Rethinking sustainable development urban management, engineering, and design /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Yigitcanlar, Tan.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2010.
• Subjects: City planning > Environmental aspects.; Sustainable development.; Infrastructure (Economics) > Planning.; Environmental policy.; Sustainable urban stormwater management; Framework for urban planning and development; Decision support systems; Information and communication technologies; Transit oriented developments; Urban traffic characteristics; Structural health monitoring; Sustainable infrastructure project planning; Sustainability performance of construction; Infrastructure capacity management
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"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.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Sustainable urban development / Suharto Teriman, Tan Yigitcanlar, Severine Mayere
• 2. Planning for sustainable urban futures / Didem Dizdaroglu, Tan Yigitcanlar, Les Dawes
• 3. Sustainable urban stormwater management / Shinyi Lee, Tan Yigitcanlar
• 4. Integrated sustainable urban infrastructure management / Benson Au-Yeung, Tan Yigitcanlar, Severine Mayere
• 5. A decision support system for sustainable urban development / Fatih Dur, Tan Yigitcanlar, Jonathan Bunker
• 6. Information and communication technologies / Tan Yigitcanlar
• 7. Planning sustainable communities / Paul Donehue
• 8. Sustainable transportation development / Kushairi Rashid, Tan Yigitcanlar, Jonathan Bunker
• 9. User characteristics of transit oriented developments / Deepti Muley, Jonathan Bunker, Luis Ferreira
• 10. Modelling urban public transit users' route choice behaviour / Yulin Lee, Jonathan Bunker, Luis Ferreira
• 11. Traffic and climate change impacts on water quality / Parvez Mahbub, Godwin Ayoko, Prasanna Egodawatta, Tan Yigitcanlar, Ashantha Goonetilleke
• 12. Urban traffic characteristics and urban stormwater quality / Janaka Gunawardena, Ashantha Goonetilleke, Prasanna Egodawatta, Godwin Ayoko, Jason Kerr
• 13. Infrastructure sustainability / Hoi Wai Shih, David Thambiratnam, Tommy Chan
• 14. Infrastructure sustainability / Praveen Moragaspitiya, David Thambiratnam, Nimal Perera, Tommy Chan
• 15. Infrastructure sustainability / Herath Thilakarathna, David Thambiratnam, Manicka Dhanasekar, Nimal Perera
• 16. Structural health monitoring / Liang Wang, Tommy Chan, David Thambiratnam, Andy Tan
• 17. Structural health monitoring of bridges / Manindra Kaphle, Andy Tan, David Thambiratnam, Tommy Chan
• 18. Sustainable infrastructure project planning / Omar Mohd Faizal, Bambang Trigunarsyah, Johnny Wong
• 19. Project-based organizations / Liang Chen, Anna Wiewiora, Bambang Trigunarsyah
• 20. Sustainability performance of construction / Asrul Nasid Masrom, Martin Skitmore
• 21. Sustainable infrastructure assets / Eric Too, Martin Betts, Arun Kumar
• 22. Knowledge transfer in project-based organisations: the need for a unique approach / Anna Wiewiora, Bambang Trigunarsyah, Glen Murphy
• 23. Afterword.