Urban sprawl in Latin America is described as one of the major problems ‘the growth machine’. As a reaction, most planning policies are based on anti-sprawl narratives, while practice, urban has been thoroughly consolidated by all tiers government. In this paper – and using capital city Chile, Santiago, case study we challenge these politics light emerging environmental values associated meanin...

The urban planning is required to direct the cities development based on the sustainable use of its territory. On the other hand, Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a logic programming paradigm with the ability of non-monotonic reasoning, which has contributed to solving complex problems in a short period of time, providing a considerable number of possible outcomes to the same problem. The treatm...

virtual technology can be a useful tool for designing models of healthy urban environments. the resilience and sustainability in any urban environment involves the establishment and maintenance of the health of its citizens. the well-being of youth, the future workforce of every society, is a highly important consideration in the design of cities. cities are only truly sustainable when the work...

Urban water reuse is one of the most rapidly growing water reuse applications worldwide and one of the major elements of the sustainable management of urban water cycle. Because of the high probability of direct contact between consumers and recycled water, many technical and regulatory challenges have to be overcome in order to minimize health risks at affordable cost. This paper illustrates t...

Zhao Xu DITAG, Dept. of Land, Environment and Geoengineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Via Pier Carlo Boggio 61, 10138 Torino, Italy +39 3208339655 [email protected] Abstract: :Considering rapid population growth and urbanization, sustainability assessment of residential development has become increasingly necessary for understanding environmental impacts and supporting urban planning...

Given the current socioeconomic context, in which innovation is a key driver of sustainable development, what are the challenges facing information-based development and cooperation, in a way that contributes to regional policies that stimulate localized learning and indigenous development? This broad question has motivated the work behind the present paper, which considered the development of ...

Often centralized water supply, sanitation and solid waste services struggle to keep up with the rapid expansion of urban areas. The peri-urban areas are at the forefront of this expansion and it is here where decentralized technologies are increasingly being implemented. The introduction of decentralized technologies allows for the development of new opportunities that enable the recovery and ...

Virtual technology can be a useful tool for designing models of healthy urban environments. The resilience and sustainability in any urban environment involves the establishment and maintenance of the health of its citizens. The well-being of youth, the future workforce of every society, is a highly important consideration in the design of cities. Cities are only truly sustainable when the work...

Urban development with sustainable urban forms in high-density low-income Asian countries is a great challenge in the context of acute land scarcity. Though the model of compact cities is a natural choice for high-density urbanizing Asia, fierce competition for limited urban land resources without effective governance often results in an unfavorable form of densification and urban compaction. F...