Technologies for Sustainable Urban Design and Bioregionalist Regeneration

ISBN-13: 9781138547186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str.

Dora Francese

Opis

This book explores the role of technology in ecological urban design and regeneration.

Spis treści

Presentation (Mayor of Naples)  Introduction: The environmental design at reduced foot-print. Bioregionalist technologies and materials.  Part I: Investigation of the urban systems according to the technological approach to the environmental design  1. A new strategy for the city: sustainable regeneration.  2. The bioregionalist vision of environmental design  3. Zero Km materials and products suitable for urban regeneration  4. Recycling and waste as resource for the urban and social transformations  5. The contribution of an assorted expertise: how to guarantee subsidiarity and integration.  Part II: Technological approach to environmental design. Application to some Urban case-studies  Introduction  1. Urban squares  2. The oblique city  3. Urban Waterfront  4. Decayed suburbs  Part III: Technological approach to environmental design. Application to peri- urban case-studies  Introduction  1. Touristic waterfronts  2. Disused industrial areas  3. Hyper-commercial areas  4. Wetlands  5. Peri-urban parks  Conclusion

O autorze

Dora Francese is a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Naples, Italy.