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• Foreward / Chan Heng Chee
• Dense + green agendas
• The dense and green paradigm / Thomas Schröpfer
• Dense and green technologies / Naree Phinyawatana
• Blue-green infrastructures for buildings and liveable cities / Herbert Dreiseitl
• Biological functionalities of green / Jean W. H. Yong
• Green urbanism: models of a dense and green urban context / Kees Christiaanse
• Dense and green building typologies / Thomas Schröpfer
• Dense + green case studies
• Institutional
• Office
• Residential
• Infrastructure
• Mixed use
• Dense + green practice reports
• Dense + green future
• Future trajectories / Thomas Schröpfer.

The integration of nature in architecture is a key concern of sustainability. However, all too often sustainable design is reduced to improving the energetic performance of buildings and the ornamental application of natural green. Dense + Green explores new architectural typologies that emerge from the integration of green components such as sky terraces, vertical parks and green facades, in high-density buildings. The book describes green strategies in a comparison across different design tasks and climate conditions. In-depth case studies on the most relevant building types, consistently presented with analytical drawings made exclusively for this book, are complemented by expert essays that demonstrate the current paradigm shift in the sustainable urban environment. From the Contents: *Dense + Green Building Types, by Thomas Schroepfer, architect, Singapore University of Technology and Design *Dense + Green Building Technology, by Atelier Ten, environmental design consultants and building services engineers, New York, NY *Dense + Green Landscape Design, by Herbert Dreiseitl, landscape architect, Atelier Dreiseitl/Ramboll Liveable Cities Lab, UEberlingen/Singapore/Portland, OR *Dense + Green Botanical Design, by Jean Yong, plant eco-physiologist, Singapore University of Technology and Design *Dense + Green Urbanism, by Kees Christiaanse, urban planner, ETH Zurich *25 in-depth case studies from Europe, Asia and the USA *Practice Reports by Foster + Partners, WOHA, Ken Yeang, MVRDV and others.
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• Table of Contents ; Foreword ; Dense + Green Agendas ; The Dense and Green Paradigm ; Dense and Green Technologies ; Blue-Green Infrastructures for Buildings and Liveable Cities ; Biological Functionalities of Green ; Green Urbanism. Models of a Dense and Green Urban Context.

• Dense and Green Building Typologies Dense + Green Case Studies ; Institutional ; Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Picardie ; Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center ; Khoo Teck Puat Hospital ; School of the Arts ; Nanyang Technological University Learning Hub ; Office.

• Ministry for Urban Development and the Environment Phare Tower Project ; Federal Environment Agency ; Solaris ; National University Health System Tower Block ; Residential ; Mountain Dwellings ; Vertical Garden House ; Via Verde ; Newton Suites ; The Interlace ; Infrastructure.

• The Amager Bakke Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant 196 Support Facility ; Transbay Transit Center ; Changi Airport Terminal 3 ; Mixed Use ; Urban Mountain ; Maquinnext ; One Central Park ; Oasia Downtown ; South Beach Road ; Dense + Green Practice Reports.

• Foster + Partners Practice Report. Environmental Performance Optimization on the Urban and Building Scale MVRDV Practice Report. New Nature ; WOHA Practice Report. High Density, High Liveability ; T.R. Hamzah & Yeang Practice Report. Systemic Environmental Integration.

The integration of nature in architecture is a key concern of sustainability. However, all too often sustainable design is reduced to improving the energetic performance of buildings and the ornamental application of natural green. Dense + Green explores new architectural typologies that emerge from the integration of green components such as sky terraces, vertical parks and green facades, in high-density buildings. The book describes green strategies in a comparison across different design tasks and climate conditions. In-depth case studies on the most relevant building types, consistently presented with analytical drawings made exclusively for this book, are complemented by expert essays that demonstrate the current paradigm shift in the sustainable urban environment. From the Contents: *Dense + Green Building Types, by Thomas Schroepfer, architect, Singapore University of Technology and Design *Dense + Green Building Technology, by Atelier Ten, environmental design consultants and building services engineers, New York, NY *Dense + Green Landscape Design, by Herbert Dreiseitl, landscape architect, Atelier Dreiseitl/Ramboll Liveable Cities Lab, UEberlingen/Singapore/Portland, OR *Dense + Green Botanical Design, by Jean Yong, plant eco-physiologist, Singapore University of Technology and Design *Dense + Green Urbanism, by Kees Christiaanse, urban planner, ETH Zurich *25 in-depth case studies from Europe, Asia and the USA *Practice Reports by Foster + Partners, WOHA, Ken Yeang, MVRDV and others.
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Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life. How do we move from the current reality in most cites--separated uses and lengthy commutes in single-occupancy vehicles that drain human, environmental, and community resources--to support a soft city approach? In Soft City David Sim, partner and creative director at Gehl, shows how this is possible, presenting ideas and graphic examples from around the globe. He draws from his vast design experience to make a case for a dense and diverse built environment at a human scale, which he presents through a series of observations of older and newer places, and a range of simple built phenomena, some traditional and some totally new inventions. Sim shows that increasing density is not enough. The soft city must consider the organization and layout of the built environment for more fluid movement and comfort, a diversity of building types, and thoughtful design to ensure a sustainable urban environment and society. Soft City begins with the big ideas of happiness and quality of life, and then shows how they are tied to the way we live. The heart of the book is highly visual and shows the building blocks for neighborhoods: building types and their organization and orientation; how we can get along as we get around a city; and living with the weather. As every citizen deals with the reality of a changing climate, Soft City explores how the built environment can adapt and respond. Soft City offers inspiration, ideas, and guidance for anyone interested in city building. Sim shows how to make any city more efficient, more livable, and better connected to the environment.
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• Urban block shapers
• Housing and landscapes
• Superblock configurations
• Tall towers
• Big buildings
• Infrastructural engagements
• Indigenous reinterpretations
• Infill and puntal interventions
• Housing special populations
• A turning point.

