Landscape architecture as a perspective of energy and recourses conservation
The paper presents the effect of urban planted area in conserving the energy consumption and recourses conservation. An analytical study reviews the local urban landscape features prevailed during the ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman culture, and flourished in Islamic civilization; also, the pap...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/34910/ http://eprints.usm.my/34910/1/HBP28.pdf |
| Summary: | The paper presents the effect of urban planted area in conserving the
energy consumption and recourses conservation. An analytical study reviews the
local urban landscape features prevailed during the ancient Egyptian, Greek and
Roman culture, and flourished in Islamic civilization; also, the paper examines the
key features of modern urban landscape design practices which are compatible
with climate, social, economic and environmental issues, Case studies from hot
desert regions such as Egypt, Arizona and Nakab that revives the Islamic theories
for urban landscape, resources conservation and sustainability. Moreover, the
paper also reviews the field studies to measure the effect of green areas in
modifying the urban climate, in order to deduce the criteria of distribution of green
areas through housing and public projects in respect of energy and recourse
conservation. |
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