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  1. Glenn Murcutt is recognised as one of the most influential architects of the last few decades. His design philosophy, environmental awareness and in-depth understanding of the Australian context and vernacular...

    Authors: Mauricio Lecaro, Benson Lau, Lucelia Rodrigues and Dik Jarman
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2017 3:3
  2. Building energy evaluation tools available today are only able to effectively analyse individual buildings and usually either they require a high amount of input data or they are too imprecise in energy predic...

    Authors: Dirk Monien, Aneta Strzalka, Athanasios Koukofikis, Volker Coors and Ursula Eicker
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2017 3:2
  3. This study presents a mathematical optimization model for planning topology and capacity of a district cooling network. The model relies on a mixed-integer linear programming formulation to find the most econo...

    Authors: Johannes Dorfner, Patrick Krystallas, Magdalena Durst and Tobias Massier
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2017 3:1
  4. Urban growth management has become a common term to circumscribe strategies and tools to regulate urban land use in metropolitan areas. It is particularly used to counteract negative impacts of urban sprawl bu...

    Authors: Christian Fertner, Gertrud Jørgensen, Thomas Alexander Sick Nielsen and Kjell Svenne Bernhard Nilsson
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2016 2:9
  5. Urban and building energy simulation models are usually driven by typical meteorological year (TMY) weather data often in a TMY2 or EPW format. However, the locations where these historical datasets were colle...

    Authors: Leonidas Bourikas, Patrick A. B. James, AbuBakr S. Bahaj, Mark F. Jentsch, Tianfeng Shen, David H. C. Chow and Jo Darkwa
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2016 2:7
  6. Treated sullage water could be the answer to urban water scarcity. In this study, urban sullage water was subjected to various tests to determine a number of physiochemical parameters, heavy metal content and ...

    Authors: Tajuddin Sikder, Zakir Hossain, Priangka Bhattacharya Pingki, Jussi Dayna Biswas, Mostafizur Rahman, Shakhaoat Hossain, Takeshi Saito and Masaaki Kurasaki
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2016 2:5
  7. This paper endeavours to understand the climate change phenomenon and identify measures taken to contain it. It discusses global warming causes and consequences and assesses effectiveness of the United Nations...

    Authors: Sharaf Eldin Ibrahim Bannaga
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2016 2:4
  8. In this paper we assess energy conservation and analyse energy efficiency in various sectors in Yemen. Accordingly, the paper introduces Yemen energy profile, energy resources and performs calculations of a nu...

    Authors: Ali M. Al-Ashwal
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2016 2:3
  9. Massive growth is threatening the sustainability of cities and the quality of city life. Mass urbanisation can lead to social instability, undermining the capacity of cities to be environmentally sustainable a...

    Authors: Saffa Riffat, Richard Powell and Devrim Aydin
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2016 2:1
  10. India is known to emit large amounts of black carbon (BC) particles, and the existing estimates of the BC emission from the transport sector in the country widely range from 72 ~ 456 Gg/year (for the 2000’s). ...

    Authors: Ashish Sharma and Chul E. Chung
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2015 1:13
  11. This study explored the effect on photocatalytic degradation in aqueous solution with high- concentration ammonia where immobilized TiO2 on glass beads was employed as the photocatalyst. TiO2 film was prepared vi...

    Authors: Xue Gong, Haifeng Wang, Chun Yang, Quan Li, Xiangping Chen and Jin Hu
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2015 1:12
  12. This article is woven to satisfy interlinked objectives of assessing the determinants for successful greening of the city and comparing and contrasting cities in their greening. A cross-sectional review of lit...

    Authors: Innocent Chirisa, Simbarashe O Dirwai and Abraham Matamanda
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2015 1:11
  13. Tuned mass dampers (TMD) have been used for the reduction of building responses to wind loading in many high-rise buildings. An innovative and resilient base-isolated building with a large mass-ratio TMD is in...

    Authors: Takuya Hashimoto, Kohei Fujita, Masaaki Tsuji and Izuru Takewaki
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2015 1:9
  14. These days urban design of open spaces is strongly related to bioclimatic techniques and practices. It is here presented the procedure of a bioclimatic study by the use of simulation tools. The area of an open...

    Authors: Stamatis Zoras, Argyro Dimoudi, Vasilis Evagelopoulos, Spyros Lyssoudis, Sofia Dimoudi, Anna-Maria Tamiolaki, Vasilis Stathis, Apostolos Polyzakis and Euterpi Deligiorgi
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2015 1:6
  15. Solar panel conversion efficiency, typically in the twenty percent range, is reduced by dust, grime, pollen, and other particulates that accumulate on the solar panel. Cleaning dirty panels to maintain peak ef...

    Authors: Jin Hu, Nicolas Bodard, Osmann Sari and Saffa Riffat
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2015 1:8
  16. As one of the most energy-, emission- and pollution-intensive industries, iron and steel production is responsible for significant emissions of greenhouse gas (GHG) and air pollutants. Although many energy-eff...

    Authors: Ding Ma, Wenying Chen and Tengfang Xu
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2015 1:7
  17. The excellent thermal insulation performance of vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) make them widely applied in energy conservation fields, especially in buildings engineering. This research work proposes a simple...

    Authors: Ankang Kan, Liyun Kang, Chong Wang and Dan Cao
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2015 1:4
  18. The planned energy-efficient retrofitting of a residential building in Bologna, North-Center Italy is presented. The building is a detached house with an unheated basement, three floors with 2 apartments each,...

    Authors: Enzo Zanchini, Claudia Naldi, Stefano Lazzari and Gian Luca Morini
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2015 1:3
  19. Thermal energy storage systems are gaining attention in recent years as they are now seen as one of the most promising solutions in order to increase utilisation of solar energy and reduce greenhouse gas emiss...

    Authors: Devrim Aydin, Sean P Casey and Saffa Riffat
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2015 1:2
  20. The building sector accounts for around 40-50 % of the energy consumed in developing countries and contribute over 30 % of CO2 emissions. In Cameroon, the electricity access is less than 5 % in rural areas agains...

    Authors: Martial Aloys Ekoe a Akata, Donatien Njomo and Blaise Mempouo
    Citation: Future Cities and Environment 2015 1:1