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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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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...
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Introduction on Design for Vulnerable Communities
This first chapter aims to present the state of the art regarding the topic of design in vulnerable communities. Giving the most important references...
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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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Social Housing in Historic Centers: Contemporary Experiences in Latin America
In general, the scarcity of social housing experiences in Latin American historic centers stems from the implementation of public policies that...
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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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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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Policy Pathways to a Net Zero Carbon-Built Environment
Policy, regulations and voluntary approaches play an important role in driving the transition of the built environment towards a net zero carbon...
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The Climate Emergency and the Built Environment
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report (AR6) has signalled a code red for humanity, and an urgent need to respond to the...
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Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment: Measurements, Benchmarks and Pathways to Net Zero
This chapter outlines the challenges associated with measuring embodied carbon, suggesting there are significant inconsistencies with embodied carbon...
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Delivering on the Climate Emergency Towards a Net Zero Carbon Built Environment
This book focuses on the transition towards net-zero carbon built environments to deliver on the climate emergency. It provides an evidence-based...
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Facing Vulnerability: Sustainable Healthcare Design in the Global South
This paper presents the results of some design and research activities developed over a fifteen-year period in the field of sustainable design...
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Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) as Tools to Empower Vulnerable Communities: Opportunities and Challenges for Designers
In the Anthropocene complexity, information and technology play a transcendental role in how we relate to our identity, context and otherness. The...
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Drawn Across Borders
Populations living close to the US–Mexico international border are particularly vulnerable to environmental health risks, including heightened...
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Urban Form and Social Vulnerability in Shanghai: A Comparative Study of Hongkou District Before and After the 1990s Urban Renewal
Waves of urbanization have always played a significant role in resha** the morphology of cities and altering livelihood patterns. Changes in street...
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Sustainable Energy Through Design: An Approach to Alleviate Energy Poverty in Vulnerable Communities on the US–Mexico Border Region
The US–Mexico border region is faced with severely stressed water systems due to climate change that affects energy infrastructure and agriculture,...
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Climate Resilient Development Pathways in the US-Mexico Border Region: The Case of the El Paso del Norte Metropolitan Area
Intensification of extreme events over the past decades shows how climate change effects in northern Mexico can increase vulnerability within border...
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Towards Conscious Design and Urban Planning: Inspiration from Consciousness in Business
As the world is immersed in multiple social (The Lancet Public Health, 2020, The Lancet Public Health, 5(9), e460), environmental (Allen et al.,...
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Poverty and Design, an Economics and Policy Perspective
After a discussion on the evolution of poverty and its multidimensional nature, as well as some global trends affecting the livelihoods of people in...
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A Biophilic Pattern Language for Cities
In the wake of a rapid urbanisation at a global scale, the question we need to ask ourselves is what we can do to deal with issues and problems...