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Towards Implementation of Sustainability Concepts in Developing Countries

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  • © 2021

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Editors:
  1. Chaham Alalouch

    1. Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

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  2. Cristina Piselli

    1. Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

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  3. Francesco Cappa

    1. Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy

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  • Examines the concept of sustainability, strategies to improve its impact in developing countries
  • Covers many different applications for enhancing quality of life and the built environment in developing countries
  • Enriches readers’ understanding of key sustainability concepts in architecture and urban design

Part of the book series: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI)

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Sustainable Design Strategies at the Urban Level

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Toward Resiliency Through Sustainable Urban Formation in Baghdad

      • Zaynab Radi Abaas
      Pages 3-15

    3. An Exploration of the Effects of Urban Block Design on the Outdoor Thermal Environment in Tropical Savannah Climate: Case Study of Nyamirambo Neighborhood of Kigali

      • Elyse de la Joie Horimbere, Hong Chen, Mehdi Makvandi
      Pages 17-28

    4. Where is Wakanda? Who is T’Challa? The Sustainable African City Re-Imagined as a Livable and Lovable City

      • Amira Osman
      Pages 29-39

    5. The Relation Between Walking and Urban Form: Identifying Gaps in Egyptian Literature

      • Farah A. Sami, Omar M. Galal
      Pages 41-50

    6. Utilization of Neural Network-Based Approach in Bike Routes Optimization for Port Said Urban Road Network

      • Marwa S. El-Bany
      Pages 51-57

    7. Measuring the Prospects of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) to Identify the Potential Zones in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh

      • Md. Asaduzzaman, Sabbir Ahmed Siddique, Z. H. M. Monjur Murshed
      Pages 59-75

    8. Heritage Sites: Toward Creative Ambiance in Public Spaces Attached—Impact of Creative Ambiance on Societal Development

      • Aya Elgobashi, Yasmeen Elsemary
      Pages 77-95

    9. Understanding Challenges/Barriers and the Motivations of Farmers to Adopt Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs): A Case Study of Sumerpur Tehsil of Rajasthan, India

      • Aditi Mali
      Pages 97-112

    10. Improving Sustainability in Indian Cities Through Expansion of Edible Green Spaces: Exploring Million Plus Cities of Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad

      • Swati Kothary, Aditi Mali
      Pages 113-128

  3. Sustainable Design Strategies at the Building Level

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. Potentials of Plant’s Strategies for an Adaptive Building Envelope

      • N. Nour ElDin, A. Abdou
      Pages 131-141

    3. Pro-Environmental Behaviors in LEED and Non-LEED-Certified Workplaces: A Comparative Study

      • Mona A. Mohamed, Manal A. S. Abou El-Ela, Hala B. El Naggar
      Pages 143-153

    4. Evaluation of the Sustainable Building Materials for Economic Housing in Egypt

      • Bishoy Magdy Tawfeeq, Hossam Eldin Hassan Othman Elborombaly, Ali Kamal Ali Altwanasy
      Pages 155-164

    5. Proposed Systemic Method for Selecting Finishing Materials for Building Flooring Using Building Information Modeling (BIM)

      • Mohamed A. Alrahhal Alorabi, Khalid S. Al-Gahtani, Ibrahim A. Alhammad
      Pages 165-170

    6. Utilizing Wind-Driven Ventilation Force as a Technique in Adaptive Passive Interior Design

      • Eman Ahmed Elsayed Mahmoud AlAkaby
      Pages 171-183

    7. Reflections on the Development of Prefabricated Buildings in China from a Historical and Global Perspective

      • Zhang Junjun, Wang Haining, Zhang Hong
      Pages 185-192

    8. Toward a Sustainable Design of the Rehabilitation Centers for Addiction

      • Basma Ibrahem, Doaa Abouelmagd, Alia Amer
      Pages 193-205

    9. The Architectural Design of Outdoor Spaces in Oncology Hospitals: Toward Achieving Social Sustainability for Oncology Patients

      • Menna Allah Omar Ramadan, Doaa Abouelmagd, Alia Amer
      Pages 207-226
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About this book

This book focuses on sustainability concepts in architecture and urban design, environmental issues, and natural resources. Today it has become essential to reduce carbon emissions, protect habitats, and preserve the delicate ecosystems of our planet. Accordingly, sustainable development has to be improved by decreasing the consumption of non-renewable resources, in order to help nature replenish itself.


Further, it highlights the efforts that have been made by architects, environmentalists, engineers, students, planners and everyone in between in order to improve sustainability in various developing communities and countries.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

    Chaham Alalouch

  • Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Cristina Piselli

  • Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy

    Francesco Cappa

About the editors

Chaham Alalouch is an architect, researcher and educator with a background in urbanism. He writes and speaks on how to improve people’s quality of life through sustainable and smart built environment. He holds a Ph.D. from Heriot-Watt University (HWU), UK; and a PG Dip. in Architectural Design; and B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering from the University of Aleppo, Syria. His research was awarded the MacFarlane Prize by HWU, and the Highly Commended Award by the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, UK. In 2019, he received the Distinguished Academician Award from Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited a large number of peer-reviewed articles, technical reports, and books covering a wide range of topics, including the sustainable and smart design and construction of buildings and cities. He is involved in the Oman Eco House project and currently undertaking research in architectural pedagogy and the “livability” of eco-architecture. He is also one of the editors of the Springer book series: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. He has held invited talks and keynote speeches at international conferences in Spain and Italy. He serves as a reviewer for several respected journals, and has reviewed papers for various international conferences. He currently works at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman.


Cristina Piselli received her master’s degree in Building Engineering - Architecture from the University of Perugia, Italy, in 2014, and her Ph.D. in Energy and Sustainable Development from the University of Perugia, Italy, in 2018. She is currently a research fellow at CIRIAF - Interuniversity Research Centre on Pollution and Environment “Mauro Felli”, Department of Engineering, at the same university, where she is a member of the EAP Lab (Environmental Applied Physics Laboratory) team, investigating building energy efficiency and, specifically, dynamic analysis of building energy performance, occupant behaviour, human comfort in the built environment, urban heat island mitigation, and energy systems.


Francesco Cappa is a post-doctoral researcher at the “ReBooT - Research Centre in Business Transformation” and at the “Centre for Research in Leadership, Innovation, and Organization”, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from LUISS Guido Carli University and, during his Ph.D. studies, was a visiting researcher at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering (USA) and Pace University Seidenberg School of Computer Science (USA). His main research interests are in areas of crowd involvement, with a particular focus on innovation and sustainability issues. His papers have been published in Research Policy, Business Horizons, Computers in Human Behaviour, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Sustainability, PloS One, and Energy.



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