1st Edition

Technologies for Sustainable Urban Design and Bioregionalist Regeneration

By Dora Francese Copyright 2016
228 Pages 46 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 46 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 46 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the role of technology in ecological urban design and regeneration. Part I provides theoretical and methodological insights into technological approaches that offer optimum respect to existing cultural and natural environments, while offering minimum impact and carbon footprint. Parts II and III provide contextualised examples that demonstrate the use, or proposal of,... Read more

Presentation (Mayor of Naples)  Introduction: The environmental design at reduced foot-print. Bioregionalist technologies and materials.  Part I: Investigation of the urban systems according to the technological approach to the environmental design  1. A new strategy for the city: sustainable regeneration.  2. The bioregionalist vision of environmental design  3. Zero Km materials and products suitable for urban regeneration  4. Recycling and waste as resource for the urban and social transformations  5. The contribution of an assorted expertise: how to guarantee subsidiarity and integration.  Part II: Technological approach to environmental design. Application to some Urban case-studies  Introduction  1. Urban squares  2. The oblique city  3. Urban Waterfront  4. Decayed suburbs  Part III: Technological approach to environmental design. Application to peri- urban case-studies  Introduction  1. Touristic waterfronts  2. Disused industrial areas  3. Hyper-commercial areas  4. Wetlands  5. Peri-urban parks  Conclusion

Biography

Dora Francese is a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Naples, Italy.