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Luxury and Scarcity: Exploring Anachronisms in the Market for Transformative Repair
Repair is a response to conservation in conditions of scarcity but can fail to sufficiently address problems of waste and consumption in conditions...
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Commoning Repair: Framing a Community Response to Transitioning Waste Economies
Local councils in Australia are faced with the urgency of managing bulky household waste and responding to diminishing capacity for landfilling, at a...
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Relational Repair: Co-designing an Approach to Place-Based Circularity with an Ethic of Care
In this paper, we reflect on a collaborative design research process involving 46 diverse participants, including citizen, community, council and...
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Roundtable: A Discussion About Design/Repair
The roundtable was an opportunity for the editors, as a group of design academics investigating repair, to explore themes raised by the chapters of...
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Community Resilience by Repair: Skilling At-Risk Youth for Social Impact and Environmental Sustainability
Regional communities were traditionally skilled to repair and repurpose things out of necessity, due to having less access to services than urban...
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Relationship Between Changes in Building Culture and the Carbon Footprint from Past to Present: A Case Study from Şanlıurfa-Turkey
Humans have built shelters in response to their environment and climate seeking to meet one of their lifelong basic needs: housing. A review of...
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How Rwanda’s Green Building Minimum Compliance System Can Help Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Develo** countries in Africa will see a 75% increase from current building stock until 2060 due to economic development, rapid urbanization, and...
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Solar Shading Design and Implementation in UK Housing as a Tool for Advancing Sustainable Development
This chapter aims to provide the reader with an understanding of how simple interventions such as solar shading can help in achieving both emission...
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A Sustainable Approach to the Planning, Organization, and Management of Big Events in the Music Entertainment Industry
Managing a major event offers many insights for design-related fields, from urban landscape design to product design, from the built environment to...
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Equity in the Built Environment in Least Developed Countries: The Case of Rural Municipalities in Nepal
The United Nations states that the “Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.” On the...
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Partnership in the Built Environment for Realizing the 2030 Agenda: A Soft Systems Model Incorporating Systems Theory and the Circular Economy
Sustainability calls for national and supranational collaboration between people, institutions, states, countries, and regions. The built environment...
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Floating Jakarta: A Human Dimension
This chapter highlights the potential for water-based development solutions as a new or less explored option for the sustainable and future-proof...
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Prospects for a Sustainable Housing Transition
In this final chapter, we revisit the core ideas woven throughout the book. We summarize the current situation and how the current provision of...
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HydroPolis: How to Evolve Solutions for Floating Eco-Village Collectives?
This project investigates the potential of design thinking and co-design processes in develo** sustainable floating architecture solutions for a...
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Systemic Urban-Wetland Interdependencies
Current predictions highlight major climate-related impacts on coastal cities around the world. At the same time, wetlands provide important services...
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Providing Sustainable Housing through Sustainability Transitions
In this chapter, we explore the concept of sustainability transitions and how it offers a framework to change some of the deep structural elements...
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Socio-Technical Dimensions for a Sustainable Housing Transition
In this chapter, we explore key socio-technical dimensions that we have identified through the wider literature and our own sustainable housing...
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Conclusion
Metro systems as an efficient means of public transportation have increased dramatically in high-density cities.
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Introduction
To alleviate urban problems such as air pollution, congestion, noise, increasing energy consumption, and suboptimal-health among people, sustainable...
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Transportation Mode Choice and Built Environment Around Metro Stations
To understand the determinants of transportation mode choice of travellers around metro stations, more and more built environment attributes have...