Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
A Need for Sustainable Urban Environments
Contemporary social, economic, and environmental challenges that affect the urban experience call for innovative solutions. This chapter details some of the challenging global phenomena that bring about a need for sustainable urban environments and offer a relevant contemporary history of sustainability. This will be followed by an introduction to the pillars and principles of sustainability and their digital counterparts, tools that can be used when planning and developing urban environments and beyond. Lastly, the advantages of data collection will be shown in the context of the ecological and carbon footprints as ways to measure sustainability.
A Need for Sustainable Urban Environments
Contemporary social, economic, and environmental challenges that affect the urban experience call for innovative solutions. This chapter details some of the challenging global phenomena that bring about a need for sustainable urban environments and offer a relevant contemporary history of sustainability. This will be followed by an introduction to the pillars and principles of sustainability and their digital counterparts, tools that can be used when planning and developing urban environments and beyond. Lastly, the advantages of data collection will be shown in the context of the ecological and carbon footprints as ways to measure sustainability.
A Need for Sustainable Urban Environments
Friedman, Avi (Autor:in)
The Sustainable Digital City ; Kapitel: 2 ; 17-37
06.04.2023
21 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Carbon footprint , Carbon offsets , Climate change , Cultural sustainability digitization , Ecological footprint , Economy , Environmental sustainability , Impact assessment , Resilience , Social sustainability , Sustainability , Sustainable governance , Urbanization Energy , Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings , Sustainable Development , Signal, Image and Speech Processing , Cyber-physical systems, IoT , Professional Computing , Public Policy , Earth and Environmental Science
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