Green Urban Planning

di Meher Nigar Neema (Autore)

Akira Ohgai (Autore)

Kazuki Karashima (Autore)

Springer International Publishing AG, 2026

This book will be different and new in relation to the available books in the market, such as Urban Green utilizing Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities, Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning in relation to Creating Smart Cities. The book starts with basic concepts, identifies problems and possible solutions applying models with real context, providing recommendations for achieving green urban planning for sustainable urban development. This book provides a wide coverage on the possible response to the essential issues of green urban planning in rapidly growing urban spaces. This book shows how cities deal qualitatively with the environmental challenges posed by its growth using GA and GIS based techniques. The proposed book will definitely serve as a core course module with fundamental knowledge with complete coverage on all topics of green urban planning including many case studies using GA and GIS with worked out examples. These are the main features of this book. Moreover, the book will accompany ancillary content of the main text to help readers. The book is divided into twelve chapters. This book is unique in its field because Green Urban Planning for a Healthy, Sustainable, and Livable City encompasses everyone's interests and there are negligible books published on such a hot topic. Human civilization is going through a critical phase in its history. Technological progress has resulted in the concentration of population in cities, consequently they are cut off from nature, voracious consumption of natural resources, and causes tremendous damage to the environment. Global warming and climate change pose serious challenges to the sustained advancement of mankind. Moreover, a sedentary lifestyle with gadgets designed to lessen physical exertion has become a threat to healthy living, wiping out some of the benefits of the development of medical science. Urban planning, like many other disciplines, has a role to play to reverse this trend and mitigate its adverse effects. Green urban planning is an emerging theory and practice that intends to address these issues and transform cities into settlements that offer a healthy and wholesome living environment at present without jeopardizing the future. This book presents a comprehensive perspective of green urban planning in relation to the multifaceted benefits it is expected to deliver. The conceptual development of green urban planning as well as practical case studies are presented with recommendations for practical applications.

• Autore: Meher Nigar Neema, Akira Ohgai, Kazuki Karashima
• Editore: Springer International Publishing AG
• Collana: Cities and Nature
• Anno: 2026
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 147 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9783031962196

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