The Sustainable City IX

Containing the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability this set of books addresses the multi-disciplinary aspects of urban planning; a result of the increasing size of cities; the amount of resources and services required and the complexity of modern society.

Most of earth’s population now lives in cities and the process of urbanisation continues generating many problems deriving from the drift of the population towards them. These problems can be resolved by cities becoming efficient habitats, saving resources in a way that improves the quality and standard of living. The process however, faces a number of major challenges, related to reducing pollution, improving main transportation and infrastructure systems. New urban solutions are required to optimise the use of space and energy resources leading to improvements in the environment, i.e. reduction in air, water and soil pollution as well as efficient ways to deal with waste generation. These challenges contribute to the development of social and economic imbalances and require the development of new solutions.

Topics covered include: Urban Strategies; Planning, Development and Management; Urban Metabolism; Quality of life; The Community and the City; Infrastructure and Society; The S3 City; Eco-town Planning; Spatial Conflicts in the City; Transportation; Urban Transport; Recent Advances on Urban Transportation Planning; Architectural Issues; Sustainable Energy and the City; Cultural Heritage Issus; Urban Conservation and Regeneration; Environmental Management; Flood Risk; Waste Management; Urban Air Pollution; Health Issues; Air Pollution; Water Resources; Case Studies.

Simone Bastianoni

Simone Bastianoni is a professor of environmental and cultural heritage chemistry in the Department of Chemical and Biosystems Technologies at the University of Siena, Italy. He received his MS degree in Electronical Engineering at the University of Padua in 1990. In 1995 he received a Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences at the Universities of Siena and Perugia. He was researcher in Environmental Chemistry at the University of Siena (1997-2005), and Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry (2005-2006) at the University of Siena. His research focuses on the use of sustainability indicators based on thermodynamics, the application of thermodynamics to ecological systems and of kinetic models to systems of environmental relevance. He is author of more than 80 papers published in international journals.

Nadia Marchettini

Nadia Marchettini is a Professor of environmental and ecultural heritage chemistry in the Department of Chemical and Biosystems Technologies at the University of Siena, Italy.

Professor Marchettini received an MS in Biology and a Ph.D. Chemistry from the University of Siena where the professor’s research focuses on nonlinear dynamics, with applications in the fields of chemistry, biology and the environment, in the field of nulear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, applied to biological systems, and in the field of environmental chemistry, with particular attention to the role of photosynthesis and of entropy, to the energy analysis of biomass,and to the thermodynamic analysis and study of energy flow in the ecosystem, as well as modelling the physical-chemical parameters involved in those processes that are of biological and environmental importance. She is associate editor of the WIT Press series Advances in Ecological Sciences.

Riccardo Pulselli

Riccardo Pulselli is an architect and a professor in the degree course in Technologies for monitoring and environmental restoration of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Siena, Italy.

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