessons learned to aid cities in need.
This book explores the hybridity of urban identities in multiple
dimensions and at multiple scales, how they form as catalysts and
mechanisms for urban transitions, and how they develop as city
branding strategies and urban regeneration methods. Due to rapid
globalisation, the notion of identity has become scarcer, more
fragile, and inarguably more important. Given the significance of
place and displacement for contemporary everyday life, and the
continuous advancement of technologies, identifying relations and
values that define humans and their environments in various ways
has become crucial. Divided into seven chapters, this book provides
extensive coverage of 'urban identity', an often-overlooked topic
in the fields of urbanism, urban geography, and urban design. It
approaches the topic from a novel dual perspective, by exploring
cities with tangible commonalities and shared strategies for
refining their identities, and by highlighting cities and urban
environments characterised by multiple identities. Based on a
decade of research in this field, the book provides a
multi-disciplinary perspective on urban identity. In addition to
comprehensive information for students, it offers a key reference
guide for urbanists, urban designers and geographers, architectural
and urban practitioners, decision-makers, and governing bodies
involved in urban development strategies.
The scope of this book is to map China's city clusters and their
individual directions for the national-level strategies in line
with the 2060 carbon neutrality plan. Since China announced the
carbon neutrality plan in autumn 2020, no study has looked at the
role of city clusters in achieving this long-term plan. Hence, this
study is believed to be the first attempt to explore this important
topic from the city cluster perspective. It explores the
challenges, opportunities, and directions of all 19 city clusters,
allowing readers to have a clear picture of China's historical and
ongoing progress, as well as the challenges and opportunities that
lie ahead. In a short time, China's city clusters have helped boost
regional economic development, infrastructure development, trade
and business, and better urban-rural integration. With enhanced
coordination of connection and transport networks in and between
the city clusters, we see a growing number of initiatives beyond
just the initial economic strategies. The dual approach of top-down
policies and infrastructure systems and bottom-up governance and
investments has helped China consider urban-rural development
strategies and regional sustainable development. These factors are
essential to be explored from the city cluster perspective and in
line with China's sustainable development and carbon neutrality
directions. Hence, the book covers these points holistically,
ensuring that regional planning and development are favored in the
face of uneven urbanization trends. We anticipate this book to be a
valuable resource for local governments and authorities, urban
planners and practitioners, developers, and urban researchers.
While the focus is on China's city clusters, we believe there are
similar examples elsewhere. Hence, lessons learnt from this book
could apply to other countries, regions, and subregions. Lastly,
the book aims to put regional sustainable development at the heart
of longer-term strategies and plans, such as the case of China's
carbon neutrality plan.
This book is the first attempt to explore the use and application
of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related smart
technologies in cities and for the sole purpose of reaching
positive peace. The everyday usage of digital technologies in
cities encourages us to study the benefits, co-benefits,
disadvantages, and threats of ICT application in cities and urban
environments. The continuous growth of digital technologies and
their growing demand in everyday urban practices and systems are
already known to scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.
However, this book explores whether or not such applications and
usage help us reaching positive peace. This approach is novel in
the field of urban studies, allowing us to identify and highlight
best practices, successes, and failures of ICT application to meet
positive peace pillars. The scope of the book highlights our focus
on positive peace and its eight pillars, mainly how they are meant
to be achieved in cities and urban areas. With an analytical view
on the topic, we aim to reflect on the systematic features of urban
systems, using positive peace pillars as the primary targets. We
believe ICT application and usage in cities could be more directive
and beneficial to reach peace and prosperity to achieve such a
goal. Therefore, this book provides a holistic guideline and
coverage of ICT use for positive peace pathways and peace-building
practices. We hope the findings of the book help researchers and
policy-makers to come up with novel and integrated strategies,
ensuring that our everyday usage of digital technologies, ICT, and
smart tools, are more meaningful and people-oriented.
