Title:
The sustainable city : urban regeneration and sustainability
Series:
International series on advances in architecture
Publication Information:
Southampton, Boston : WIT Press, 2000
ISBN:
9781853128110
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Summary
Summary
All over the world cities are facing major social, environmental and planning problems which compete for scarce resources, and which threaten to tear at their foundations. This work contains papers presented at the First International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability. The contributions come from professionals and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines and aim to identify the best policies for a viable urban environment in the 21st century.
Table of Contents
Preface | p. xiii |
Section 1 Strategy and Development | |
Sustainable cities: future challenges and research issues | p. 3 |
SiGOS: strategic organizational management for sustainable development | p. 13 |
Analysis of the state of the environment, Local Agenda 21 realisation and preparing for EU accession for the city of Maribor | p. 21 |
Local economic development - An application in the strengthening of the productive chain for decorative stones in Santo Antonio de Padua - RJ | p. 31 |
The quaternary city | p. 41 |
The constitutive elements of SandT public policy towards sustainable development | p. 47 |
Uncertainty and advantages of energy conservation programs in Brazil | p. 59 |
Section 2 Environmental Management and Pollution | |
Environmental conditions in the state of Rio de Janeiro | p. 69 |
The sustainable city: a Swedish research programme | p. 81 |
The city and the agricultural sector inter-relationship: environmental costs and benefits | p. 85 |
Urban environmental quality indicators | p. 95 |
Pollution of Moscow air in winter: a GC-MS study of snow samples | p. 103 |
Brownfields redevelopment as a catalyst for creating sustainable cities | p. 113 |
Trees and urban life quality: A case study on spatial segregation in the municipality of Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | p. 123 |
Relationship between the different players to help industries meet the requirement to have an efficient environmental management system | p. 129 |
The accounting information as a support to sustainable development | p. 139 |
Urban drainage case study - watershed of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | p. 149 |
Integrated geographical information system (GIS) for urban solid waste management | p. 159 |
Application of biotechnology concepts in the treatment of petroleum residues | p. 171 |
Waste recycling and the sustainable city | p. 185 |
Performance evaluation and eco-efficiency coefficients | p. 193 |
Characterization of carbonate rocks from Rio de Janeiro for gas emission control | p. 203 |
Rehabilitation of the stream Machadinho | p. 213 |
Drag reducing effects in district heating networks | p. 219 |
Section 3 Land Use and Management | |
A study of quality over hillside development in Taipei County area | p. 231 |
Desire-based multi-objective land use planning: a case study | p. 241 |
Land management of the mid-South Paraiba river valley | p. 251 |
Section 4 Transport Environment and Integration | |
Urban transport - the virtual source for sustainability of a city | p. 263 |
Transport policy in Riga | p. 273 |
Sustainable transportation: the key to sustainable cities | p. 281 |
Proposal for a sustainable transportation-traffic system for the City of Buenos Aires | p. 291 |
Alternatives to improve the accessibility and environment in urban centres | p. 303 |
Challenges to the urban collective transport sector for the Brazilian sustainable development | p. 313 |
Section 5 Cultural Heritage and Architectural Issues | |
Preservation planning as a tool for a sustainable historic city | p. 327 |
Urban conservation in Kenya: a re-think of sustainable strategies | p. 337 |
Chromatic identification of townscape image | p. 347 |
Section 6 Planning, Development and Management | |
The sustainable street - major premises for street design | p. 361 |
Identifying sustainable neighborhoods: An empirical exploration of threshold effects | p. 371 |
Innovation and competitive clusters: a review of key concepts | p. 381 |
Planning and sustainability - good and bad practices in Rio, Sao Paulo and Lisbon | p. 393 |
Interactive model for urban management | p. 403 |
The national plan for the use of water resources and its consequences to states and municipalities | p. 415 |
Environmental conditionings and industrial zoning in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro | p. 427 |
Inner-city renewal and locational stability of the poor: a study of inner-city renewal program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | p. 437 |
Urban public housing policy: a comparative case study of Louisville (US) and Jinan (China) | p. 447 |
Lakes, rivers and cities | p. 459 |
Analysis of five Dutch sustainable urban plans | p. 469 |
Section 7 Restructuring and Renewal | |
Paradigms for rebuilding the central city: urban, suburban or neo-traditional | p. 485 |
Crisis and restructuring of Brazil's urban-industrial development model | p. 495 |
Section 8 The Community and the City | |
The structural nature of intra-generational conflict and its implication for sustainability | p. 509 |
Solidarity networks in the urban space: a study of a volunteering headquarter in Belo Horizonte, Brazil | p. 519 |
Power sharing, self-management and sustainable communities: lessons from the UK in new forms of landlord tenant relationships | p. 529 |
Training impact evaluation: individual and situational predictors | p. 541 |
The Catacumba Trail environmental project | p. 553 |
The image as a determinant factor of local development: lies and contributions | p. 561 |
The challenges of a government strategy of training of local leaderships | p. 571 |
Section 9 Public Safety and Security | |
Violence and health: an intersectorial approach | p. 581 |
The reconstruction of the public safety system of the state of Mato Grosso | p. 591 |
Index of Authors | p. 599 |