Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures. Impacts on Architecture and Technology

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Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014. - 301 с.ISBN 978-3-642-37660-3Urbanism and the design of Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures form the basis of an ongoing effort upon which interdisciplinary architectural planning and philosophy as well as engineering design are developed.As cities are aimed nowadays to be ever smarter, they are designed to offer competitive, remarkable and resourceful environments for the future. As such, cities may offer alternatives between energy strategies and optimization theories of megaspaces in a territory or a landscape. Designing or redeveloping the city blueprint for today and for the future is and has been an open question in the architectural and engineering fields.By the use of the words smart, energy and future, in connection with a city, it is desired to present a variety of viewpoints about the operational efficiency and the living conditions in a city. Design objectives lead to an “in-process” or to an entirely complete smartness.PrefaceFrank Duffy A Time and a Place for EverythingPaul Budde Smart Cities of TomorrowMitchell Joachim and Melanie Fessel Rethinking Urban Landscapes: Self-Supported Infrastructure, Technology and TerritoryMagnus Larsson and Alex Kaiser Invincible Cities for the Materiomic AgeRobert Stuart-Smith Qualitative Affects of Building Life Cycle: The Formation of ArchitecturalMatterMark Raymond Other CitiesLindsey Sherman, Michael Contento, Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner Urban Parangol´eBryan Eisenhower High Performance Buildings: Measures, Complexity, and Current TrendsFabiano Lemes de Oliveira Eco-cities: The Role of Networks of Green and Blue SpacesJessica Bunning, Colin Beattie, Vanessa Rauland, and Peter Newman Decarbonising City Precincts: An Australian PerspectiveKobe Boussauw, Richard Hanley, and Frank Witlox The Rebirth of Distance in the Context of Urban SustainabilityKonstantina Vasilakopoulou, Denia Kolokotsa and Mattheos Santamouris Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures: Urban Heat Island Mitigation Techniques for Sustainable CitiesZeynep Aygen and Gokhan Kılıc Building Conservation Towards a Sustainable Future: Use of GPRChristos Gousis and Ioannis Tzouvadakis Evaluation of the Shading Efficiency of the Shading Devices Installed in the Tram Stations in AthensWei Lin and Xinghua Liu Modeling and Control of Large and Flexible Wind Turbines in Variable Speed ModeSmita Rakshit and Anthony Filipovitch Sustainable Design for Campus Residential HousingEveline Althaus and Marie Antoinette Glaser House Biographies: Housing Studies on the Smallest Urban ScaleHenriette Steiner and Kristin Veel For the Smarter Good of Cities: On Cities, Complexity and Slippages in the Smart City Discourse