Since 2014, and the start of the New-type Urbanization Plan (NUP),
we see a turning point in the sustainability agenda of China. One
of the main indicators is greening cities and the built
environments, which will be covered holistically in this edited
book. From the perspective of green infrastructure, in particular,
the book approaches key areas of 'forest city development', 'sponge
city program', 'green roofing', 'nature-based solutions', 'urban
farming', 'eco-city development', etc. This is the first time that
such important areas of research come together under the
perspective of green Infrastructure. The results would be
beneficial to policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in China
and across the globe. The comprehensive set of findings from this
book will benefit other countries, as we aim to highlight some of
the best practices of the current age. The main aim of the book is
to put together an excellent group of scholars and practitioners
from the field, focusing on the topic of 'Green Infrastructure in
Chinese Cities'. In doing so, we aim to cover some of the key 'best
practices' for sustainable urbanism. Divided into four parts, the
book covers four key areas of (1) Policy Interventions, (2)
Planning Innovation, (3) Design Solutions, and (4) Technical
Integration. In doing so, we cover an array of best practices
related to green infrastructures of various types and their impacts
on cities and communities in China. We expect the book to be a
valuable resource for researchers in the areas of sustainability,
urbanism, urban planning, urban geography, urban design,
geographical sciences, environmental sciences, landscape
architecture, and urban ecology. The book covers essential factors
such as policy, regulations, and programs (in Part 1), planning
paradigms and their impacts on urban development (in Part 2),
integrated design solutions that suggest sustainable urbanization
progression (in Part 3), and technical knowledge that would be
utilized for the future development of green infrastructure
practices in China and beyond. Lastly, this edited book aims to
provide a collaborative opportunity for experts and researchers of
the field, who could contribute to the future pathways of
sustainable urbanization of China. Lessons extracted from these
contributions could be utilized for other contexts, which will
benefit a wider group of stakeholders.
This book considers the impact of climate change on cities,
advocating that people are the panaceas and antidote to mitigating
climate change, by enhancing their involvement in achieving
sustainable development Goals (SDGs). This leads to the development
of an SDG best practice participation template, which is supported
by an extensive checklist of the 'whats' and 'hows' in
participatory processes. Using case studies, extensive literature
reviews and meta-analysis to make a case for a people-centric and
integrated approach to sustainable urban development, it examines
the role of governance in climate change, focusing on decision
making processes, policies and regulations, as well as focusing on
the significance of a people-oriented approach on climate change
and cities. Through an extensive global outlook, this book
highlights bottom-up methods of implementing and achieving
sustainable urban development in the age of climate change. These
highlights should help to develop new mindsets, new strategies, new
directions and new policies, through which we can see a more
sustainable approach to urbanisation and urban development
globally, which can start 'equipping future generations with the
tools for them to help their future generations'.
In addition to China and South East Asia, the book could be well
positioned in North-America and Europe where many universities and
institutions have research centres and courses regarding Chinese
urbanization. One potential market is Africa where many Chinese
enterprises are building residential neighbourhoods in the "Chinese
style".
In addition to China and South East Asia, the book could be well
positioned in North-America and Europe where many universities and
institutions have research centres and courses regarding Chinese
urbanization. One potential market is Africa where many Chinese
enterprises are building residential neighbourhoods in the "Chinese
style".
This book considers the impact of global climate change, advocating
to promote sustainable development from the perspective of low
carbon and climate resilience, by reducing carbon emissions in
different aspects of urban and regional development. As the world's
largest emitter of carbon dioxide, China is continuously exploring
a sustainable path to achieve the momentous goal of 2060 carbon
neutrality. In addition, this book reviews and summarizes China's
green development and predicts the transformation of China's carbon
emission and energy structure before and after the peak of carbon
emission in 2030. It examines the role of governance in
decarbonization efforts, focusing on decision making processes,
policies and regulations, as well as the significance of regions,
cities, and communities. This book highlights typical methods of
implementing and achieving low carbon development in light of
China's practical situation, which helps to resolve some of the
problems that may arise in achieving the carbon neutral goal.
Therefore, this book is suitable for the reference of scholars in
low-carbon environment science, sustainable urban development, and
other related fields. It also provides inspiration for China's
medium and long-term sustainable development plans in the future.
This edited book surveys the major sustainability challenges facing
Asian cities, in particular those related to urban energy and city
cooling. The book discusses the key concepts and issues involved,
addressing the three levels of micro (individual buildings), meso
(neighbourhoods/districts) and macro (whole or large parts of
cities). It illustrates different paradigms of urban development
and explores how to create cooler cities by applying integrated
sustainable design and planning on all three levels, bridging the
gap between specialist approaches by highlighting both built
projects, processes, and research. It also raises questions about
prevalent paradigms of urban development as well as topics relating
to urban district cooling solutions, sustainable construction
materials, and processes towards effective delivery of sustainable
cities. Providing cutting edge insights into hot climate cities in
Asia, this text is also pertinent for the study of cities in other
world regions, notably in developing countries, and of broad
relevance to sustainable urban planning in all contexts.
