Table of Contents

Contents
Section 1: Sustainability and the built environment
Oslo 2019: a car-free city centre; Risk and unsustainability in Villahermosa, Mexico; Studies on reading the urban centre via cognitive maps: the example of Eskisehir, Turkey; The impact of roof gardens at high-rise residential buildings on property values; Legibility of industrial sites: way-finding in the Ruhr, the European capital of culture 2010, as a model for industrial sites in Eskisehir, Turkey; Case studies of the environmental quality of buildings damaged by earthquakes, prior to adaptive reconstruction: Palazzo Moscardelli in Ofena and ex-Colonia IX Maggio at Monteluco di Roio, L'Aquila, Italy; Collective self-organized housing: a research study to optimize building technologies, improve efficiency and reduce building consumptions; Research on urban renewal from the perspective of natural disaster vulnerability; Transiency, fly-in-fly-out workers, and sustainability: perceptions from within a resource-based community;Operational energy/carbon dioxide emissions analysis combing building cluster and transport demand of buildings' users at the street level: a case study of Hankou Railway Station surroundings in China;Transferring learned knowledge from the Bang Plee New Town of Thailand: concepts and policies; Public perceptions of urban sustainable challenges in developing countries
Section 2: City planning
Urban development in Oman: an overview; Space simulacrum: a paradox of conceptual novelty; Proposing a holistic basin-scale as a strategy of smart planning in adaptation to climate change; Localising global goals in Australia's global city: Sydney
Section 3: Urban architecture
Evaluating morphological changes of household environment: a case study of migration in Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh; A comparative study on the visibility relation of Vietnam traditional and contemporary tube house plans; Next-generation habitation typology: live/work/farm
Section 4: Environmental management
Environmental strategy of universities of southern Brazil; The challenges hindering the implementation of environmental management practices in hospitals
Section 5: Regional planning
The burden of regional development planning in Indonesia: a case study of discrepancies between land use and spatial planning document in Banten province; A theoretical assessment of the environmental change from floodplain rice fields to irrigated perimeters: a case study in the San Francisco Sergipano Low Valley in the northeast region of Brazil; Application of a sustainability assessment framework for flood mitigation projects: a case study on a flood levee project in Australia
Section 6: Governance
Barriers to a better Bristol: diagnosing city strategic sustainability challenges using systems, co-production and interdisciplinary approaches; Municipal coastal governance towards rural community resilience development: scenarios and tools; Challenges of rural SMEs in Ankara, Turkey
Section 7: Community planning
Community management of the waterfront: exploring community space and activity for economic stability in Tomitsu, Amakusa City, Japan; The I-49 connector: urban development enhanced through collaboration and interdisciplinary scholarship
Section 8: Socio-economic issues
The role of women in working life in Turkey; Ethnicity, development, crimes and conflict in a multi-ethnic urban setting in Malaysia: trans-border sociological and GIS analyses of an urban society; Comparing two methods for urban complexity calculation using the Shannon-Wiener index
Section 9: Quality of life
A growing movement: motivations for joining community gardens; Guidelines for upgrading quality of life in low income areas: a case study - Sabra-Tarik Jdideh, Beirut, Lebanon
Section 10: Cultural heritage
Recognition of industrial heritage in Aguascalientes, Mexico; Conservation for the long-haul: protecting cultural and natural resources through financial, legal, and programmatic strategies; A survey of industrial heritages in the context of water basins: Eastern Black Sea, Central Mediterranean and Northern Aegean
Section 11: Sustainable solutions in emerging countries
Effects on the registration and licensing of microenterprises in an informal economy: further evidence from the Ota area, Nigeria; Constraints in the pharmaceutical supply chain to clinics in the Mafikeng area, South Africa; The use of natural fiber as a barrier to garbage in Amazon urban rivers; The potential of participatory design to improve urban spaces in the slums of Caracas, Venezuela
Section 12: Sustainable tourism
An investigation of sustainable tourism using high speed railways; Impact of empowering local stakeholders in tourism development and sustainability of marginal rural settlements in Iran; Sustainable tourism and destination management: the Greek island of Poros
Section 13: Timber structures
Analysis of construction technology in sash windows in Persian architecture (Orosi); Assessment and monitoring of aesthetic appearance of building biomaterials during the service-life; Retardation effect on thermally-modified spruce wood; Grid shell designing and construction technology of glue-laminated laths; Non-destructive assessment of gluing in cross-laminated timber panels; Dynamic determination of the modulus of elasticity of maritime pine cross-laminated panels using vibration methods; Using preservative treated wood for timber structures in aquatic and sensitive environments
Section 14: Transportation
The challenges posed by problem soils on the performance of road pavements: review of a Tanzanian manual for pavement design and materials; Social media and transport choices: how social media can affect tripmakers' choices; Assessing urban mobility sustainability through a system of indicators: the case of Greek cities
Section 15: Mobility in the city
Analysis of pedestrian mobility factors in Manaus, Brazil; Do we really need signs? Urban wayshowing designed from within the surroundings
Section 16: Energy efficiency
Numerical assessment of solar updraft power plant integrated with external heat sources; An energy-resilient city: an appraisal matrix for the built environment; Designing urban building blocks around solar planning principles
Section 17: Education for sustainable development
The BNQ21000 standard: the management of sustainable development - from learning to audit; Social impact of mobile learning tablets on education and sustainable
development: evidence from a private Nigerian tertiary institution; Career guidance for the stable professional development of architects
Section 18: Case studies
Revival of forgotten rivers through recreating the cultural promenade: a case study of the revival of Beirut River, Lebanon; Problems of neglected places under bridges: a case study of Yerevan Bridge, Beirut, Lebanon; Sustainable urban weed control: experiences of non-chemical weed control (manual labour, mechanical and thermal-flame weeding) in the municipality of Occhiobello, Italy; Attitudes toward earthen architecture: the case of compressed and stabilized earth block architecture in Auroville, India; Integral adaptation to climate change in coastal zones: opportunities and limits - Rio Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan, Mexico; Insights and issues in the uptake and development of advanced anaerobic digestion within the UK water industry; A comparative study on user satisfaction with an observatory between Sarakura and Takato mountain, Japan
Section 19: Sustainable development indicators
Use of sustainable tourism indicators for rural coastal communities: a review; Biodiversity accounting of cities: a case study of Kolkata, India; Assessing green property management implementation among commercial buildings in Malaysia
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