Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures: Impacts on Architecture and Technology

✍ Scribed by Frank Duffy (auth.), Stamatina Th. Rassia, Panos M. Pardalos (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Series: Energy Systems
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures presents works written by eminent international experts from a variety of disciplines including architecture, engineering and related fields. Due to the ever-increasing focus on sustainable technologies, alternative energy sources, and global social and urban issues, interest in the energy systems for cities of the future has grown in a wealth of disciplines. Some of the special features of this book include new findings on the city of the future from the macro to the micro level. These range from urban sustainability to indoor urbanism, and from strategies for cities and global climate change to material properties. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers active in architecture, engineering, the social and computational sciences, building physics and related fields.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
A Time and a Place for Everything....Pages 1-7
Smart Cities of Tomorrow....Pages 9-20
Rethinking Urban Landscapes: Self-Supported Infrastructure, Technology and Territory....Pages 23-53
Invincible Cities for the Materiomic Age....Pages 55-99
Qualitative Affects of Building Life Cycle: The Formation of Architectural Matter....Pages 101-113
Other Cities....Pages 115-131
Urban Parangolé....Pages 133-151
High Performance Buildings: Measures, Complexity, and Current Trends....Pages 153-163
Eco-cities: The Role of Networks of Green and Blue Spaces....Pages 165-178
Decarbonising City Precincts: An Australian Perspective....Pages 179-197
The Rebirth of Distance in the Context of Urban Sustainability....Pages 199-213
Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures: Urban Heat Island Mitigation Techniques for Sustainable Cities....Pages 215-233
Building Conservation Towards a Sustainable Future: Use of GPR....Pages 235-243
Evaluation of the Shading Efficiency of the Shading Devices Installed in the Tram Stations in Athens....Pages 245-258
Modeling and Control of Large and Flexible Wind Turbines in Variable Speed Mode....Pages 259-270
Sustainable Design for Campus Residential Housing....Pages 271-281
House Biographies: Housing Studies on the Smallest Urban Scale....Pages 283-290
For the Smarter Good of Cities: On Cities, Complexity and Slippages in the Smart City Discourse....Pages 291-303

✦ Subjects

Environmental Economics; Energy Policy, Economics and Management; Energy Systems; Cities, Countries, Regions; Civil Engineering