Health, Wellbeing and Sustainability in the Mediterranean City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367662400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 188 str.

Antonio Jim?nez-Delgado; Jaime Lloret

Opis

This book provides a model for the creation of sustainable and healthy cities in the Mediterranean region. It uses the coastal city of L’Alfàs del Pi in Spain as an example for designing renewable and innovative urban models that offer high standards of living, wellbeing and eco-friendly advantages.

Spis treści

Preface: Health, wellness and sustainability, from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean
Prologue

1. Research on Mediterranean Cities: a short introduction of the interdisciplinary perspectives
2. Analysis and definition of the social, cultural and economic structure and dynamics
3. Exchange and hybridization between disciplines in research and projection of healthy territories in the European Mediterranean basin
4. Preservation of tangible and intangible heritage in Mediterranean cities: research tools and protection action
5. Smart urban development in the Mediterranean city: an assessment framework
6. Exploring the (re)construction of healthy destinations in the Mediterranean
7. Citizen participation in natural and sociocultural landscape: methodology and main results
8. L’Alfàs del Pi: mental maps
9. Urban and interurban mobility, green corridor definitions and strategies of intervention
10. Preliminary assessment practices for the definition of tools and goals of landscape quality in Mediterranean settlements: L’Alfàs del Pi as a case study
11. Domestic environment monitoring and its influence on quality of life
12. Landmark preservation criteria and BIM methodology
13. The use of IoT and AI to achieve the water efficiency in urban environments

Index

O autorze

Antonio Jiménez-Delgado is Professor in Architectural Constructions at the University of Alicante, Spain. He is Director of the AEDIFICATIO International Research Group (BUILDING. Technology, research and development).

Jaime Lloret is Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. He is also the Chair of the Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute (IGIC).