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Section 1 Strategy and development
Emergy flows and sustainable indicators: the strategic environmental assessment for a master plan	p. 3
Existing infrastructures: a restriction for real sustainable development?	p. 11
Sustainable high-density environments	p. 21
Developing the urban metabolism approach into a new urban metabolic model	p. 31
Planning within a global sight: the structural plan of Ravenna and the emergy storage assessment	p. 41
Section 2 Planning, development and management
Crises and innovation in sustainable city planning	p. 53
Understanding developers' perspectives in sustainable urban design	p. 63
Urban planning motivations and sustainable development of the territory	p. 73
The Total Planning Doctrine and Putrajaya development	p. 81
Climate indicators for cities	p. 91
Slum development in Ahvaz with emphasis on the All-E-Saffi sector	p. 103
Ningbo--A new sustainable city for China	p. 111
Section 3 Environmental management
The ecological footprint analysis for the Province of Venice and the relevance of tourism	p. 123
Sustainable development at local level and "anthropic resilience": sustainability indicators from the SPIn-ECO project	p. 133
Using satellite data for a territorial indicator in Tuscany	p. 143
Environmental consequences of rapid urbanization in warm, arid lands: case study of Phoenix, Arizona (USA)	p. 155
Certification as a tool for environmental management	p. 165
Administrative and institutional set up for environmental management in Malaysia as compared with the U.K. and U.S.	p. 171
Environmental crises in the Metropolises of Iran	p. 179
The sustainable management of resources in the mitigation of the risk of desertification in the Apulia region	p. 189
Section 4 Cultural heritage and architectural issues
Certification of building eco-compatibility and durability: application to new and existing buildings	p. 203
Complexity and sustainability: relief and representation of the new urban identity	p. 211
Humber Centre for Excellence in the Built Environment	p. 223
Deciphering urban cultural heritage, community and the city	p. 233
Strategies for building pathology reports in a rehabilitation process: In the old city centre of Coimbra	p. 247
Wooden towns--cultural heritage in decay	p. 257
Re-use of historic buildings in North Cyprus	p. 267
Growing art and museums in Miami: some success stories	p. 277
The influence of architectural culture on the energetic skills of less developed countries	p. 283
Sustainability of the historical Ottoman village Cumalikizik in Turkey	p. 293
Section 5 Land use and management
The 'park of the 21st century': agriculture in the city	p. 303
The role of lagoon in an emergy territorial evaluation for Venice	p. 315
Factors leading to buildings being demolished and probability of remainder	p. 325
The role of urban parks for the sustainability of cities	p. 335
Sustainable development of South Africa's rural areas	p. 345
Section 6 Restructuring and renewal
Sustainable urban regenerative process and densification: theory and practice	p. 357
The search for the most eco-efficient strategies for sustainable housing transformations	p. 369
From depopulation to repopulation: the shift of population development in central city areas	p. 379
Section 7 Spatial configuration and landscaping
Landscape and rural territories in sustainable contemporary cities: the Italian case in Tuscany	p. 393
A study on the regional landscape planning framework on the relationships between urban and rural areas: case study of Tokachi region, Hokkaido, Japan	p. 401
Configurations and urban sustainability	p. 411
Section 8 Socio-economic issues
Social impact assessment in urban planning	p. 423
Sustainable development on the periphery: responding to problems of socio-economic marginalisation	p. 431
How to integrate social and environmental aspects in housing and urban policies: some experiences from France and Germany	p. 443
The role of retail commerce in the sustainability of cities	p. 453
Current trends in spatial-economic restructuring in urban South Africa	p. 463
Creative communities: the arts, social responsibility and sustainable planning and development	p. 473
Economic-environmental scenario simulations to measure sustainable development in Taiwan	p. 483
Section 9 The community and the city
The merging of community sustainability with enhanced environmental performance: a local government case study	p. 495
Educating communities for sustainability: living smart in the City of Fremantle, Western Australia	p. 505
Proper planning and citizen participation as prerequisites for the successful design of a modern tramway system: lessons learnt from the Athens Tramway example	p. 515
Community friendly arterial: redesigning urban arterials to support redevelopment initiatives	p. 529
Section 10 Public safety and security
Risk assessment for a high-pressure natural gas pipeline in an urban area	p. 541
An approach to assess and manage the risk of an urban LPG station in Korea	p. 549
Ampacity of buried cables in trenches filled with recycled concrete	p. 559
Reduction of magnetic pollution in urban areas by an active field cancellation	p. 569
Underground power cables in urban areas: a simple technique for the passive shielding of the magnetic field	p. 581
Section 11 Conservation of resources
Enhancement of sustainability in cities through water conservation: the case of the Wilmington Metropolitan City, Delaware	p. 593
Energy rehabilitation of a nursery school in Sicily: winter and summer behaviours	p. 603
Section 12 Traffic and transportation
Intelligent transportation systems for a sustainable city	p. 615
"Sustainable town" by appointment-was not enough!	p. 623
Road pricing and effect on urban freight	p. 633
Control logic for the energetic management for new generation hybrid vehicles	p. 643
TravelSMART Schools: there really is a better way to go!	p. 653
Towards sustainable local urban road pavements	p. 663
The use of layered recycled aggregate concrete barriers in targeting urban noise	p. 673
CO dispersion models for signalized road intersections: Gaussian vs. empirical approach	p. 683
Section 13 Urban waste management
Integral restructuring of an existing high-density city-district through the introduction of a decentralised (waste) water and energy concept	p. 695
A plan to reuse wastewaters from an urban treatment plant: emergy analysis as a measure of sustainability	p. 707
Sustainable urban waste management system in Metropolitan Seoul, South Korea	p. 717
Author Index	p. 727