Amir Shakibamanesh, Mahshid Ghorbanian, Seyed Navid Mashhadi Moghadam

Smart Growth and Sustainable Transport in Cities (eBook, PDF)

Theory and Application

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book delves into the urban planning theory of 'smart growth' to encourage the creation of smart cities where compact urban spaces are optimized to create transit-oriented, pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly areas, with a clear focus on developing a sustainable, humanistic transport system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000691627
• Artikelnr.: 57789771

Autorenporträt

Amir Shakibamanesh is an urban designer with more than 12 years of professional experience. He currently works as an associate professor of urban design at the University of Art, Tehran, Iran. He is the author or co-author of more than 25 scholarly articles and monographs, and the author of 8 books and book chapters. His research interests include urban modelling, urban simulation, virtual reality and urban scene analysis.

Mahshid Ghorbanian is an urban designer and planner with more than 10 years of professional experience. She currently works as an assistant professor of urban design and planning at the Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran. She is the author or co-author of more than 14 scholarly articles and monographs, and the author of 8 books and book chapters. Her research interests include urban modelling, urban spatial structure and health, morphological and visual analysis of city textures, and urban transportation in the complex city network.

Seyed Navid Mashhadi Moghadam is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Art and Architecture at Tarbiat Modares University in Iran. His research focuses on social aspects and dynamics in power distribution between citizens and governance.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures. List of tables. Preface.
1. Introduction 2. Smart growth: from theoretical approaches to practical
concepts 3. Smart growth vs. urban sprawl 4. A review of global experiences
in evaluating urban development plans and policies based on smart growth 5.
A review of the critiques of smart growth 6. A comprehensive checklist of
generalizable and achievable goals, strategies and policies for smart
growth 7. Conclusion
Index.