The Sustainable City IV: Urban Regeneration and Sustainability Book

	The use of greenrooves for the mitigation of environmental problems in urban areas	3
	Urban architecture for the advancement of small-scale township enterprises : relevance of the scholarship	19
	International assessment of the environmental performance of housing, and prospects for sustainable cities	29
	Thermal characterisation of bio-based building materials	39
	Sustainable reconstruction and planning strategies for Afghan cities : conservation in cultural and environmental heritage	49
	History integrated urban transformation	61
	Historical centers : sustainable economic spaces, management for sustainable projects	71
	Sustainability in cities : the green areas and climatic comfort as fundamental parameters	83
	Speed in the sustainable city	95
	Sustainable regional development and provincial development planning : the case of Bolu	105
	Valuing the effects of urban road-network projects : a methodological proposal	115
	Mobile positioning in sustainability studies : the social positioning method in studying commuter's activity spaces in Tallinn	127
	Planning with PlaceMaker : complex indices for sustainable projects	137
	Green-switch : reducing the conflict between the industrial and the residential interface	147
	KiwiGrow : a community and environmental health framework for sustainable development	155
	On the way to gigapolises : can global urban development become sustainable?	169
	Seeking a unified urban systems theory	179
	What the "new Istanbul" shaped by capital makes one think ...	189
	Use of atmospheric modelling for the territorial planning of technological structures	199
	Urban regeneration of historic towns : regeneration strategies for Pauni, India	209
	Environmental policy integration in urban spatial planning : the approach of Rotterdam	219
	How many light globes does it take to change a footprint?	229
	Spatial-temporal changes of regional sustainability : an empirical study in Taiwan	239
	A critical analysis of regional planning in South Africa in the 21[superscript st] century	251
	Entropy and the city	263
	IRMA : a European project for a sustainable city concept	273
	When does stacking become vertical sprawl?	283
	Can elevated pedestrian walkways be sustainable?	293
	Structuring the world down to cities and sustainable air sharing	303
	Strategic (spatial) planning approach in Turkey : new expectations	313
	Anthropocentrism and sustainable development : oxymoron or symbiosis?	323
	Strategic urban design from a sustainable tourism perspective : a case study from the city of Guangzhou, China	333
	The ecological footprint of building construction	345
	From brownfield to blue sky : Sydney Harbour's renaissance	357
	A study on the future of urban models in the third millennium : a sustainable urban model for Kirikkale, Turkey	367
	Characterization of particulate matter from urban, industrial and rural environments	379
	Life cycle guarantors of sustainability	389
	Environmental management and numerical models : examples from long-term ecological research on a real case study	399
	Recycling programs in partnership with scavenger associations as a sustainability factor in metropolitan Sao Paulo, Brazil	409
	On energy requirements and potential energy savings in Italian hospital buildings	419
	Wind and environmental effects on overhead high voltage transmission lines	433
	Capacity building for effective municipal environmental management in South Africa	445
	Minimization of adverse environmental effects of a sports complex through implementation of green management	457
	Strategic spatial planning and environmental management : the impact of Guanabara Bay Cleaning Programme in Rio de Janeiro	467
	Rational environmental goals and sustainable planning	477
	Environmental accounting of buildings : outcomes from the emergy analysis	489
	The emergy synthesis for the Province of Pescara (Italy) and strategic choices for a sustainable development	499
	Sustainability of energy use in Estonian settlements and regions	509
	Emergy approach for the environmental sustainability assessment of the urban water system of Genoa (NW Italy)	521
	Hydrogen city	531
	Final architecture diploma projects in the analysis of the UPC buildings energy performance	541
	Making liveable and sustainable major urban streets : the case of Begin Road in Tel-Aviv - Jaffa	551
	Development of sustainable traffic planning : analysis of Danish planning visions 2005 and 2015	561
	The ethics of mobility : a framework for assessing mobility paradigms	569
	Relevant aspects of automobile user behaviour : a study under the sustainable consumption concept in the transportation sector	579
	Effects of a non-motorized transport infrastructure development in the Bucharest metropolitan area	589
	Is the pedestrian city relevant to the sustainable city? : mobility, urbanization and health	599
	Evaluating walking promotion policies with regard to mobility representations, appropriations and practices in public space	607
	Suburbanisation and commuting modes in the Tallinn metropolitan area	621
	Assessment of the sustainability of the street network in Kaunas city	631
	Analysis of transport modes in the urban environment : an application for a sustainable mobility system	637
	First study on mobility for a medium size town : Ciudad Real, a Spanish experience	647
	Sustainable urban transport development : a modelling approach	659
	The burglar as a space explorer in his own neighborhood	671
	New urbanism and Chicago	681
	Community-based quality of life indicators for urban areas as derived in Galway City, Ireland	691
	Space for community - the study of resident involvement in neighbourhood space management	703
	The neighbourhood imperative in the sustainable city	713
	Linking perceptions of health to neighbourhood environment in the Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal	723
	Community in the city? : social exclusion in neighbourhoods in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada	733
	Sustainability knowledge, attitude and practices of Malaysians	743
	Community participation in urban renewal projects : experiences and challenges of the case of Johannesburg, South Africa	753
	Small and medium-sized enterprises, employment generation and regional development in Estonia	765
	Sustainable Scotland : putting environmental justice at the heart of the policy agenda?	775
	Urban environmental quality : perceptions and measures in three UK cities	785
	Pedestrian safety at urban crossings in Estonia	797
	Towards an integral accessible public area in the city	807
	The survey of drinking water supply in Estonia from the point of view of public health	817