This book combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that urban intensity determines the success of housing. The authors provide a typology of housing according to the ways in which diversity and density are created. Comparisons with historical models and critical appraisals based on the authors' unique standing give information on the pros and cons of major types of housing, their pitfalls and successful examples.
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Shocking in description and crammed with detail, this book is about where and how geopolitics plays out in the twenty-first century. Drawing on the authors'three decades of international field work and seasoned policy analysis, The Real Population Bomb hits like a pile driver. Its essential truths can no longer be ignored: we have never been here before in human history. The choices we make in this next decade will determine the fate of human societies. By 2025, twenty-seven cities will have populations greater than ten million and over six hundred cities will have populations greater than one million. Specific megacities, intimately connected to globalization, are posing huge security challenges-now. Liotta and Miskel focus intensely on effects these massive, underserved, and undergoverned cities have on international stability, human security, and environmental degradation, and offer strategies and solutions for mitigating those effects. Their stark, often stunning, portraits of major urban centers in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America illuminate how megacity Leviathans are redrawing the map of the future-in ways that affect us all. You may not agree with this book's message. But it will prove difficult to forget.
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• Photo Essay by Claudia Klein; The Att uned City by Dietmar Eberle; DENSITY ANALYSES; Introduction- "You just have to get through it"; APPROACH, METHODOLOGY, AND TERMINOLOGY; The Districts- 36 Urban Districts in 9 Density Categories; Density Category 1 (<0.4): Single-Family House Idyll 1:; House and Garden Density Category 2 (0.4
• 0.6): Single-Family House Idyll 2:; Urban Garden Cities Density Category 3 (0.6
• 0.9): Urban Apartments in Green Areas 1:; Houses and Rows Density Category 4 (0.9
• 1.2): Urban Apartments in Green Areas 2.

• Row and Courtyard Density Category 5 (1.2
• 1.5): Urban Apartments in Green Areas 3:Courtyard and Garden Density Category 6 (1.5
• 1.9): Inner-City Mixture 1:; Courtyard and Street Density Category 7 (1.9
• 2.3): Inner-City Mixture 2:; Grids, Axes, and Squares Density Category 8 (2.3
• 2.7): Inner-City Mixture 3:; Historic Suburbs and City Centers Density Category 9 (> 2.7): Inner-City Mixture 4:; Commercial Centers Eval uation
• Density, Atmosphere, and Numbers; Density Categories and their Parameters; The Cities and their Parameters; Concl usions
• Density and Atmosphere.

• The City as Social SpaceThe City as Residential Space; The City as Living Space; DENSITY STORIES; Berlin by Bettina Erasmy (Berlin); Only Playing by Matthias Kiefersauer (Munich); City and Atmosphere . Impressions of Vienna by Franz Schuh (Vienna); Forest Fever by Gerhard Meister (Zurich); DENSITY CATALOG; Glossary of Terms; Figure-Ground Plans of the Cities; Density Category 1 (<0.4): Single-Family House Idyll 1:; House and Garden Density Category 2 (0.4
• 0.6): Single-Family House Idyll 2:; Urban Garden Cities Density Category 3 (0.6
• 0.9): Urban A partments in Green Areas 1.

• Houses and Rows Density Category 4 (0.9
• 1.2): Urban Apartments in Green Areas 2:Row and Courtyard Density Category 5 (1.2
• 1.5): Urban Apartments in Green Areas 3:; Courtyard and Garden Density Category 6 (1.5
• 1.9): Inner-City Mixture 1:; Courtyard and Street Density Category 7 (1.9
• 2.3): Inner-City Mixture 2:; Grids, Axes, and Squares Density Category 8 (2.3
• 2.7): Inner-City Mixture 3:; Historic Suburbs and City Centers Density Category 9 (> 2.7): Inner-City Mixture 4:; Commercial Centers City Diagrams; Biographies; Photo Credits; Imprint, Acknowledgments.

