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Rethinking sustainable development : urban management, engineering, and design
Title:
Rethinking sustainable development : urban management, engineering, and design
Author:
Yigitcanlar, Tan.
ISBN:
9781616920234
Publication Information:
Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, ©2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxxv, 379 pages)
Contents:
""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Detailed Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment""; ""Section 1 Planning Sustainable Development: Sustainability of Urban Infrastructure""; ""Chapter 1 Sustainable Urban Development: An Integrated Framework for Urban Planning and Development""; ""Chapter 2 Planning for Sustainable Urban Futures: An Ecological Approach to Sustainable Urban Development""; ""Chapter 3 Sustainable Urban Stormwater Management: Water Sensitive Urban Design Perceptions, Drivers and Barriers""

""Chapter 4 Integrated Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Management: The Brisbane Urban Growth Model""""Chapter 5 A Decision Support System for Sustainable Urban Development: The Integrated Land Use and Transportation Indexing Model""; ""Chapter 6 Information and Communication Technologies: Catalysts for Sustainable Urban Development""; ""Chapter 7 Planning Sustainable Communities: An Appropriate Basis for Sustainable Residential Communities?""; ""Section 2 Designing Sustainable Development: Sustainable Urban Transportation Infrastructure""

""Chapter 8 Sustainable Transportation Development: A Framework to Determine Transportation Disadvantaged""""Chapter 9 User Characteristics of Transit Oriented Developments: The Case of Kelvin Grove Urban Village""; ""Chapter 10 Modelling Urban Public Transit Users� Route Choice Behaviour: A Review and Outlook""; ""Chapter 11 Traffic and Climate Change Impacts on Water Quality: Measuring Build-Up and Wash-Off of Heavy Metals and Petroleum Hydrocarbons""; ""Chapter 12 Urban Traffic Characteristics and Urban Stormwater Quality: A Methodology to Measure Traffic Generated Water Pollutants""

""Section 3 Engineering Sustainable Development: Safety and Integrity of Urban Infrastructure""""Chapter 13 Infrastructure Sustainability: Damage Assessment in Multiple-Girder Composite Bridges Using Vibration Characteristics""; ""Chapter 14 Infrastructure Sustainability: Differential Axial Shortening of Concrete Structures""; ""Chapter 15 Infrastructure Sustainability: Vulnerability of Axially Loaded Columns Subjected to Transverse Impact Loads""; ""Chapter 16 Structural Health Monitoring: Vibration- Based Damage Detection and Condition Assessment of Bridges""

""Chapter 17 Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges: Source Localisation in Acoustic Emission Technique""""Section 4 Managing Sustainable Development: Project Management of Urban Infrastructure""; ""Chapter 18 Sustainable Infrastructure Project Planning: Progress in Contemporary Decision Support Tools""; ""Chapter 19 Project- Based Organisations: Overcoming Lack of Trust and Social Networks Within Small and Medium Project Teams""; ""Chapter 20 Sustainability Performance of Construction: Conceptual Models of Satisfaction Levels in Construction Projects""
Abstract:
"This book investigates the role of urban, regional and infrastructure planning in achieving sustainable urban and infrastructure development, providing insights into overcoming the consequences of unsustainable development"--Provided by publisher.
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