Routledge Handbook on Greening High-density Cities : Climate, Society and Health

This new handbook provides a platform to bring together multidisciplinary researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and people’s health. Written by leading scholars and experts, the chapters aim to summarize the “state-of-the-art” and produce a reference book for policymakers, practitioners, academics, and researchers to study, design, and build high-density cities by integrating green spaces. The topics covered in the book include (but are not limited to) Urban Heat Island, Green Space and Carbon Sequestration, Green Space and Social Equity, Green Space and Public Health, Biophilic Cities, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Farms, Urban Farming Technologies, Nature and Biodiversity, Nature and Health, Biophilic Design, Green Infrastructure, Urban Revitalization, Post-Covid Cities, Smart and Resilient Cities, Tall Buildings, and Sustainable Vertical Cities.

Peng Du is an assistant professor and director of the Master of Urban Design – Future Cities Program at the College of Architecture and Built Environment in Thomas Jefferson University and a Research Fellow of Jefferson Institute of Smart and Healthy Cities. He also serves as the Asia Regional Director of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).

Kheir Al-Kodmany is an expert in vertical urbanism, sustainable design, geographic information systems (GIS), visualization systems, public participation, and crowd management. He is a professor of Urban Planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and previously worked for the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM).

Mir M. Ali is professor emeritus and former long-time chairman of the Structures Division in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has extensive industrial experience that includes Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Sargent & Lundy in Chicago. He is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).