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The Role of Design, Construction, and Real Estate in Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals
This edited book brings together insights from scholars and practitioners from many different fields to uncover the role of the construction and real...
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SeaCities Aquatic Urbanism
This book highlights the research outcome of Cities Research Institute's SeaCities group at Griffith University and a panel with the same title which...
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Determining an Adequate Population Density to Achieve Sustainable Development and Quality of Life
Sustainable development has many environmental, economic, social, and cultural dimensions. However, Urban Design is considered a critical pillar in...
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Achieving the UN SDGs Through the Integration of Social Procurement in Construction Projects
This chapter explores how public policy directives and the use of social procurement tactics in construction projects leverage the demand side of the...
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Achieving the Agenda 2030 in the Built Environment: Role, Benefits, and Challenges in Implementing Green Infrastructure in Informal Settlements
The urban built environment needs urgent interventions to make it sustainable and resilient. Incorporating green infrastructure (GI) can offset the...
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Toward Realizing the 2030 Agenda in the Built Environment: An Introduction
Despite its current negative environmental externalities, the built environment holds significant potential for accelerating the implementation and...
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Introduction
The exhaustion of natural resources, climatic disasters and volume of waste we are currently facing, require repair to be at the forefront of design...
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Are We Repairing Soils and Each Other Here? Exploring Design Cosmotechnics in the Waste Age
Design research increasingly turns to non-Western perspectives on repair to counteract the Waste Age and our climate crisis. We draw on the...
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Design-Led Repair: Insights, Anecdotes and Reflections from Australian Repairers
Thinking about the important role that design plays in repair, one key resource that can easily be overlooked is the broad stock of knowledge gained...
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Preference Heterogeneity of Cyclists’ on the Street-Scale Built Environment
Biking can contribute to a better environment by reducing short car trips and improves public health. Street-scale built environment attributes play...
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Pedestrians’ Route Choice and the Street-Scale Built Environment
Understanding the relationship between micro-scale built environment and pedestrian trips from/to metro stations is important to stimulate walking as...
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Pedestrians’ Preferences on the Street-Scale Built Environment in a Stated Choice Experiment
This research reports the results of a stated preference experiment that was administered to estimate the impact of the micro built environment on...
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The Sustainable Housing Challenge
This chapter explores historic, current, and future challenges that are contributing to holding back a sustainable housing transition. In doing this,...
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Sustainable Housing in Practice
In this chapter, we explore the socio-technical dimensions presented in Chap. 6 in more detail through key...
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Develo** Aquatic Urbanism: A Taxonomy for 35 Tactics
There is growing interest in water-based urban development, but there is no systematic approach to it. A matrix was created to combine viable...
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Marine Spatial Planning at the Municipal Scale: Lessons from China and Sweden
With rising sea levels and a growing trend for floating development initiatives around the world, the urban seascape is fast becoming a new frontier...
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An Overview of Artificial Islands Growth Processes and Their Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise
The increase of artificial islands and land expansions in the water in the last years is significant. Approximately, 33,700 km2 of land has been...
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Transferring the Plastic Sea into the Sea: Environmental Opportunities for Floating Greenhouses in Almería (Spain)
To create new sustainable food production systems that are more efficient, occupying less land space, and closer to the cities, will be critical for...
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Design/Repair Place, Practice & Community
This collection of essays sheds light on repair as a disposition to material culture and a practice rooted in diverse sociocultural experiences. It...