Design For Biocities
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Design For Biocities
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Author : Laia Pifarre
language : en
Publisher: Actar D, Inc.
Release Date : 2023-01-19
Design For Biocities written by Laia Pifarre and has been published by Actar D, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-19 with Architecture categories.
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) calls its 9th Advanced Architecture Contest as a global reflection to rethink human settlements at a time when our natural environments and the human habitats are more clearly intertwined. We look to the model of Biocities, cities that follow the principles of ecological principles in order to promote life and biodiversity, to provide us with potential design solutions. How can we reimagine our cities as Biocities, capable of creating an ecologically attuned and reciprocal relationship with nature? This year’s competition challenges students and professionals from all over the world to propose how to design urban spaces, cities, buildings, objects, or solutions of any scale, directed towards the transition to Biocities. The contest encourages participants to propose a design at any scale, anywhere in the world, that reflects different cultural, environmental, economic, or social conditions.
Transforming Biocities
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Author : Giuseppe E. Scarascia-Mugnozza
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-07-06
Transforming Biocities written by Giuseppe E. Scarascia-Mugnozza and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-06 with Science categories.
This edited volume centers around the concept of BioCities, which aim to unify nature and urban spaces in order to reverse the effects of global climate change and inequity. Following this principle, the authors propose multiple approaches for sustainable city growth. The discussed concepts are not only relevant for newly constructed cities, but offer transformative perspectives for existing settlements as well. Placing nature at the forefront of city planning is not an entirely new concept, so the authors build on established ideas like the garden city, green city, eco-city, or smart city. All chapters aim to highlight aspects to develop a city that is a resilient nature-based socio-ecological system. Many of these concepts were formed in an effort to copy the best traits of a forest ecosystem: a home for many different species that build complex communities. Much like many of our forests, urban areas are managed by humans for multifunctional purposes, using living and abiotic components. This viewpoint helps to understand the potential and limitations of sustainable growth. With these chapters, the authors want to inspire planners, ecologists, urban foresters and decision makers of the future.
General Theory Of Urbanization 1867
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Author : Ildefons Cerdà
language : en
Publisher: Actar D, Inc.
Release Date : 2022-02-04
General Theory Of Urbanization 1867 written by Ildefons Cerdà and has been published by Actar D, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-04 with Architecture categories.
First translation into English on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of the General Theory of Urbanization 1867 by Ildefons Cerdà, an essential work on urban development. In 1867 Ildefons Cerdà published his “Teoria general de la urbanitzación”. In this text, the “science of building cities”, understood as a phenomenon, became a new discipline with a broad economic, social and cultural impact on the life of the people of the city. Coinciding with 150 years since its publication, its first translation into English is being presented along with the publishing online at urbanization.org with the statistics transformed into interactive graphics and open data, with the aim of expanding the knowledge of Cerdà’s work and encouraging debate on the process of “urbanization” in the future. Co-published with the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in collaboration with the Diputació de Barcelona, the Generalitat de Catalunya through Incasòl. Bloomberg Philanthropies contributed as a collaborator for the international di usion of the project.
Resilience In Ecology And Urban Design
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Author : S.T.A. Pickett
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-01-13
Resilience In Ecology And Urban Design written by S.T.A. Pickett and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-13 with Science categories.
The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative urban design, as urban areas exemplify complex systems. With something approaching half of the world’s population now residing in coastal urban zones, many of which are vulnerable both to floods originating inland and rising sea levels, making urban areas more robust in the face of environmental threats must be a policy ambition of the highest priority. The complexity of urban areas results from their spatial heterogeneity, their intertwined material and energy fluxes, and the integration of social and natural processes. All of these features can be altered by intentional planning and design. The complex, integrated suite of urban structures and processes together affect the adaptive resilience of urban systems, but also presupposes that planners can intervene in positive ways. As examples accumulate of linkage between sustainability and building/landscape design, such as the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park and Toronto’s Lower Don River area, this book unites the ideas, data, and insights of ecologists and related scientists with those of urban designers. It aims to integrate a formerly atomized dialog to help both disciplines promote urban resilience.
