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A Transition to Sustainable Housing Progress and Prospects for a Low Carbon Housing Future
This open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable...
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Built Environment and Walking & Cycling Around Metro Stations
This book explores the relationship between pedestrians/cyclists’ mode and route choice to/from metro/railway stations and the micro-level...
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The Potential of New Methodologies, Approaches, and Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Addressing the Urgent Development Challenges of the Built Environment
The United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goal 11 calls for making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable....
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Conflicting Interpretations of ‘Design’ and ‘Premature Product Obsolescence’: Australia’s Right to Repair Inquiry 2020–2021
In 2020–2021 the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission ran a public inquiry into the ‘Right to Repair’ (R2R). This inquiry was a moment in...
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“We Not Only Repair Our Devices, But Also Our Relationship With Them”: Repair-Led Designing at the Restart Parties in Barcelona
E-waste is the fastest-growing type of waste, leading to increases in waste management, valuation narratives and circular economy models. Despite the...
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From Roadside Detritus to Communities Painting Pet Portraits: Some Things I Have Learnt About Repair
This chapter discusses and reflects on two vastly different projects that are tied together with a common thread of repair. The first project perhaps...
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A Critical Juncture
This chapter explores the critical juncture that we find ourselves at in relation to sustainable housing, but also wider sustainability...
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Current Housing Provision
In this chapter, we explore current housing provision and outline how we have arrived at the current way of ‘doing’ housing, including the governing,...
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Housing for a Sustainable Future
We find ourselves at a critical juncture: after decades of fragmented and limited action, we are experiencing a climate emergency. The built...
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Facilitating the Sustainable Housing Transition
In this chapter, we reflect on the preceding chapters of the book to discuss implications of the evidence and current context for facilitating the...
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Cyclists’ Preferences on the Street-Scale Built Environment in a Stated Choice Experiment Compared to Pedestrians
The mismatch between the design of the micro-scale built environment around metro stations and pedestrian/cyclist preferences causes inconvenience...
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Application: Simulation Model of Pedestrian Flows in the Re-design of Built Environment Around Metro Stations
In urban renewal processes, metro line systems are widely used to accommodate the massive traffic needs and stimulate the redevelopment of the local...
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Coastal Vulnerability: Sustainable Settlements for Outdoor Tourism
With a length of about 8000 km, the Italian coast represents a dynamic ecosystem where both natural and anthropic processes interact modifying its...
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The “Rebuilding the World” Post-graduation Programme at ENSAP Bordeaux: Responding to Contemporary Urban and Environmental Issues, Through an Innovative Pedagogy with a Humanist Vision
For several decades there has been a growing awareness of the way in which the territorial development promoted by modernity has produced an...
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Digital Participation for Inclusive Growth: A Case Study of Singapore’s Collaborative Digital Governance Model
Digitalization is omnipresent in today’s social and urban life. This chapter attempts to discuss the advantage of digital transition as an asset for...
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Nutritious Landscapes: The Food Environments in the Metropolitan Peripheries of Mexico
Analyzing factors that determine accessibility, availability, and acceptability of food, this chapter investigates weaknesses of food environments in...
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Designing for Vulnerabilities. The Definition of Public Spaces as a Strategy for a Sustainable Renovation of Bei**g Heritage Sites
The regeneration strategies for the hutong areas in Bei**g need to address two main interrelated vulnerabilities. On the one hand, the fragility of...
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Design with Vulnerable Communities
This research explores the challenges that urban architectural design is going to face in the coming decades in vulnerable communities. Since the...
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From Storytelling to Numbers: A Discussion on Vulnerability in the Global and Local Context
Seventeen objectives of the UN Agenda 2030 are organized to highlight the possible negative consequences of certain policies and actions in contexts...
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Thinking Socially: Anthropological Approaches to Contemporary Research
This article is about the method of ethnography as a way of doing anthropology to produce knowledge that engages and produces something called the...