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  Contents
 
Section 1 Strategy and development
  Global perspectives in sustainable urban environments; Toward sustainable cities: priorities in economics, ecology and education; A comparative tale of two cities in search of sustainability: London and Seattle; Sustainable urban design paradigm: twenty five simple things to do to make an urban neighborhood sustainable; Towards more sustainable cities: the Urban Management and Sustainable Development Project - in Latin America and the Caribbean; Ecopolis - search for sustainable cities in Russia; The role of technologies of the information and the communication in the sustainable planning; Eco-tech cities: Smart metabolism for a green urbanism; Property tax based revenue collection GIS in the developing cities - a new approach for sustainable urban development; The spirituality of brownfields redevelopment; Self-organization as a resource for a sustainable city planning
 
Section 2 Planning, development and management
  Integrated water management as a tool for sustainable urban regeneration; Methodology based on qualitative reasoning: measuring the evolution level of sustainability in a city; Reconfiguring urban topography - new paradigms for older cities; Peri-urban areas of South African cities: innovative technologies for sustainability; Design for sustainability in the Hill Road Corridor precinct, Millenium Parklands, Homebush Bay, Sydney, Australia; A proposal for the constitution of a river park in Volla (Naples, Italy); Intra-metropolitan migration and the expansion of spontaneous settlements on the Tehran Metropolitan Fringe; Measuring sustainability at the communal level; Patterns of inner-city migration in Ankara; Composing indicators in a multi-layered perspective: toward a hermeneutics of local sustainability; Design criteria for new settlements through an interdisciplinary approach; Row houses in Taiwan - a study of sustainable dwelling usage and size under environmental crisis; Sustainable Army installations; New housing schemes: urbanisation that incorporates nature; Solar City Gelsenkirchen: From thousand fires to thousand suns; The sustainable development and tourism; A participative strategic planning approach for the local development

 
Section 3 Restructuring and renewal
  Sustainability in three dimensions - the importance of improving the use of space and life span beside technological efficiency; The green zones, main factor of urban regeneration and of city sustainability; The operational capacities of evaluation in urban regeneration policies: some issues from Portugal; Participatory development and the sustainable city: community forestry in Detroit
 
Section 4 Cultural heritage and architectural issues
  The sensitive relief and urban planning: a cultural approach to the sustainable city construction; Scotland’s built heritage; tourism and income generation; Urban regeneration and the sustainability of colonial built heritage: a case study of Macau, China; Cultural heritage and urban sustainability; a case study from Central Anatolia; The comprehensive development plan for the city of Luxor; Sustainable preservation of historical urban areas through the improvement of colour image; Designing public space for sustainability: lessons from historical perspectives; Sustainable use of recycled materials in building construction; Shrinking history; Limitations to community involvement in rehabilitation of historic areas; Where’s the air conditioning switch?: Identifying problems for sustaining local architectural traditions in the contemporary United Arab Emirates

 
Section 5 Land use and management
  Examples of landscape indicators for assessing environmental conditions and problems in urban and suburban areas; Proposal for to Natural Capital Bank as a managing tool for urban management sustainability; Defining the pattern of the sustainable urban region; A comparative study on urban land use planning system between China and Taiwan; The role of very high resolution image data and GIS as planning support tools - Case Studies of Belgrade and Shanghai; Urban densification - a sustainable urban policy?; Multiple use of space in railway station areas
 
Section 6 Environmental management
  Local Agenda 21 role of Region of Campania cities in environmental sustainability policy; The UNSW Ecoliving Program - integration of teaching, research and community outreach for urban sustainability; The eco-costs/value-ratio; Mathematical modelling of urban floods with solid material embodiment representing flow obstruction; A study of the relationship between people’s lives and the tidal flats in Sanban-ze: a survey of local inhabitants; Making the most of Adelaide’s water; Geochemical processes in the unsaturated zone below the city of Tel Aviv (Israel) during the pre-industrial stage of its development; Air quality evaluation as an ecological indicator of regional diagnosis; Gas production from three-lift landfill lysimeter in tropical country; Daily Chloride contamination of Lake Ontario by Etobicoke Creek
 
Section 7 The community and the city
  Towards a sustainable city: roles, behaviour and attitudes of citizens, local organisations and the authorities; Toward an architecture of engagement; Re-building the social capital: lessons from the City of Edinburgh; Participatory budgeting and e-democracy in Brazil: new strategies, new challenges in the city management; The Third World cities’ need for information; Perennial old-city paradigms; Designing the life in urban squares: An academic workshop as a tool for improving the quality of life in cities; Urban sustainability in the tradition of Islam; Brazilian NGOs and the urban management: the role and the impacts of civil society in the sustainable cities; Popular restaurants: Brazilian urban experience on fighting against hunger and strengthening civil rights; Sustainable city: blending nature with business
 
Section 8 Public safety and security
 

Road safety audit effectiveness at urban junctions; Sustainable development in the prevention of sexual delinquency - public health and security
 
Section 9 Traffic and transportation
  Targets and performance indicators for sustainable urban transport: a review of current practice in Sydney, Australia; Madrid Public Transport Authority: a bet on a future viable urban environment;
Analysis of the potential demand of transport in the urban area of Milan; New high-speed rail lines and small cities: locating the station; Transport technology with a use of the super-light rail vehicles; The role of parking policy in the long process to sustainable mobility; TECAPSY - Trans European car-pooling and parking systems; Estimating the inconveniences of bus transfers: An SP study and its policy implications for improving mass transit in a city; The automatic vehicles access control system of the historical centre of Rome; Safe ways to school
 
Section 10 Transport environment and integration
 

Neural geo-spatial model for urban and transportation sustainability - system’s diagnosis; Assessing the potential of new artifacts for sustainable mobility systems: the Mitka case; Design of an urban solid waste transport system; A semi-parametric analysis on carbon monoxide distribution
 
Section 11 Agriculture and the city
 

Renewed link between urban and rural areas; Linking urban agriculture with urban management: a challenge for policy makers and planners; Agriculture as an urban infrastructure: a new social contract; Urban agriculture between allotment and market gardening: contributions to the sustainability of African and Asian cities; Urban agriculture, an environmentally sustainable land use - Case studies from Europe, Latin America and Africa; Creating livable cities: the need for urban agriculture; Food security in cities - a new challenge to development
 
Section 12 Energy resources
 

The Scottish Fuel Cell Consortium - A review of the first year of operation; Mapping the potential of photovoltaic systems in urban areas of Slovakia; Considering Photovoltaic Technology as a part of the building material; Comparison between conventional and PV integrated curtain wall systems