Gebundenes Buch

The Routledge Handbook on Greening High-Density Cities

Climate, Society and Health

Herausgeber: Du, Peng; Ali, Mir M.; Al-Kodmany, Kheir

Beschreibung

This handbook brings together researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and people's health, serving as a reference book for policymakers, practitioners, academics, and researchers to study, design, and build high-density cities by integrating green spaces.

Autor

Peng Du is an assistant professor and director of the Master of Urban Design - Future Cities Program at the College of Architecture and Built Environment in Thomas Jefferson University and a Research Fellow of Jefferson Institute of Smart and Healthy Cities. He also serves as the Asia Regional Director of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). Kheir Al-Kodmany is an expert in vertical urbanism, sustainable design, geographic information systems (GIS), visualization systems, public participation, and crowd management. He is a professor of Urban Planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and previously worked for the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). Mir M. Ali is professor emeritus and former long-time chairman of the Structures Division in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has extensive industrial experience that includes Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Sargent & Lundy in Chicago. He is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 634
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1369g
• ISBN-13: 9781032331423
• ISBN-10: 1032331429
• Artikelnr.: 70242401