Nature Positive Circular Bioeconomy Sustainable Biomass Biobased Products Organic Waste Recycling And Regenerative Land Use For Climate Biodiversity And Resource Efficiency
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Author : Robert C. Brears
language : en
Publisher: Global Climate Solutions
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Nature Positive Circular Bioeconomy Sustainable Biomass Biobased Products Organic Waste Recycling And Regenerative Land Use For Climate Biodiversity And Resource Efficiency written by Robert C. Brears and has been published by Global Climate Solutions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Science categories.
Nature-Positive Circular Bioeconomy is a practical guide to building sustainable systems using biomass, biobased products, and organic waste recycling. This book provides real-world solutions for reducing resource use, increasing material circularity, and restoring ecosystems through regenerative land use, circular economy strategies, and climate-positive practices. Designed for professionals, policymakers, and sustainability practitioners, it shows how to align biobased systems with biodiversity protection, carbon reduction, and waste management goals. Inside this book, you will learn how to: Use sustainable biomass to replace fossil-based raw materials in food, energy, and industrial applications Design and manage biobased products that are recyclable, compostable, and made from renewable biological resources Build systems for organic waste recycling including composting, anaerobic digestion, and biogas production Apply regenerative agriculture and land restoration techniques to increase soil health and carbon sequestration Implement circular economy strategies for reducing waste and closing material loops in supply chains Integrate waste-to-resource technologies into city-region food systems and industrial operations Use natural capital accounting and biodiversity metrics to monitor and report environmental performance Develop science-based targets for climate and biodiversity within circular bioeconomy frameworks Improve public procurement and consumer awareness to drive demand for sustainable biobased products Support industrial symbiosis and regional bioeconomy hubs to scale local circular systems This book is a complete resource for professionals working on sustainable biomass, biobased products, organic waste recycling, and regenerative land use. It offers proven tools and actionable strategies for building circular bioeconomy systems that deliver results for climate, biodiversity, and resource efficiency.
Architecture And Design For Industry 4 0
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Author : Maurizio Barberio
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-10-06
Architecture And Design For Industry 4 0 written by Maurizio Barberio and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-06 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book collects contributions of forefront research and practices related to the use of the enabling technologies of Industry 4.0 in the architecture and design fields and their impact on the UN's Sustainable Developments goals. The book is structured into three sections (research, practice, and technologies), with the goal of creating a new framework useful for widespread awareness necessary to initiate technology transfer processes for the benefit of the public sector, universities, research centers, and innovative companies, and a new professional figure capable of controlling the entire process is essential. Thus, the book chapters arouse a series of relevant topics such as computational and parametric design, performance-based architecture, data-driven design strategies, parametric environmental design and analysis, computational and parametric structural design and analysis, AI and machine learning, BIM and interoperability, VR and AR, digital and robotic fabrication, additive manufacturing and 3D printing, R&D and entrepreneurship, circular architecture, and didactics. In the post-digital era, where the essence of design lies in the control and information of the process that holistically involves all the aspects mentioned above, rather than in formal research, it is necessary to understand technologies and analyze the advantages that they can bring in terms of environmental sustainability and product innovation.
More Than Human Design In Practice
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Author : Anton Poikolainen Rosén
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-11-29
More Than Human Design In Practice written by Anton Poikolainen Rosén and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-29 with Design categories.
