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Degrowth, as a social movement, a political project, and an academic paradigm, aims tofind ways that can lead to harmonious co-existence between humanity and nature, between humansand non-humans, and within humanity, including oneself. Seen through the lens of degrowth,everything becomes subject to reflection, critique, re-evaluation, and re-imagining. This concernsenvironments created by humans in a long process of interaction with nature, i.e., built environments.Built environments are always in becoming. This entry contemplates the implications of degrowthfor intentionally directing this becoming towards genuine sustainability.

In the wake of global crises concerning, for example, inequalities, migration, pandemics, and the environment, ethical concerns have come to the fore. In this thematic issue, we are especially interested in the role that the planning, design, and materialities of the built environment can take in relation to ethics, and we present four different openings or themes into urban ethics that we also think are worthy of further interrogation. First of all, we suggest that new ethics evolve around new materialities, i.e., urban development and new design solutions are always accompanied by new ethical issues that we need to tackle. Secondly, we highlight different aspects involved in the design and ethics of community building. Thirdly, we address the issue of sustainable planning by pointing to some its shortcomings, and especially the need to addressing ethical concerns in a more coherent way. Finally, we point to the need to further investigate communication, translation, and influence in participatory design processes. Taken together, we hope that this issue—by highlighting these themes in a series of different articles—can inspire further studies into the much needed field of investigation that is urban ethics.

The relationships between people and the built environment for scale jumping are explored in guidelines with best practice examples for policymakers and developers showing different ways of interpreting scale jumping to meet climate neutrality goals. In doing so, it clearly illustrates the relations between concepts and actual implementations, and local factors such as co-creation for the inclusion of citizen participation. Different factors and interactions will be defined in the first section, in view of the many and varied ways to jump in scale. It begins with an exploration of the overall contextual considerations and how scale jumping may be considered within the Restore Project. In the second section, district-level innovations implemented within three different Lighthouse Cities (LHC) will be illustrated as part of the Smarter Together case study. All project partners benefit from an open exchange with stakeholders from academia, local government, local citizens, and innovative SMEs. The relationship between health and the built environment with the essential factors for scale jumping will be explored in the third section. Several international building assessment tools and their relations with Human Building Interactions will be described in the last section, giving special consideration to the impacts of building quality on human health and healthy indoor environments.

AbstractCollective efficacy is a prominent explanation for neighborhood crime concentrations. Just as crime is concentrated in particular neighborhoods, within‐neighborhoods crime is concentrated in particular criminogenic locations. Research suggests criminogenic locations are determined by features of the built environment. This study links collective efficacy with situational opportunity to propose that collective efficacy facilitates the removal of criminogenic features of the built environment. I test this by examining associations 1) between past collective efficacy and present criminogenic features of the built environment, as well as 2) between those built environment features and crime, net of present collective efficacy. These are modeled using piecewise structural equations with generalized linear mixed‐effect regressions on data from 1,641 blocks in 343 Chicago neighborhoods. Four types of police‐reported crime are modeled using eight block‐level built environment features in the 2003 Chicago Community Area Health Study (CCAHS; N = 3,074) and neighborhood collective efficacy from the CCAHS and the 1995 Project in Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) Community Survey (N = 7,672). Findings suggest neighborhoods with high collective efficacy maintain low rates of crime in part by limiting criminogenic built environment features, in particular, abandoned buildings. This crime control pathway is important because changes to the built environment are long lasting and reduce the need for future interventions against crime.

This book contains a collection of studies that have been conducted among older residents in Singapore. Different methods, from surveys to crowd sourcing, have been used to investigate the older adults' lived experiences and social participation in the residential environment. The findings reveal that older residents interact with the built environment in ways that reflect their changing capabilities and lifestyles. Since the built environment - where we live and go - can have an important impact on our daily lives, especially among older people, understanding these experiences and perceived needs is important to help older individuals age within their community.

