Rethinking Sustainable Development: Urban Management, Engineering, and Design

Rethinking Sustainable Development: Urban Management, Engineering, and Design

Tan Yigitcanlar (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Indexed In: SCOPUS
Release Date: June, 2010|Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 416
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-022-7
ISBN13: 9781616920227|ISBN10: 161692022X|EISBN13: 9781616920234
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In an atmosphere where civilization is progressing and becoming more aware of the consequences of careless development decisions, rethinking sustainable development–particularly sustainable urban and infrastructure development–has become an inevitable necessity.

Rethinking Sustainable Development: Urban Management, Engineering, and Design considers the role of urban, regional and infrastructure planning in achieving sustainable urban and infrastructure development, providing insights into overcoming the consequences of unsustainable development. This companion volume to Sustainable Urban and Regional Infrastructure: Technology, Planning and Management, overviews all aspects of sustainable urban and infrastructure development.

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

  • Decision Support Systems
  • Framework For Urban Planning and Development
  • Information and Communication Technologies
  • Infrastructure Capacity Management
  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Sustainability Performance of Construction
  • Sustainable Infrastructure Project Planning
  • Sustainable Urban Stormwater Management
  • Transit Oriented Developments
  • Urban Traffic Characteristics
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Tan Yigitcanlar (www.urbanizm.org; tan.yigitcanlar@qut.edu.au) has a multi-disciplinary background and almost two decades of work experience in private consulting, government, and academia. Currently a researcher at the School of Urban Development, Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia) the main focus of his research is promoting knowledge-based urban development and sustainable transportation. He has been responsible for a wide variety of teaching, training, and capacity building programmes on varied topics in urban planning, environmental science, policy analysis, and information and communication technologies in Turkish, Japanese, and Australian universities. Professor Yigitcanlar is co-editor of Knowledge-based urban development: planning and applications in the information era (2008) and Creative urban regions: harnessing urban technologies to support knowledge city initiatives (2008).
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