The Sustainable City V ― Urban Regeneration and Sustainability

The sixty-nine papers here address many aspects of urban environments, among them cultural heritage, architectural issues, urban strategies, sustainable transportation and transport integration, the community and the city, public safety, natural resources, and waste management. Among specific topics are waterfront regeneration as a sustainable approach to city development in Malaysia, the city surface as a source of heavy metal emission, agency procedures for mitigating damage to cultural heritage in US federal and state administrative law, striving for a more sustainable Belgian dwelling stock, the impact of physical environment on aspects of social sustainability, inserting bus rapid transit into the existing transportation system in Mexico City, how the resource curse affects urban development in East Timor, the effectiveness of community participation in planning and urban development, risk assessment in the cities of Estonia and Britain, a methodological proposal for planning the rural-urban interface under sustainable principles, green living envelopes for food and energy production in cities, and the regional integrated waste management concept in Slovenia. There is no subject index. The US office of WIT Press is Computational Mechanics. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)