This book explores China's eco-development strategies and practices
from a multi-scalar perspective, discussing the importance of
interplay between multi spatial levels of the built environment, as
well as the stakeholders who are key players for China's
eco-development. Based on a selection of eco-development Chinese
case studies - eco-city, eco-community and eco-building - it
highlights how specific eco initiatives and green features are
applied and practiced, offering a guide to China's strategy
directions and design and planning trends. The book identifies gaps
and strategies and solutions for future eco-development expected to
take place in China in the coming decades, as well as useful
references for eco-development in other countries, and provides a
useful resource for studies in the fields of urbanism, sustainable
development and eco-design.
This book fills a major gap in academic research, by exploring
'urban resilience measures' and 'city management issues' during
disruptive disease outbreak events. Based on the overarching
concept of 'resilience thinking', it addresses critical issues of
preparedness, responsiveness and reflectiveness in the event of
outbreak, focusing on cities and how they should prepare to combat
a variety of adversities and uncertainties caused by outbreaks.
This comprehensive book is an essential guide for decision-makers,
city authorities, planners, healthcare and public health
authorities, and those communities and businesses that face disease
outbreak events. It also offers a set of practical measures to
support the development of tailor-made strategies in the form of an
action plan. These strategies should address outbreak control and
containment measures, institutional rearrangements, management of
urban systems, and healthiness of the society. Divided into six
chapters, this book explores important topics of 'urban resilience'
and 'city management' for preparedness action plans and
responsiveness planning. Further, it presents a comprehensive urban
resilience approach used to support city management in the recent
outbreaks in Chinese cities, which can be applied in cities around
the globe to strengthen their resilience and maximise the
practicality of urban resilience and minimise urban vulnerabilities
during disease outbreaks. Highlighting topics such as maintaining
societal well-being, community engagement, and multi-sectoral city
management enhancement, this book offers a unique combination of
research, practices and lessons learned to aid cities in need.
This edited book surveys the major sustainability challenges facing
Asian cities, in particular those related to urban energy and city
cooling. The book discusses the key concepts and issues involved,
addressing the three levels of micro (individual buildings), meso
(neighbourhoods/districts) and macro (whole or large parts of
cities). It illustrates different paradigms of urban development
and explores how to create cooler cities by applying integrated
sustainable design and planning on all three levels, bridging the
gap between specialist approaches by highlighting both built
projects, processes, and research. It also raises questions about
prevalent paradigms of urban development as well as topics relating
to urban district cooling solutions, sustainable construction
materials, and processes towards effective delivery of sustainable
cities. Providing cutting edge insights into hot climate cities in
Asia, this text is also pertinent for the study of cities in other
world regions, notably in developing countries, and of broad
relevance to sustainable urban planning in all contexts.
This book explores China's eco-development strategies and practices
from a multi-scalar perspective, discussing the importance of
interplay between multi spatial levels of the built environment, as
well as the stakeholders who are key players for China's
eco-development. Based on a selection of eco-development Chinese
case studies - eco-city, eco-community and eco-building - it
highlights how specific eco initiatives and green features are
applied and practiced, offering a guide to China's strategy
directions and design and planning trends. The book identifies gaps
and strategies and solutions for future eco-development expected to
take place in China in the coming decades, as well as useful
references for eco-development in other countries, and provides a
useful resource for studies in the fields of urbanism, sustainable
development and eco-design.
This book is the first attempt to explore the use and application
of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related smart
technologies in cities and for the sole purpose of reaching
positive peace. The everyday usage of digital technologies in
cities encourages us to study the benefits, co-benefits,
disadvantages, and threats of ICT application in cities and urban
environments. The continuous growth of digital technologies and
their growing demand in everyday urban practices and systems are
already known to scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.
However, this book explores whether or not such applications and
usage help us reaching positive peace. This approach is novel in
the field of urban studies, allowing us to identify and highlight
best practices, successes, and failures of ICT application to meet
positive peace pillars. The scope of the book highlights our
focus on positive peace and its eight pillars, mainly how they are
meant to be achieved in cities and urban areas. With an analytical
view on the topic, we aim to reflect on the systematic features of
urban systems, using positive peace pillars as the primary targets.