This book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-human design in posthumanism while putting practical design examples and methods to the forefront. There is an urgent need to radically re-imagine design, as its current processes are contributing to global warming, pollution, deforestation, ocean acidification, ozone layer depletion, loss of biodiversity and species extinction. Given this need, ‘more-than-human design’ has emerged as a perspective that widens our thinking beyond solely human-oriented considerations and needs, such as animals, plants and microbes. The book explores the relationship between sustainability and design, touching on topics such as AI, systems thinking, futures studies and pedagogy, and discusses a range of case study projects that are grounded in more-than-human thinking, demonstrating how this can be incorporated into practice. This easily accessible and theoretically grounded book will provide design researchers and educators an excellent introduction to more-than-human thinking. It will also be of interest to students and scholars studying design more broadly, sustainability, environmental studies and service design, as well as to practicing designers interested in sustainability. Chapters Introduction, 7, 10 and 15 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Designing Sustainable And Resilient Cities
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Author : Alessandro Melis
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-27
Designing Sustainable And Resilient Cities written by Alessandro Melis and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-27 with Architecture categories.
This book explores the link between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. Using data from Urban Living Labs in six participating cities (Eindhoven, Gdańsk, Miami, Southend-on-Sea, Taipei, and Uppsala) to co-define context-specific challenges, the results from each city are collated into an Integrated Decision Support System to guide and improve robust decision-making on future urban development. The book presents contributions from CRUNCH, a transdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners whose expertise spans urban climate modelling; food, water, and energy management; the design of resilient public space; collecting better urban data; and the development of smart city technology. Whilst previous works on the Food-Water-Energy nexus have focused on large, transnational cases, this book explores local ways to use the Food-Water-Energy nexus to improve urban resilience. It suggests tangible ways in which the cities and communities around us can become both more efficient and more climate resilient through small changes to their existing infrastructure. Over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and this is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. We urgently need to make our cities more resilient. This book provides a planning tool for decision-making and concludes with policy recommendations, making it relevant to a range of audiences including urbanists, environmentalists, architects, urban designers, and city planners, as well as students and scholars interested in alternative approaches to sustainability and resilience. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Emerging Approaches In Design And New Connections With Nature
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Author : Özdamar, Esen Gökçe
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2021-12-03
Emerging Approaches In Design And New Connections With Nature written by Özdamar, Esen Gökçe and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-03 with Architecture categories.
In today’s changing and transforming socio-economic, political, cultural, and technological paradigms, we encounter many methodologies, approaches, proposals, and practices in reconsidering the disappearing or emerging relations in the human/nonhuman-environment-nature interaction. These approaches, proposals, and practices range from new methods of urban gardening to biophilic design and augmented/immersive environments. However, these human-centric approaches, which only aim to meet their needs or emerge as technology-oriented replicas and representations of nature, lead to a departure from a holistic approach to the natural and artificial environment. Therefore, how can new and emerging approaches or methodologies draw a holistic framework for environmental health, sustainability, wellness, and co-existence between environments for all living beings? Emerging Approaches in Design and New Connections With Nature covers a variety of topics related to the intersection between nature, environment, and ways of living and provides a comprehensive guide to biophilic design and the idea of design and nature, including benefits, theories, and effects. Covering topics such as biophilic design and sustainability, soundscapes and landscapes, and urban environments and design, it is ideal for architects, designers, urban planners, landscape designers, policymakers, engineers, interior designers, practitioners, students, academicians, and researchers.
Speculative Geographies
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Author : Nina Williams
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-11-03
Speculative Geographies written by Nina Williams and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with Social Science categories.
This book explores how speculative thinking is shaping how we relate to our entangled social, mental, and environmental ecologies. It examines how speculative philosophies and concepts are changing geographical research methods and techniques, whilst also developing how speculative thinking transforms the way human, non-human, and more-than-human things are conceptualised in research practices across the social sciences, arts, and humanities. Offering the first dedicated compendium of geographical engagements with speculation and speculative thinking, the chapters in this edited collection advance debates about how affective, imperceptible, and infra-sensible qualities of environments might be written about through alternative registers and ontologies of experience. Organised around the themes of Ethics, Technologies, and Aesthetics, the book will appeal to those engaging with architecture, Black political theory, fiction, cinema, children’s geographies, biotechnologies, philosophy, rural studies, arts practice, and nuclear waste studies as speculative research practices appropriate for addressing contemporary ecological problems. Chapters 1, 3 and 4 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.