Urban Greenhouse and Sustainable Design
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 March 2023) | Viewed by 7664
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sustainability; urbanism; urban agriculture; urban design/planning; aesthetics; architectural morphogenesis; architectural sustainable design; energy; heat transfer; sustainable development; constructal and applied thermodynamics; building physics, innovative building envelopes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to comprise high-level interdisciplinary research papers regarding the innovative sustainable design of urban greenhouses. There is widespread acceptance that urbanization occurs rapidly, and because of unbalanced development and aberrant and impoverished urban planning, our contemporary cities are facing major challenges. Recently, urban agriculture has been revealed to be an interesting strategy to face contemporary cities’ food problem. Furthermore, urban agriculture seems to also be an efficient strategy to regenerate the economy of societies in crisis (financial and social, e.g., the city of Detroit). Thence, this Special Issue should focus upon the major challenge that is not explicitly investigated yet: how to create innovative sustainable designs to contain urban agricultural programs integrated into urban tissues in a way that promotes sustainability and positively affects–regulates urban microclimates.
The journal Sustainability is hosting a Special Issue on “Urban Greenhouse and Sustainable Design”. Studies are welcome that formulate innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to design, study (experimentally and/or numerically), and optimize the sustainable impact of multiscale urban greenhouses. How multiscale design decisions (form, envelope, components) should be made concerning urban green spaces and urban microclimates is the core subject of this Special Issue.
Contributions on the following themes are of particular interest, though other relevant topics will also be considered:
- Evidence on how programmatic decisions should affect the form of urban greenhouses;
- Components for efficient urban greenhouse design;
- Novel methods for assessment and long-term evaluation of urban greenhouses’ energy impact;
- Nearly zero energy urban greenhouses;
- Intersectoral scientific approaches to urban greenhouse design and management;
- Demonstrated benefits of urban greenhouses in the attenuation of climate change and urban heat;
- Development of decision-making strategies or software for optimal urban greenhouse design, fabrication, and maintenance;
- Innovative building envelopes for energy-efficient urban greenhouse constructions;
- Innovative architectural morphogenesis concepts for urban greenhouse design;
- Climatic studies that illustrate the impact of urban greenhouses in the urban microclimate;
- In situ energy production throughout urban greenhouse programs;
- The iconic dimension of urban greenhouse forms and their impact on the landscape/cityscape;
- The aesthetics of urban agriculture through urban greenhouse architectural formalism;
- Educational activities for urban greenhouse optimal conception.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lazaros Mavromatidis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- greenspaces
- urban agriculture
- energy production
- energy consumption
- microclimate
- constructal thermodynamics
- aesthetics
- cityscape
- climate change
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