Smart and Sustainable Built Environment: Volume 4 Issue 2

Transport infrastructure and sustainability: a new planning and assessment framework

Peter William Newman

Transport infrastructure is fundamental for economic development and for enabling cities to shift away from unsustainable automobile dependence. These agendas are coming together…

A system-of-systems approach to understanding urbanization – state of the art and prospect

Sakura Kasai, Nan Li, Dongping Fang

City is an artificial dynamic open giant complex system, whose multifunctional and interdisciplinary characteristics leads to significant complexity. While challenges arising from…

Critical issues in spatial distribution of public housing estates and their implications on urban renewal in Hong Kong

Wei Zheng, Geoffrey Shen, Hao Wang, Patrizia Lombardi

Public housing in Hong Kong plays an essential role in accommodation supply to people of low income. Access to social resources and rent levels of nearby private residential…

Literature review of green retrofit design for commercial buildings with BIM implication

Shanshan Bu, Geoffrey Shen, Chimay J. Anumba, Andy K.D. Wong, Xin Liang

This research paper is a literature review of the existing building retrofitting process. It proposes studying the functional, technical, and organizational issues of the green…

Biophilic urbanism: contributions to holistic urban greening for urban renewal

Angela Chenoweth Reeve, Cheryl Desha, Doug Hargreaves, Karlson Hargroves

The purpose of this paper is to consider how biophilic urbanism complements and potentially enhances approaches for the built environment profession to holistically integrate…

Embodied energy of service trading in Hong Kong

Shan Guo, Geoffrey Shen, Jay Yang, Bingxia Sun, Fan Xue

Energy is a resource of strategic importance for high density cities. International trade reshapes the urban economy and industrial structure of a city, which will indirectly…

Special issue on sustainable urban renewal in high-density cities

Geoffrey Shen