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See more from this Session: Geobiology and Biomineralization: From the Origins of Life to the Origins of Cities
Abstract:
The framework for urban construction is based on a bottom up urban growth model that considers the interaction of households, employers, developers, and policy makers as major agents. Under different growth scenarios, the evolving and emergent infrastructure pattern of the urban area was projected. Urban construction practice was investigated in three different spatial scales: 1) macro-level metropolitan growth projection, 2) community design, and, 3) production home design, construction, and operating. Life cycle assessment approach was applied to estimate the global, regional, and local impacts of different design and construction options at each of the three scales. Environmental and economic analysis for built environment properties was analyzed as feedback mechanisms. A hedonic model was developed to estimate the implied willingness to pay for a range of environmental attributes that depend on the design and materials used in the built environment. The ultimate goal of the research is to characterizing urban systems and recognizing underlying structural variables and fundamental rules to be the urban analogues of DNA for the development of cybernetics for sustainable urban system.
See more from this Division: Overarching Sessions
See more from this Session: Geobiology and Biomineralization: From the Origins of Life to the Origins of Cities