Intro -- BUILT ENVIRONMENT: DESIGN, MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATIONS -- BUILT ENVIRONMENT: DESIGN, MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATIONS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 THE RHETORIC AND REALITY OF CULTURE-LED URBAN REGENERATION- A COMPARISON OF BEIJING AND SHANGHAI, CHINA -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Beijing's Cultural Development: Underground Culture and Urban Space -- 2.1 The Rise of Underground Culture -- 2.2 Actors: From Yuanmingyuan Village to Beijing 798 -- 2.3 From Practicality to Heritage Conservation with a BoBo Style -- 3. Shanghai's Cultural Development: Commerce, Cosmopolitan and Urban Space -- 3.1 A Review of Culture and Derivatives in Shanghai -- 3.2 The Story of Shanghai: From Suzhou Creek to Red Town -- 3.3 Playing the Cards of Industrial Past in the Era of Deindustrialization -- 4. The Later Development -- 4.1 Exploring the Strategy Towards a New Economy -- 4.2 Social Divide and Gentrification -- References -- Chapter 2 RURAL GENTRIFICATION AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: EXPLORING THE CONNECTIONS -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Built Environment and the Concept of Gentrification: Lessons from Urban Studies -- New-Build and Rurality -- Rural Gentrification and the Built Environment: Going beyond Building Perspectives -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 THE MATHEMATICS OF STYLE IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: A COMPUTATIONAL, FRACTAL ANALYSIS OF FORMAL COMPLEXITY IN FIFTEEN DOMESTIC DESIGNS -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Fractal Geometry and Architecture -- The Fractal Analysis Method -- Fifteen Houses, Three Stylistic Periods -- Results -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4 THE USE OF THE 3D LASER SCANNER IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The 3D Laser Scanner Technology -- 2.1 Concept and Definitions -- 2.1.1 Point clouds.

In the last decade access for disabled people to public buildings has become an important part of the political agenda. Yet, one of the main forms of discrimination which still persists against disabled people is an inaccessible built environment. In particular, statutory authorities have been slow to acknowledge the mobility and access needs of disabled people, and the legislative base to back up local authority policies remains largely ineffectual and weak. In this paper, the interrelationships between disability and the built environment are considered by focusing on the role of the UK land-use planning system in securing access provision for disabled people.

Although research has examined differences in people's responses to natural versus technologically caused disasters, research has not examined the differences in people's attitudes toward disasters in natural versus built environments. This study examined the effects of the type of environment and awareness of the problem on attitudes toward the cleanup of oil spills. The results showed that the type of environment did not affect ratings of the importance of the environmental problem or how it should be cleaned up. However, people were more concerned about the environmental and community impacts of the cleanup process in the built environment. Awareness of the problem was a more important factor than type of environment for understanding attitudes toward the oil spill cleanup. People who were more aware of the oil spills viewed the problems as more important and were more concerned that the environments be returned to their previous states.

"This text combines an examination of how the physical environment affects our health with a description of how public health and urban planning can work together to create environments that improve human health and well-being. The author covers a wealth of topics including foundations, the joint history of public health and urban planning, transportation and land use, infrastructure and natural disasters, assessment tools, indoor air quality, water quality, food security, health disparities, mental health, social capital, and environmental justice. The Built Environment and Public Health is written for students and professionals involved in public health, urban planning, transportation, architecture, and the environment. "--

This e-book draws on the wide range of expertise that built environment professionals can contribute towards increasing resilience to disasters. It compiles original papers which were prepared for a panel of the Building Education and Research Conference, held in Kandalama, Sri Lanka, between 11th and 15th February 2008. The papers address different stages of the disaster management lifecycle, from pre-disaster risk reduction, through to post-disaster response and relief, and finally, long term sustainable reconstruction

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction-Mahyuddin Ramli and Hugh Byrd -- Chapter 2: Energy, Climate Change and the Built Environment: Malaysia-Hugh Byrd -- Chapter 3: Landscape Architecture and the Issue of Sustainability in the Built Environment-Jamel Ariffin -- Chapter 4: Recycling Scrap Tyres into Engineering and Construction Materials-Abd. Naser Abd. Ghani -- Chapter 5: Sustainability in the Practice of Historic Building Conservation-A. Ghafar Ahmad -- Chapter 6: Ferrocement Technology for Sustainable Engineering Construction-Mahyuddin Ramli -- Chapter 7: Sustainable Construction: Issues in the Malaysian Construction Industry-Nazirah Zainul Abidin -- Chapter 8: Planning for Sustainable Housing Development-Abdul Ghani Salleh -- Chapter 9: Planning for a Sustainable Retail Environment in Malaysia-Nurwati Badarulzaman -- Chapter 10: Future Design in an Energy Efficient Building as an Identity of a Malaysian Tropical Architecture: Emphasis on Photovoltaic Technology and Passive Solar Building Design Elements-Abdul Malek Abdul Rahman -- Chapter 11: Sustainable Design: Learning from the Traditional Malay Architecture-Zulkifli Hanafi -- Chapter 12: Sustainability in Tourism: Ecotourism Development Issues in Malaysia-Ahmad Puad Mat Som -- Chapter 13: Conclusion-Mahyuddin Ramli and Hugh Byrd -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover