Application of environmental performance analysis for urban design with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and EcoTect tools: the case of Cao Fei Dian eco-city, China [PDF]
This paper suggests a type of quantitative research method with the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and EcoTect tools for a sustainable urban design project. This paper is part of a funded research study and was completed in 2010.
Cheshmehzangi +24 more
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Sustainable Urban Design with Chinese Characteristics: Inspiration from the Shan-Shui City Idea
Aspiration for economic development and the forces of globalization have driven China to embrace global city planning and city building ideas. A threat of identity loss in many Chinese cities is becoming evident.
Yizhao Yang, Jie Hu
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Editorial : environmental governance of urban and regional development – scales and sectors, conflict and cooperation [PDF]
Recent years have continued to see a concern for the detrimental environmental impacts of human economic activities particularly in the form of enhanced global warming, sea level rise, land degradation and deforestation.
Chhotray V. +11 more
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Pembangunan kawasan perkotaan dan pemukiman oleh pemerintah dan swasta menimbulkan dampak bagi lingkungan hidup, untuk itu mereka perlu menyusun rencana tata kota berbasis sustainable eco city.
F.C. Susila Adiyanta
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Prospects of eco-hydrological model for sponge city construction
Introduction Understanding complex urban eco-hydrological processes through models is an important approach in sponge city construction. However, the research on this has not kept pace with the urgent need for sustainable development of urban water ...
Chuhan Feng +4 more
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Association between human blood metabolome and the risk of hypertension
Hypertension, commonly referred to as high blood pressure, is a chronic medical condition characterized by persistently elevated blood pressure levels.
Nannan Dai, Yujuan Deng, Baishi Wang
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What Are the Challenges of Increasing the Sustainability of Urban Livelihoods? [PDF]
. This article places the challenge of rapid urbanisation throughout the world into a perspective that acknowledges inequalities due to economic history.
Whittingham, N. (Neil)
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As materializations of trends toward developing and implementing urban socio-technical and enviro-economic experiments for transition, eco-cities have recently received strong government and institutional support in many countries around the world due to
Simon Elias Bibri
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The development stage of Xiamen City and related environment evolution
A model of environmental evolution of cities, especially in East Asia, is said to follow four stages. The pathways to the fourth stage of eco-city are not always clear, but need to be contextual.
Tianhai Zhang +3 more
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Sustainable Settlement Criteria, Eco-cities and Prospects in Central and Eastern Europe [PDF]
Eco-city movements constitute a special segment of the sustainable settlement aspirations. Using the classification devised by Mark Roseland, the paper established that the eco-city movement aims at achieving a new, consistent urban solution, while ...
Fleischer, Tamás
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