Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning: Creating Smart Cities
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Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning: Creating Smart Cities

Ozge Yalciner Ercoskun
Release Date: December, 2011|Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 404
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-453-6
ISBN13: 9781613504536|ISBN10: 1613504535|EISBN13: 9781613504543
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Description:

Ecological and technological (eco-tech) planning provides a possible response to the essential issues of sustainability and rehabilitation in rapidly growing urban spaces.

Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning: Creating Smart Cities addresses the ecological, technological, and social challenges faced in the smart urban planning and design of settlements when using eco-technologies – from sustainable land use to transportation, and from green areas to municipal applications – with a focus on resilience. Containing research from leading international experts, this book provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends, and technologies within the planning field.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Adapting Cities to Ecological and Economic Challenges
  • Advanced environmental technologies
  • Eco-Municipalities
  • Energy Efficient Design
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Land-Use Sustainability
  • Smart Cities
  • Smart information and communication technologies
  • Sustainable Transportation
  • Sustainable Urbanism
  • Urban and Transport Planning
  • Urban Resilience
  • Zero Energy Buildings (ZEB)
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This book represents a timely contribution to researchers, people in spatial sciences, students, and decision makers, containing a deep and broad discussion of eco-technologies and their potential contribution to sustainable urban planning, which is an area of rapidly growing importance. It not only provides answers, but also stimulates new questions and areas for study in sustainable urban planning, smart & green cities, and technical development.

– Ozge Yalciner Ercoskun, Gazi University, Turkey
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Ozge Yalciner Ercoskun is a Research Assistant in the City and Regional Planning Department of the Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey. She graduated from the City and Regional Planning Department of the Istanbul Technical University in 1998. She completed her Master’s studies in the Geodetic and Geographic Information Technologies Department of the METU in 2002. She got her Ph.D. degree from the City and Regional Planning Department of the Gazi University in 2007. She has attended several national and international congresses; summer schools and workshops related to ecological urban planning and geographic information systems. She has written more than 40 papers on sustainable urban design and ecological and smart urban planning, geographic information systems, and information technologies. She worked as a researcher in many national and institutional projects. She has awards about sustainability, urban growth, and sustainable tourism.
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Editorial Advisory Board
  • Dushko Bogunovich, UNITEC, New Zealand
  • Derya Oktay, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey
  • Semra Atabay, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
  • Inci Gokmen, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
  • Ali Gokmen, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
  • Sule Karaaslan, Gazi University, Turkey
  • Kerem Ercoskun, Yeditepe University, Turkey
  • Ebru Ocalir, Gazi University, Turkey