Urban Engineering for Sustainability

Sybil Derrible

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MIT Press
19 November 2019

Urban & municipal planning; Civil engineering, surveying & building; Environmental monitoring

Series: The MIT Press

A textbook that introduces integrated, sustainable design of urban infrastructures, drawing on civil engineering, environmental engineering, urban planning, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science.

This textbook introduces urban infrastructure from an engineering perspective, with an emphasis on sustainability. Bringing together both fundamental principles and practical knowledge from civil engineering, environmental engineering, urban planning, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science, the book transcends disciplinary boundaries by viewing urban infrastructures as integrated networks.

The text devotes a chapter to each of five engineering systems-electricity, water, transportation, buildings, and solid waste-covering such topics as fundamentals, demand, management, technology, and analytical models. Other chapters present a formal definition of sustainability; discuss population forecasting techniques; offer a history of urban planning, from the Neolithic era to Kevin Lynch and Jane Jacobs; define and discuss urban metabolism and infrastructure integration, reviewing system interdependencies; and describe approaches to urban design that draw on complexity theory, algorithmic models, and machine learning. Throughout, a hypothetical city state, Civitas, is used to explain and illustrate the concepts covered. Each chapter includes working examples and problem sets. An appendix offers tables, diagrams, and conversion factors. The book can be used in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in civil engineering and as a reference for practitioners. It can also be helpful in preparation for the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) and Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) exams.

By: Sybil Derrible
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 35mm
ISBN: 9780262043441
ISBN 10: 0262043440
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 656
Publication Date: 19 November 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sybil Derrible is Associate Professor in the Civil and Materials Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he is also Director of the Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks Laboratory and Research Associate Professor in the Institute of Environmental Science and Policy.

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Sybil Derrible

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