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Much of the anticipated future growth in the United States will
take place in suburbia. The critical challenge is how to
accommodate this growth in a sustainable and resilient manner. This
book explores the role of suburban tall as a viable, sustainable
alternative to continued suburban sprawl. It identifies 10 spatial
patterns in which tall buildings have been integrated into the
American suburbs. The study concludes that the Tall Building and
Transit-Oriented-Development (TB-TOD) model is the most appropriate
to promote sustainable suburbanism. The findings are based on
analyzing over 300 projects in 24 suburban communities within three
major metropolitan areas including: Washington, DC, Miami, Florida,
and Chicago, Illinois. The book furnishes planning strategies that
address the social, economic, and environmental aspects of
sustainable tall building development. It also discusses
sustainable architectural design and site planning strategies and
provides case studies of sustainable tall buildings that were
successfully integrated into suburban settings.
In recent years, the rapid pace of tall building construction has
fostered a certain kind of placelessness, with many new tall
buildings being built out of scale, context and place. By analyzing
hundreds of tall buildings and by providing hundreds of visuals
that inspire, stimulate and engage, Understanding Tall Buildings
contends that well-designed tall buildings can rejuvenate cities,
ignite economic activity, support social life and boost city pride.
Although this book does not claim to possess all the solutions, it
does propose specific tall building design guidelines that may help
to promote placemaking. Through this work, it is the author's hope
that ill-conceived developments will become less common in the
future and that good placemaking will become the norm, not the
exception. This book is a must-read for students and practitioners
working to create better tall buildings and better urban
environments.
Much of the anticipated future growth in the United States will
take place in suburbia. The critical challenge is how to
accommodate this growth in a sustainable and resilient manner. This
book explores the role of suburban tall as a viable, sustainable
alternative to continued suburban sprawl. It identifies 10 spatial
patterns in which tall buildings have been integrated into the
American suburbs. The study concludes that the Tall Building and
Transit-Oriented-Development (TB-TOD) model is the most appropriate
to promote sustainable suburbanism. The findings are based on
analyzing over 300 projects in 24 suburban communities within three
major metropolitan areas including: Washington, DC, Miami, Florida,
and Chicago, Illinois. The book furnishes planning strategies that
address the social, economic, and environmental aspects of
sustainable tall building development. It also discusses
sustainable architectural design and site planning strategies and
provides case studies of sustainable tall buildings that were
successfully integrated into suburban settings.
The rapid increase in urban population, land prices and land
preservation, urban regeneration, as well as globalization and
climate change have been forcing cities to build upward. High-rises
can be part of a more sustainable solution if the construction and
engineering challenges are addressed before construction starts.
Smart technologies are being integrated in the digital environment
to allow for better energy efficiency, safety and security, and to
maximize the health and well-being of the occupants. Delivered by a
team of world leading experts, this comprehensive edited book
covers the state-of-the-art of advanced research, innovations, and
future perspectives towards sustainable high-rise buildings. The
book is structured in three parts from architecture to engineering
and city planning including sustainable environmental systems,
skybridges, curtain walling resiliency, tall timber buildings,
sustainable structural engineering, core design and space
efficiency. It also includes seismic design, mass-damping-based
approaches, innovative bio-polymeric agro-based materials,
high-rises versus sprawl, transit-oriented development, mobility
and urban space networks, resilience thinking, and interdependence
of tall buildings and the city. Architects, engineers, researchers,
energy and facility managers, urban designers, project planners and
developers, and smart building solutions experts as well as faculty
members, postdocs, advanced students who are working in the fields
of the built environment, building construction, system design,
civil engineering, architecture, urban planning, smart cities,
sustainability and resiliency and environmental engineering, and
who are exploring sustainable building practices, will find this
new advanced reference most useful and inspiring.
Sustainable Engineering for Life Tomorrow examines the future of
sustainable engineering and architecture. The contributors'
analyses of sustainable solutions, such as wind and solar power,
offer valuable insights for future policy-making, scholarship, and
the management of energy-intensive facilities.
Sustainable Engineering for Life Tomorrow examines the future of
sustainable engineering and architecture. The contributors'
analyses of sustainable solutions, such as wind and solar power,
offer valuable insights fur future policy-making, scholarship, and
the management of energy-intensive facilities.
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