Editorial
Editorial Eleni Tracada, PhD University of Derby - Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology - eleni.tracada@jbu.org One particularly gratifying aspect of this issue is the presence of papers, which clearly refer to the main themes of Biourbanism. The contributions of the authors for this first issue have been selected attentively in order to facilitate the beginning of refined [...]
A note by the President of the International Society of Biourbanism
A note by the President of the International Society of Biourbanism Antonio Caperna, PhD Università di Roma Tre - Facoltà di Architettura - antonio.caperna@biourbanism.org As President of the International Society of Biourbanism, I’m happy to welcome the first volume of Journal of Biourbanism. I am grateful to the editor in chief, Eleni Tracada, to my colleagues Archana Sharma, Alessia Cerqua [...]
Sustainable refurbishment as a driving factor of urban regeneration
Sustainable refurbishment as a driving factor of urban regeneration Evgenia Budanova - London, UK - budanova.e@gmail.com ABSTRACT This article is discussing advantages of the process of refurbishment, how it affects the environment and urban fabric. It also revises a case study of sustainable refurbishment of an industrial building as a successful example of such a conversion. Features of industrial [...]
Geothermal Heat Exchange as a basis for visioning the City of Tomorrow
Geothermal Heat Exchange as a basis for visioning the City of Tomorrow Robert J. Koester, AIA LEED AP - Professor of Architecture - Director of CERES - Ball State University. Muncie, Indiana, USA - rkoester@bsu.edu ABSTRACT The City (of Tomorrow) is here now – but only if we transform our current urban fabrics into organic whole systems of operational performance. [...]
A Vision for the Future of Havana
A Vision for the Future of Havana Julio César Pérez Hernández - President, Cuban Chapter CEU and INTBAU - jcaesar_2002@yahoo.co.uk ABSTRACT The Havana Master Plan aspires to recreate a pedestrian friendly urban ambience that encourages outdoor living – according to Cuban’s idiosyncrasy – and social and cultural integration where people can meet, work, relax and enjoy. It consists [...]
Stormwater management: Designing urban hydrological systems as infrascapes
Stormwater management: Designing urban hydrological systems as infrascapes Dipl.-Ing. Amiyo R. Ruhnke - Infrascape Studio, Hamburg, Germany - ruhnke@infrascape-studio.de ABSTRACT Water infrastructure tends to be designed as networked systems. Such systems can be found in nature as well, for example in the self-organizing systems of mycelia fungi. Understanding their mechanism leads to a design approach that interweaves urban water [...]
How to investigate and improve legibility of urban projects to make them understandable for blind people? Contribution of Social and Behavioral Sciences Methods to Design for All Approach
How to investigate and improve legibility of urban projects to make them understandable for blind people? Contribution of Social and Behavioral Sciences Methods to Design for All Approach Ewa Kuryłowicz, Zuzanna Bogucka Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Ewa.kurylowicz@apaka.com.pl ABSTRACT The following article is an overview of how well the architects are equipped with [...]
Green infrastructure planning: a contemporary approach for innovative interventions in urban landscape management
Green infrastructure planning: a contemporary approach for innovative interventions in urban landscape management Dr. Ian C. Mell Department of Town & Regional Planning - University of Sheffield - I.C.Mell@sheffield.ac.uk ABSTRACT Green infrastructure has become established as the central approach to landscape planning in the UK, Europe and North America over the past decade. Bringing together a number of [...]
Biophilia and Gaia: Two Hypotheses for an Affective Ecology
Biophilia and Gaia: Two Hypotheses for an Affective Ecology Giuseppe Barbiero, PhD Università della Valle d’Aosta / Université de la Vallée d’Aoste - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione – Faculté des Sciences de la Formation - Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Sustainability - Università degli studi di Torino - g.barbiero@univda.it ABSTRACT Affective Ecology is a new branch of ecology concerned with [...]
