Unravelling Sustainability and Resilience in the Built Environment 1st Edition by Emilio Jose Garcia, Brenda Vale ISBN 9781315629087 1315629089

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ISBN 10: 1315629089
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Author: Emilio Jose Garcia, Brenda Vale

Unravelling Sustainability and Resilience in the Built Environment 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part 1 Definitions

1 Unravelling

1.1 The built environment

1.2 Environmentalism and the built environment

1.3 A resilient built environment

1.4 Institutionalization of definitions: sustainability

1.5 Institutionalization of definitions: resilience

1.6 Unravelling sustainability and resilience

Bibliography

2 Defining sustainability

2.1 Living within one’s means

2.2 The emergence of modern sustainability

2.3 Sustainability thinking: continuity within limits

2.4 What is to be sustained?

2.5 Development, evolution and sustainability

Progress

Development in history

Urbanism and progress

2.6 Technological development and sustainability

Efficiency

Unforeseen consequences

2.7 Sustainability and economics

2.8 Sustainable design

2.9 Happiness: the ultimate goal of sustainability?

2.10 A sustainable society

Notes

Bibliography

3 Defining resilience

3.1 Why bother with resilience?

3.2 Why architects, urban and landscape designers should care about resilience

3.3 Why bother with the definition of resilience?

3.4 Early definitions

Resilience in engineering

Resilience in psychology

Resilience in ecology

3.5 The consolidation of ecological resilience

Complexity, adaptive systems and resilience

Panarchy and the adaptive cycle

Heterogeneity and discontinuities

3.6 The expansion of ecological resilience: from ecology to social science

The characterization and bifurcation of resilience

Resilience and identity

Resilience and thresholds

General and specific resilience

Resilience strategies

Resilience, novelty and adaptation

3.7 What resilience is not: misunderstandings

Disciplines researching resilience

Resilience is not the same as vulnerability

Resilience is not the same as adaptation

3.8 Critics of the concept of resilience

Vagueness

Adaptation to capitalism

Philosophical approach and ethics

3.9 Conclusions

Framing definitions

What is the importance of resilience for designers of the built environment?

What opportunities can designers exploit?

Bibliography

4 Mapping sustainability and resilience

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Similarities

Future thinking

You need to know where you are starting from

Conscious choice

Change is core

Invisibility

Systems thinking

Persistence

4.3 Differences

The size of the system under discussion

Perception of the outcome

Having a goal or being the property of a system

Controlling or coping with change

Stability versus multiple stability states

Qualitative and quantitative

Regulation versus self-regulation

Understanding versus predicting

Ethics

Pro-active versus reactive

Achievability: ideal versus real

Governability

4.4 Emergent themes

Discussion

Bibliography

Part 2 Case studies

Introduction

5 Eco-cities

5.1 Why eco-cities?

What should an eco-city be?

Should we be building eco-cities?

The ideal city

5.2 Whitehill and Bordon, Hampshire: a UK eco-town

5.3 Tianjin Eco-city, China

Perceptions of Tianjin Eco-city

Tianjin Eco-city built environment

Assessment of Tianjin Eco-city

Is Tianjin Eco-city sustainable?

Is Tianjin Eco-city resilient?

5.4 Conclusion

Bibliography

6 Heritage

6.1 Persistence

6.2 Identity

Using identity to understand resilience

6.3 Why link heritage and sustainability

6.4 Why link heritage and resilience?

6.5 The built heritage is more than old buildings

A designer’s perspective

6.6 Braudel and Waisman

6.7 Case study: the inheritance of San Miguel de Tucuman in Argentina

Large-scale and long duration: the grid and the city centre

Middle scale and duration: the sausage houses and their plots

Short duration, big and small scales

Understanding the heritage of Tucuman through its Panarchy

6.8 Humble heritage: the tube houses of Hanoi

Traditional tube house and neo-tube house (outside the ancient quarter)

Learning from the tube houses

6.9 Conclusions

Bibliography

7 Compact cities

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Density

7.3 Intensity

7.4 Compactness

Defining the compact city

Compaction and change

Compaction and tightness

7.5 The example of Auckland

7.6 Sustainability and a compact built environment

7.7 Compaction and resilience

7.8 Conclusions

Conclusion to Part 2

Bibliography

Part 3 Measuring sustainability and resilience in the built environment

Introduction

8 Measuring sustainability

8.1 The issues

8.2 Measuring sustainability with carbon footprint

8.3 Measuring sustainability with the ecological footprint

8.4 Measuring sustainability with indicators

8.5 Measuring the sustainability of the built environment

8.6 Measuring the sustainability of buildings

8.7 Measuring the sustainability of people

Bibliography

9 Measuring resilience

9.1 State of the art in the measurement of resilience

The measurement of resilience

Frameworks to measure resilience in ecology

Frameworks to measure the resilience of cities

Who is measuring ecological resilience?

9.2 How to build an urban Panarchy

Framing problems

Scales in ecology and the built environment

Slow and fast

Timelines

Timelines in the built environment

Changes, resilience and collapse

Constructing and evaluating an urban Panarchy

9.3 Assessing the texture of urban landscapes

Panarchy, complexity and heterogeneity

Analysing the heterogeneity of urban landscapes: finding aggregations and discontinuities

The use of aggregations and discontinuities to assess resilience in urban landscapes

9.4 Conclusions

Bibliography

10 Assessing resilience and sustainability

10.1 Assessing an urban Panarchy in the Auckland CBD

Understanding the history of the system

Timeline at the scale of New Zealand

Timeline at the scale of Auckland

Period 1 (1840–59)

Period 2 (1860–79)

Period 3 (1880–9)

Period 4 (1890–1929)

Period 5 (1930–49)

Period 6 (1950–69)

Period 7 (1970–2012)

Timeline at the scale of the Auckland CBD

(1840–50)

(1850–70)

(1870–1915)

(1915–69)

Period 5 (1970–2012)

Observations on the timelines

Assessing change in a quantitative way

10.2 Assessing relative resilience in urban landscapes using discontinuities and aggregations

Assumptions and departure points

Defining the boundaries of the system

The variables

Finding discontinuities

10.3 Measuring relative resilience

10.4 Measuring sustainability and resilience together

10.5 Conclusions

Bibliography

11 Conclusion

11.1 Confusion in sustainability and resilience

11.2 Sustainability and resilience

A sustainable city is first a city

11.3 Applying ecological resilience to the built environment

What does a sustainable and resilient urban area look like?

You can measure only what you can measure

11.4 Why it might be worth applying resilience in built environments

Cities are much more complex systems than ecosystems

You have to know where you are before going somewhere else

Designing for persistence and change

Maintaining lifestyles or sustaining life

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