Planning for sustainable cities is a complex process addressing the fundamental areas of economic, environmental and socially-equitable sustainability. This chapter focuses on the environmental area, with theories, models, and applications illustrating possible spatial configurations of a green infrastructure to support ecological and physical processes in the built environment including: hydro...

Information about green spaces available in a city is essential for urban planning. Urban green areas are generally assessed through environmental indicators that reflect the city’s quality of life and urban comfort. A methodology based on 3D measure and analysis of green urban areas at the city scale is presented. Two products are proposed: (1) measuring current vegetation cover at ground leve...

Green infrastructure is a general term referring to the management of landscapes in ways that generate human and ecosystem benefits. Many municipalities have begun to utilize green infrastructure in efforts to meet stormwater management goals. This study examines challenges to integrating gray and green infrastructure for stormwater management, informed by interviews with practitioners in Cleve...

The use of green roofs is gaining increased recognition in many countries as a solution that can be used to improve environmental quality and reduce runoff quantity. To achieve these goals, pilot-scale green roof assemblies have been constructed and operated in an urban setting. From a stormwater management perspective, green roofs are 42.8-60.8% effective in reducing runoff for 200 mm soil dep...

Green computing is an effective study in which disposing, recycling and manufacturing of computers and electronic devices is taken into consideration. The goal of green computing is to lower down the use of hazardous materials, maximize energy efficiency and popularize biodegradability or recyclability of out-dated products and factory waste. In this paper we discuss the wastage of energy by co...

Cloud computing is emerging as a new paradigm of large-scale distributed computing. Cloud computing provides customers/users scalability, flexibility for their applications by providing collection of interconnected and virtualized servers. But as the requirement for cloud increases, so increase the consumption of huge amounts of electrical energy, contributing to high operational costs Green Ho...