Smart and Sustainable Built Environment: Volume 9 Issue 3

A design approach towards sustainable buildings in Algeria

Sofiane Rahmouni, Rachid Smail

The purpose of this paper is to achieve the national strategic agenda’s criteria that aim for accomplishing sustainable buildings by estimating the effects of energy efficiency…

Stepping stones: Assessing the permeability of urban greenspaces to climate-driven migration of trees

Qiyao Han, Greg Keeffe

Large-scale urbanisation has become a significant barrier to the natural migration of tree species, which is being exacerbated by accelerated climate change. Within this context…

Implementing a new human settlement theory: Strategic planning for a network of regenerative villages

Steven Liaros

Whilst the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables offers significant environmental benefits, the other transition – from a centralised to a distributed energy system �…

Adaptation of “participatory method” in design “for/with/by” the poor community in Tam Thanh, Quang Nam, Vietnam

Nguyen Thi Hanh Nguyen, Hung Thanh Dang

The purpose of this paper is to show the adaptation of participatory concept: “from passive to active community” which is the key point to achieve successes of the case study…

Towards sustainable cities: about redundancy, voids and the potentials of the land

Rob Roggema

With future (extreme) change ahead of us, there are many serious problems humankind has to face. The pace of mitigating climate change through an energy transition to renewables…

The Amsterdam energy transition roadmap – introducing the City-zen methodology

Andy van den Dobbelsteen, Siebe Broersma, Michiel Fremouw, Tess Blom, Jelle Sturkenboom, Craig Martin

City-zen is an EU-funded interdisciplinary project that aims to develop and demonstrate energy-efficient cities and to build methods and tools for cities, industries and citizens…

Toward self-reliant development: Capacity gap within the built environment of Mt. Elgon rural inhabitants

Michaël Willem Maria Smits

The purpose of this paper is to present an extensive household survey amongst four rural communities on Mt. Elgon Kenya. The area is the chosen area for the author’s overall PhD…