Skip to main content
  • Book
  • © 2015

Future City Architecture for Optimal Living

  • Offers new ideas and simulations based on current or past architectural design assessments
  • Provides interesting new research outputs that will benefit further research in the area of optimal design for urban living
  • Presents the urban condition in both architectural and living-condition terms

Part of the book series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications (SOIA, volume 102)

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.

Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. If Robots Conquer Airspace: The Architecture of The Vertical City

    • Jan Willmann, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler
    Pages 1-11
  3. Smart Cities in a Smart World

    • Beniamino Murgante, Giuseppe Borruso
    Pages 13-35
  4. Understanding the Context

    • Robin Nicholson
    Pages 37-56
  5. Architectural Mithridatism?

    • Clement Blanchet
    Pages 57-79
  6. Can Dense Cities Really Be Liveable?

    • Limin Hee
    Pages 81-104
  7. The Heat Is on, Now We Must Act

    • William S. W. Lim
    Pages 105-116
  8. Holistic Approach to Shape Future Cities

    • Ricky Tsui, Shu-Wei Wu, Anita Siu
    Pages 117-140
  9. Building Resilient Cities to Climate Change

    • Matheos Santamouris, Constantinos Cartalis
    Pages 141-159
  10. Using Policy Instruments to Drive Optimal Living and Sustainable Consumption in the Built and Natural Environment

    • T. Ibn-Mohammed, A. Acquaye, R. Greenough, S. Taylor, L. Ozawa-Meida
    Pages 183-200
  11. Weather Data and Solar Orientations

    • Mojtaba Samimi
    Pages 221-240
  12. Analysis and Classification of Public Spaces Using Convex and Solid-Void Models

    • José Nuno Beirão, André Chaszar, Ljiljana ÄŒavić
    Pages 241-270

About this book

This book offers a wealth of interdisciplinary approaches to urbanization strategies in architecture centered on growing concerns about the future of cities and their impacts on essential elements of architectural optimization, livability, energy consumption and sustainability. It portrays the urban condition in architectural terms, as well as the living condition in human terms, both of which can be optimized by mathematical modeling as well as mathematical calculation and assessment.

Special features include:

• new research on the construction of future cities and smart cities

• discussions of sustainability and new technologies designed to advance ideas to future city developments

Graduate students and researchers in architecture, engineering, mathematical modeling, and building physics will be engaged by the contributions written by eminent international experts from a variety of disciplines including architecture, engineering, modeling, optimization, and related fields.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability, Singapore

    Stamatina Th. Rassia

  • Center for Applied Optimization, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

    Panos M. Pardalos

Bibliographic Information

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access