This book explores how people across Asia live, struggle, and make sense of the sorts of environmental ruptures, fast and slow, that now shape the region. The chapters ask how we might analyze this moment of rupture and risk. How do we think about disasters that seem to occur in…
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This book explores how people across Asia live, struggle, and make sense of the sorts of environmental ruptures, fast and slow, that now shape the region. The chapters ask how we might analyze this moment of rupture and risk. How do we think about disasters that seem to occur in…
This book explores how people across Asia live, struggle, and make sense of the sorts of environmental ruptures, fast and slow, that now shape the region. The chapters ask how we might analyze this moment of rupture and risk. How do we think about disasters that seem to occur in…
Across contemporary Asia, each day dawns with a new story about living in an era of profound environmental change. Rapid transformations in the landscape, society, and technology produce new conflicts that are experienced at nearly every scale of life in the region. Environmenta…
Around the world, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners are working to ensure cities and communities are prepared for the challenges and opportunities of aged and highly urbanised populations. Bringing together stakeholders from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America…
This book focuses on the latest cutting-edge research for achieving sustainable development goals during urbanisation in the Belt and Road Initiative Era. The book aims on tackling urban challenges on social and environmental issues. The book is a compilation of selected papers …
Following on from the success of the first edition, this book is the latest innovative response on urban resilience from one of the world's leading urban design and architectural thinkers. An ecological symbiosis between nature, society and the built form, the Smartcity cultivat…
Following on from the success of the first edition, this book is the latest innovative response on urban resilience from one of the world's leading urban design and architectural thinkers. An ecological symbiosis between nature, society and the built form, the Smartcity cultivat…
Introduction: a new paradigm for the built environment -- Why re-green the built environment? -- Ecological design, energy, & waste -- Land conservation & preservation -- Auto-alternative transportation: a catalyst for greenspace -- Roadways -- Parking surfaces -- Buildings & ro…
"Regreening the Built Environment examines the relationship between the built environment and nature and demonstrates how rethinking the role and design of infrastructure can environmentally, economically, and socially sustain the earth. In the past, infrastructure and green or …
"Regreening the Built Environment examines the relationship between the built environment and nature and demonstrates how rethinking the role and design of infrastructure can environmentally, economically, and socially sustain the earth. In the past, infrastructure and green or …
