Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures

Chapter 1: A time and a place for everything.- Chapter 2: Smart Cities of Tomorrow.- Chapter 3: Rethinking Urban Landscapes: Self-Supported Infrastructure, Technology and Territory.- Chapter 4: Invincible Cities for the Materiomic Age.- Chapter 5: Qualitative Affects of Building Life Cycle: The Formation of Architectural Matter.- Chapter 6: Other Cities.- Chapter 7: Urban Parangolé: The Syncretic City.- Chapter 8: High Performance Buildings: Measures, Complexity, and Current Trends.- Chapter 9: Ecocities: the role of networks of green and blue spaces.- Chapter 10: Decarbonising City Precincts: An Australian Perspective.- Chapter 11: The rebirth of distance in the context of urban sustainability.- Chapter 12: Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures Urban heat island mitigation techniques for sustainable cities.- Chapter 13: Building Conservation Towards a Sustainable Future: Use Of GPR.- Chapter 14: Evaluation of the shading efficiency of the shading devices installed in the tram stations in Athens.- Chapter 15: Modeling and Control of Large and Flexible Wind Turbines in Variable Speed Mode.- Chapter 16: Sustainable Design for Campus Residential Housing.- Chapter 17: House Biographies: Housing Studies on the Smallest Urban Scale.- Chapter 18: For the Smarter Good of Cities - On the Urban Predicament, Complexity and Slippages in the Smart City Discourse.