This book offers a thorough study of the relationship between the characteristics of construction density and the ensuing atmospheres, distribution of uses and their value. 36 case study examples in Zurich, Vienna, Munich and Berlin were documented and assessed, from the outskirts to the center of the city with photographs and detailed map material according to ninedensity categories that take public space into account.
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Shocking in description and crammed with detail, this book is about where and how geopolitics plays out in the twenty-first century. Drawing on the authors'three decades of international field work and seasoned policy analysis, The Real Population Bomb hits like a pile driver. Its essential truths can no longer be ignored: we have never been here before in human history. The choices we make in this next decade will determine the fate of human societies. By 2025, twenty-seven cities will have populations greater than ten million and over six hundred cities will have populations greater than one million. Specific megacities, intimately connected to globalization, are posing huge security challenges-now. Liotta and Miskel focus intensely on effects these massive, underserved, and undergoverned cities have on international stability, human security, and environmental degradation, and offer strategies and solutions for mitigating those effects. Their stark, often stunning, portraits of major urban centers in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America illuminate how megacity Leviathans are redrawing the map of the future-in ways that affect us all. You may not agree with this book's message. But it will prove difficult to forget.
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• Foreword. Donald Watson.
• 1. Introduction: Compact urban form, density and sustainability: Correlations and holistic approaches. Joo Hwa Philip Bay and Steffen Lehmann.
• Part 1: Framing the Question: Unravelling the Link between Density, Sustainability and Compact Cities.
• 2. Urban lifelines to achieve climate resiliency. Donald Watson.
• 3. Planning ethics and urban density: Overcoming fear in Anglo Saxon cities. Peter Newman.
• 4. Density, sprawl and sustainable urban development: Perspectives from the Asian and Pacific region. Paul Jones and Donovan Storey.
• 5. The challenge of transforming low-density cities into compact cities: The case of the City of Perth. Steffen Lehmann.
• 6. Compact city and sustainable high-density living: Social-environmental holistic approach. Joo Hwa Philip Bay.
• Part 2: Quality of Living and Social Dimensions Relating to Environmental Sustainability.
• 7. The sustainable city: A good and secure quality of life? Mike Jenks.
• 8. Density, Compact Urban Form and Sustainability in the Netherlands. Jeroen Mensink and Frank D. van der Hoeven.
• 9. Security and density: A paradox of public protection at the expense of personal privacy. Emil Jonescu.
• 10. Dense and aging: Social sustainability of public places amidst high-density development. Keng Hua Chong, Kien To and Michael M.J. Fischer.
• 11. Creating green space in the compact city: A Swedish perspective on a global issue. Walker Wells, Tigran Haas and Helene Littke.
• Part 3: Compact Resource Management, Greening and Integration with Urban Form.
• 12. Green Plot Ratio and MUtopia. Boon Lay Ong, Ole Fryd, Dominique Hes, Tuan Duc Ngo and Lu Aye.
• 13. Density and sustainable integration of decentralised water and energy systems. Martin Anda.
• 14. The shape of resilience: A framework for integrating regenerative production of localised food and energy within a urban community. Steve Herselman and Joo Hwa Philip Bay.
• 15. Food production and high-density living in Singapore. Joo Hwa Philip Bay, Owen L.C. Wee and Sunjyot Singh.
• Part 4: Design Systems and Structural Approaches Impacting Density and Sustainability.
• 16. Hong Kong: Appearing dense, yet growing smarter. Tom Verebes.
• 17. Relationship between density, urban form and environmental performance. Chye Kiang Heng, Lai Choo Malone-Lee and Ji Zhang.
• 18. Housing innovation for compact, resilient cities. Caitlin McGee, Laura Wynne and Steffen Lehmann.
• 19. To follow the Australian dream or to embrace urban densification: A prolonged debate? Shahed Khan and Andrew Carville.
• Part 5: Policies, Guidelines, Methods and Decision Making Relating to Development for Density and Sustainability.
• 20. Imagining optimum, not hyper, density: Lessons learnt from high-density cases and a proposed framework for quality density. Steffen Lehmann. 21.Growing Sydney: Advocacy for urban density. Chris Johnson.
• 22. Shrinking compact: Lessons from Japanese cities. Tadashi Matsumoto.
• 23. Density and sustainability: Strange bedfellows? Christopher T. Boyko and Rachel Cooper. Index.
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Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability explores and unravels the phenomena, links and benefits between density, compactness and the sustainability of cities. It looks at the socio-climatic implications of density and takes a more holistic approach to sustainable urbanism by understanding the correlations between the social, economic and environmental dimensions of the city, and the challenges and opportunities with density. The book presents contributions from internationally well-known scholars, thinkers and practitioners whose theoretical and practical works address city planning, urban and architectural design for density and sustainability at various levels, including challenges in building resilience against climate change and natural disasters, capacity and integration for growth and adaptability, ageing, community and security, vegetation, food production, compact resource systems and regeneration.
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