Planning, Progress and Challenges of Built Environments

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Felipe Silva Pinto (Editor)

Series: Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology
BISAC: TEC010000

Planning, Progress and Challenges of Built Environments first examines China’s urbanization, presenting a brief historical review of urbanization in China and focusing on its development during the pro-reform period.
Following this, the authors explore notions of publicness and privateness through the lens of Hong Kong’s public rental sector, using data collected from a physical survey of selected housing estates and 14 in-depth interviews with architects, housing managers and residents.
Post-consumer packaging waste is explored and synthesized as a secondary resource for re-contextualizing and developing applications in architecture.
The diverse interactions between water and rock masses are discussed, focusing on lines of conceptual continuity from rock masses to built structures made from stone.
Issues concerning sustainability at university campuses are discussed in terms of obtaining materials, the impact of the presence of said materials, and the potential of these materials as teaching aids.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Urbanization in China: History, Development and Challenges
(Chengri Ding and Bing Zhao, Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, US, and others)

Chapter 2. Publicness vs Privateness: A Study of Public Rental Housing in Hong Kong
(Adrienne La Grange and Yung Yau, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)

Chapter 3. Utilization of PCPW as Secondary Resources in Architecture: Challenges, Pre-processes and Opportunities
(Arulmalar Ramaraj and Jothilakshmy Nagammal, PhD, Department of Architecture, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India, and others)

Chapter 4. Rocks and Water in the Built Environment
(Carlos Alves, Carlos Figueiredo, Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez and Ana C. Hernández, LandS/Lab2PT-Landscapes, Heritage and Territory Laboratory, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, and others)

Chapter 5. The Sustainable University Campus: Some Issues Related to the Use of Geological Materials
(Carlos Alves, Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez and Carlos Figueiredo, LandS/Lab2PT-Landscapes, Heritage and Territory Laboratory, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, and others)

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