Enhancing Sustainability in Downtown

Enhancing Sustainability in Downtown
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180
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9783639113099
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The need to better understand the actualities of urban redevelopment has been called upon numerous times. The major objective of this work is to discover or develop a new approach in urban redevelopment in order to make downtown areas more sustainable. This work proposed the concept of sustainable urban redevelopment, which combines urban redevelopment programs as a process and urban design as a substantial tool in the battle over sustainable values. Sustainable urban redevelopment is a new approach to balance the economic, social, and environmental outcomes through the urban redevelopment process in which social and environmental multipliers are used to enhance economic as well as social and environmental benefits. The work supports that good urban design leads to high level of satisfaction from occupants, while it also uncover the underlying structure that accounts for the relationship between a set of urban design features and triple-values (economic viability, social benefit, and...

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