We believe ICT application and usage in cities could be more
directive and beneficial to reach peace and prosperity to achieve
such a goal. Therefore, this book provides a holistic guideline and
coverage of ICT use for positive peace pathways and peace-building
practices. We hope the findings of the book help researchers and
policy-makers to come up with novel and integrated strategies,
ensuring that our everyday usage of digital technologies, ICT, and
smart tools, are more meaningful and people-oriented.
Since 2014, and the start of the New-type Urbanization Plan (NUP),
we see a turning point in the sustainability agenda of China. One
of the main indicators is greening cities and the built
environments, which will be covered holistically in this edited
book. From the perspective of green infrastructure, in particular,
the book approaches key areas of ‘forest city development’,
‘sponge city program’, ‘green roofing’, ‘nature-based
solutions’, ‘urban farming’, ‘eco-city development’, etc.
This is the first time that such important areas of research come
together under the perspective of green Infrastructure. The results
would be beneficial to policymakers, practitioners, and researchers
in China and across the globe. The comprehensive set of findings
from this book will benefit other countries, as we aim to highlight
some of the best practices of the current age. The main aim of the
book is to put together an excellent group of scholars and
practitioners from the field, focusing on the topic of ‘Green
Infrastructure in Chinese Cities’. In doing so, we aim to cover
some of the key ‘best practices’ for sustainable urbanism.
Divided into four parts, the book covers four key areas of (1)
Policy Interventions, (2) Planning Innovation, (3) Design
Solutions, and (4) Technical Integration. In doing so, we cover an
array of best practices related to green infrastructures of various
types and their impacts on cities and communities in China. We
expect the book to be a valuable resource for researchers in the
areas of sustainability, urbanism, urban planning, urban geography,
urban design, geographical sciences, environmental sciences,
landscape architecture, and urban ecology. The book covers
essential factors such as policy, regulations, and programs (in
Part 1), planning paradigms and their impacts on urban development
(in Part 2), integrated design solutions that suggest sustainable
urbanization progression (in Part 3), and technical knowledge that
would be utilized for the future development of green
infrastructure practices in China and beyond. Lastly, this edited
book aims to provide a collaborative opportunity for experts and
researchers of the field, who could contribute to the future
pathways of sustainable urbanization of China. Lessons extracted
from these contributions could be utilized for other contexts,
which will benefit a wider group of stakeholders.
As a continuation of 'Identity of Cities and City of Identities',
this book covers the arguments around the
memory-experience-cognition nexus concerning palimpsests and urban
places. As cities experience transitional phases of growth,
development, decline, and decay, the author urges considering the
notion of urban memory in place-making strategies and design
decision-making processes. These explorations would add value to
primary fields of architecture, architectural history, cognitive
science, human geography, and urbanism. Divided into eight
chapters, this book puts together a comprehensive knowledge of
urban memory in city transitions. By studying urban memory, the
author delves into conceptions of mental mapping, knowledge of
environments, cognition of places, and the perceptual dimension of
urbanism. Undoubtedly, urban memory plays a significant part in the
future movements of humanistic urbanism. Given the significances of
scale, pace, and mode of city transitions globally, we should
remember who are the ultimate users of those living environments.
Therefore, in this book, the author debates two contradictions of
'memory of place vs. place of memory', and 'significance of place
vs. place of significance'. Each of these is believed to be a
paradox of its own, indicating places are significant through the
systematic networks of cities, memories are meaningful through the
neural information processing, and place memories are the essence
of urban identities. The book's ultimate goal is to demonstrate the
effectiveness of the space-time frame of place in making memorable
places. Through the comprehensive explorations of many global
examples, we can evaluate the significance of place in mind more
carefully. This is narrated based on the recognition of nostalgia
in cities, socio-temporal qualities in places, and the network of
processes in our minds. In return, the aim is to provide new
knowledge to make memorable cities, enhance social experiences, and
capture and value the significance of place in mind.
