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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Sustainable urban design"”.
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Sustainable urban design in China
What constitutes sustainable architecture? Clearly, this is a question very much in vogue nowadays, and contemporary responses have been framed for the most part by topics such as new building technologies, energy conservation, climatically and environmentally responsive design, recyclable …
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Generative Urbanism toward Thermal Synergy: Sustainable urban design for district heating and cooling
Thermal performance has a long legacy in urban morphology, where the climate is interpreted explicitly in the forms of settlements. Mediating the temperature has taken a large portion in the energy sector since modern times. Besides the passive techniques, a closer observation of the space …
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Detecting Expertise Influence on Teamwork in Sustainable Urban Design Workshops through a System Model
The design of sustainable urban communities near transportation hubs, such as train stations, may play a vital role in enhancing neighborhoods by fostering new jobs, encouraging mixed-use developments, and promoting a cleaner environment. The engagement of experts and non-experts is often promoted …
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Ecovillages as models for sustainable urban neighborhoods : design guidelines and methods for understanding, analyzing and designing sustainable communities
… practices is that there is an absence of truly sustainable, community-oriented housing options on the market that are economically empowering, socially just, and which enhance the ecology of place by building all forms of capital-- economic capital, social capital, and environmental capital. …
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Sustainability assessment and visualisation in urban environments
… development of a novel decision support tool for sustainable decision making in urban environments. The Sustainable City Visualisation Tool (S-City VT) uses a sub-modelling approach coupled with 3D visualisation to support sustainable decision making and has been designed to engage non-expert and …
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Locally appropriate sustainable urban form: the case of Sukhumvit Superblock
… basic needs ought to be integrated to achieve sustainable urban form. A specific framework for defining global and local sustainability and ways in which they can be accommodated and delivered through locally distinctive patterns of form is central to the current research. The aim of the …
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URBAN REGENERATIVE DESIGN A PROTOTYPE DESIGN DECISION SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES OF THE FUTURE
… a benchmark for achieving a self-sufficient urban sustainable design solution albeit with the understanding that such a benchmark may never be attained by urban designers fully. The past decade has seen a motivation to develop, apply and assess sustainable solutions through a comprehensive …