Built environment design, management and applications (Nova Science Publishers, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The rhetoric and reality of culture-led urban regeneration -- a comparison of Beijing and Shanghai, China / Jun Wang and Shaojun Li -- Rural gentrification and the built environment: exploring the connections / Martin Phillips -- The mathematics of style in the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: a computational, fractal analysis of formal complexity in fifteen domestic designs / Michael J. Ostwald and Josephine Vaughan -- The use of the 3D laser scanner in the built environment / Yusuf Arayici -- Anthropocentric biocybernetic approaches to architectural analysis: new methods for investigating the built environment / Stephan K. Chalup and Michael J. Ostawld -- Creating sustainable habitats for the urban poor: redesigning slums into condominium high rises in Colombo / Ranjith Dayaratne -- Uncomfortable, adjustable tradition: lessons for contemporary building / Helen Wilkins -- A secondary mortgage market in Ghana: antidote or poison? / Franklin Obeng-Odoom -- Far, far away -- trip distances and mode choice in the context of residential self-selection and the built environment / Joachim Scheiner -- On the empirics of housing illegality: a case study in Hong Kong / Yung Yay, Daniel Chi Wing Ho and Kwong Wing Chau -- Understanding the impact of the environment on physical activity / Katherine S. Hall -- Potential reuse of contaminated soils in the built environment / M. Pritchard and D. Allen -- Intergenerational housing as new vector of social cohesion / Nicolas Bernard -- Augmented reality: a novel approach to interfacing building information modelling server for design collaboration / Ning Gu and Xianguy Wang -- Mayors in Ghana: 'public' servants or agents of captial? / Franklin Obeng-Odoom -- Gentrification in globalization: forces to be explored in Chnese cities / Jun Wang