Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning: Creating Smart Cities

Ozge Yalciner Ercoskun (Gazi University, Turkey)

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ISBN13: 9781613504536

EISBN13: 9781613504543

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-453-6

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Ecological and technological (eco-tech) planning provides a possible response to the essential issues of sustainability and rehabilitation in rapidly growing urban spaces.

Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning: Creating Smart Cities addresses the ecological, technological, and social challenges faced in the smart urban planning and design of settlements when using eco-technologies – from sustainable land use to transportation, and from green areas to municipal applications – with a focus on resilience. Containing research from leading international experts, this book provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends, and technologies within the planning field.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Adapting Cities to Ecological and Economic Challenges
Advanced environmental technologies
Eco-Municipalities
Energy Efficient Design
Geographic Information Systems
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Land-Use Sustainability
Smart Cities
Smart information and communication technologies
Sustainable Transportation
Sustainable Urbanism
Urban and Transport Planning
Urban Resilience
Zero Energy Buildings (ZEB)

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This book represents a timely contribution to researchers, people in spatial sciences, students, and decision makers, containing a deep and broad discussion of eco-technologies and their potential contribution to sustainable urban planning, which is an area of rapidly growing importance. It not only provides answers, but also stimulates new questions and areas for study in sustainable urban planning, smart & green cities, and technical development.

– Ozge Yalciner Ercoskun, Gazi University, Turkey

Ozge Yalciner Ercoskun is a Research Assistant in the City and Regional Planning Department of the Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey. She graduated from the City and Regional Planning Department of the Istanbul Technical University in 1998. She completed her Master’s studies in the Geodetic and Geographic Information Technologies Department of the METU in 2002. She got her Ph.D. degree from the City and Regional Planning Department of the Gazi University in 2007. She has attended several national and international congresses; summer schools and workshops related to ecological urban planning and geographic information systems. She has written more than 40 papers on sustainable urban design and ecological and smart urban planning, geographic information systems, and information technologies. She worked as a researcher in many national and institutional projects. She has awards about sustainability, urban growth, and sustainable tourism.

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