This book considers the impact of global climate change, advocating
to promote sustainable development from the perspective of low
carbon and climate resilience, by reducing carbon emissions in
different aspects of urban and regional development. As the world's
largest emitter of carbon dioxide, China is continuously exploring
a sustainable path to achieve the momentous goal of 2060 carbon
neutrality. In addition, this book reviews and summarizes China's
green development and predicts the transformation of China's carbon
emission and energy structure before and after the peak of carbon
emission in 2030. It examines the role of governance in
decarbonization efforts, focusing on decision making processes,
policies and regulations, as well as the significance of regions,
cities, and communities. This book highlights typical methods of
implementing and achieving low carbon development in light of
China's practical situation, which helps to resolve some of the
problems that may arise in achieving the carbon neutral goal.
Therefore, this book is suitable for the reference of scholars in
low-carbon environment science, sustainable urban development, and
other related fields. It also provides inspiration for China's
medium and long-term sustainable development plans in the future.
As a continuation of 'Identity of Cities and City of Identities',
this book covers the arguments around the
memory-experience-cognition nexus concerning palimpsests and urban
places. As cities experience transitional phases of growth,
development, decline, and decay, the author urges considering the
notion of urban memory in place-making strategies and design
decision-making processes. These explorations would add value to
primary fields of architecture, architectural history, cognitive
science, human geography, and urbanism. Divided into eight
chapters, this book puts together a comprehensive knowledge of
urban memory in city transitions. By studying urban memory, the
author delves into conceptions of mental mapping, knowledge of
environments, cognition of places, and the perceptual dimension of
urbanism. Undoubtedly, urban memory plays a significant part in the
future movements of humanistic urbanism. Given the significances of
scale, pace, and mode of city transitions globally, we should
remember who are the ultimate users of those living environments.
Therefore, in this book, the author debates two contradictions of
'memory of place vs. place of memory', and 'significance of place
vs. place of significance'. Each of these is believed to be a
paradox of its own, indicating places are significant through the
systematic networks of cities, memories are meaningful through the
neural information processing, and place memories are the essence
of urban identities. The book's ultimate goal is to demonstrate the
effectiveness of the space-time frame of place in making memorable
places. Through the comprehensive explorations of many global
examples, we can evaluate the significance of place in mind more
carefully. This is narrated based on the recognition of nostalgia
in cities, socio-temporal qualities in places, and the network of
processes in our minds. In return, the aim is to provide new
knowledge to make memorable cities, enhance social experiences, and
capture and value the significance of place in mind.
This book explores the hybridity of urban identities in multiple
dimensions and at multiple scales, how they form as catalysts and
mechanisms for urban transitions, and how they develop as city
branding strategies and urban regeneration methods. Due to rapid
globalisation, the notion of identity has become scarcer, more
fragile, and inarguably more important. Given the significance of
place and displacement for contemporary everyday life, and the
continuous advancement of technologies, identifying relations and
values that define humans and their environments in various ways
has become crucial. Divided into seven chapters, this book provides
extensive coverage of 'urban identity', an often-overlooked topic
in the fields of urbanism, urban geography, and urban design. It
approaches the topic from a novel dual perspective, by exploring
cities with tangible commonalities and shared strategies for
refining their identities, and by highlighting cities and urban
environments characterised by multiple identities. Based on a
decade of research in this field, the book provides a
multi-disciplinary perspective on urban identity. In addition to
comprehensive information for students, it offers a key reference
guide for urbanists, urban designers and geographers, architectural
and urban practitioners, decision-makers, and governing bodies
involved in urban development strategies.
This book considers the impact of climate change on cities,
advocating that people are the panaceas and antidote to mitigating
climate change, by enhancing their involvement in achieving
sustainable development Goals (SDGs). This leads to the development
of an SDG best practice participation template, which is supported
by an extensive checklist of the 'whats' and 'hows' in
participatory processes. Using case studies, extensive literature
reviews and meta-analysis to make a case for a people-centric and
integrated approach to sustainable urban development, it examines
the role of governance in climate change, focusing on decision
making processes, policies and regulations, as well as focusing on
the significance of a people-oriented approach on climate change
and cities. Through an extensive global outlook, this book
highlights bottom-up methods of implementing and achieving
sustainable urban development in the age of climate change. These
highlights should help to develop new mindsets, new strategies, new
directions and new policies, through which we can see a more
sustainable approach to urbanisation and urban development
globally, which can start 'equipping future generations with the
tools for them to help their future generations'.
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