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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Eco-Towers: Sustainable Cities in the Sky -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 1: The rise of the eco-tower -- 1. The Early Phase (1875 to 1915) -- 2. The Eclectic Phase (1916 to 1940) -- 3. The Modernism Phase (1950 to 1979) -- 4. The Postmodernism and High-Tech Phase (1980-1989) -- 5. The Age of Pluralism, or the Fifth Skyscraper Age (1990 to Present) -- 6. Early Eco-Towers -- Chapter 2: Principles of sustainable design -- 1. Passive Design Strategies -- 2. Facade Technology -- 3. Building Materials and Structural Systems |
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2. Retrofitting Skyscrapers: Case Studies -- 3. Greening Programs and Initiatives -- 4. Software development and applications -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 7: The vertical farm -- 1. Overview -- 2. High-tech indoor farming -- 3. Vertical Farm Project Examples -- 4. Continuing challenges -- Chapter 8: Eco-iconic towers -- 1. Southeast Asia and Far East -- 2. Middle East -- 3. Europe -- 4. North America -- 5. Aesthetics and Key Green Design Features -- 6. Conclusions -- Chapter 9: Technological advancement and futuristic towers -- 1. New technologies -- 2. Visionary towers |
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3. Visionary cities in the sky -- Chapter 10: Integrating tall buildings in the sustainable city: Toward a comprehensive approach -- 1. Social consideration -- 2. Economic Factors -- 3. Environmental Factors -- 4. City Infrastructure -- 5. Sustainable High-Rise Cities -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- About the Author |
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4. Environmental Control Systems -- 5. Safety Measures -- 6. Quality in Space Programming -- 7. Renewable Energy and Resources -- 8. Microclimates Around Tall Buildings -- 9. Quality of Construction -- 10. Management and Operations -- Chapter 3: Green skyscrapers -- 1. Europe -- 2. North America -- 3. Asia -- 4. The Middle East -- 5. Australia -- Chapter 4: Green rating systems -- 1. Overview -- 2. Debating LEED -- 3. LEED Version 4 -- Chapter 5: LEED skyscrapers -- 1. North America -- 2. Asia -- 3. The Middle East -- Chapter 6: Green retrofitting skyscrapers -- 1. Overview |
| Summary |
Eco-Towers introduces readers to groundbreaking designs, most progressive projects, and innovative ways of thinking about a new generation of green skyscrapers that could provide solutions to crises the world faces today including climate change, depleting resources, deteriorating ecology, population increase, decreasing food supply, urban heat island effect, pollution, deforestation, and more. The book suggests that the eco-tower culminates the cultural and technological evolutions of the 21st century by building and improving on the experiences of earlier designs of skyscrapers and philosophies particularly green, sustainable, and ecological. It argues that the true green skyscraper is the one that engages successfully with its larger urban context by establishing symbiotic relationships with the social, economic, and environmental aspects. Since tall buildings are becoming larger and taller, serving greater number of people, and exerting higher demand on the environment and existing infrastructure, any improvements in their design and construction will significantly enhance urban conditions. The book elucidates how green skyscrapers better serve tenants, mitigate environmental impacts, and improve integration with the city infrastructure. It explains how skyscrapers' long life cycle offers the greatest justifications for recycling precious resources, and makes it a worthwhile to employ green features in constructing new skyscrapers and retrofitting existing ones. Subsequently, the book explores new designs that are employing cutting-edge green technologies at a grand scale including water-saving technologies, solar panels, helical wind turbines, sunlight-sensing LED lights, rainwater catchment systems, graywater and blackwater recycling systems, seawater-powered air conditioning, and the like. In the future, new building materials and smart |
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Technologies will continue to offer innovative design approaches to sustainable tall buildings with new aesthetics, referred to as "eco-iconic" skyscrapers |
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Print version record |
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Tall buildings -- Environmental aspects
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Sustainable architecture.
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Sustainable buildings.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
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Sustainable architecture
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Sustainable buildings
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Tall buildings -- Environmental aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781784660185 |
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1784660183 |
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