文档介绍：cSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration
Volume 4
Series Editor: Shinichiro Ohgaki, Tokyo, Japan
cSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration
By the process of urban development in the 20th century, characterized by suburban expansion
and urban redevelopment, many huge and plexes of urban structures have been
erected in developed countries. However, with conventional technologies focused on the construc-
tion of structures, it has e difficult to keep urban spaces adaptable to environmental
constraints and economic, social and cultural changes. In other words, it has e difficult for
conventional technologies to meet social demands for the upgrading of social capital in a sustain-
able manner and for the regeneration of attractive urban space that is not only safe and highly
efficient but also conscious of historical, cultural and local identities to guarantee a high quality of
life for all. Therefore, what is needed now is the creation of a new discipline that is able to an-
ize the existing social capital and the technologies to implement it.
For this purpose, there is a need to go beyond the boundaries of conventional technologies of
construction and structural design and to integrate the following technologies:
(1) Technology concerned with environmental and risk management
(2) Technology of conservation and regeneration with due consideration to the local character-
istics of existing structures including historical and cultural resources
(3) Technologies munication, consensus building, plan making and space management
to coordinate and integrate the individual activities initiated by various actors of society
Up to now, architecture, civil engineering, and urban engineering in their respective fields have,
while dealing with different time-space scales and structures, accumulated cutting-edge knowledge
and contributed to the formation of favorable urban spaces. In the past, when emphasis was