Over the recent five years, the Regenerative Design concept has considerably intended to understand the factors of recovering the environmental and socioeconomic damages of the last-century global industrialization. Moreover, it has attempted to consider the evolutions within and outwith its assessing system/s. As a short communication, this paper attempts to argue the fundamentals to develop precise computerized Evolution Analysis Systems (EAS), in order to address the future identification requirements, of Regenerative Developments.
Over the last decade the concept of 'Regenerative Design and Decision-Making' has been introduced as a mind-set which considers the integration of all humans' activities and natural systems, in a broader vision than the classic concept of 'Sustainability' (mostly focused on the present). This vision identifies a greater scope, considering 'Regenerative' as a package of 'sustainable for today', 'sustainable for future', and 'heal the past'. The 'system evolutions' and uncertainty of changes, are key factor to be considered in designing of required infrastructures of sustainability for future and healing the damages to the economy, society and environment in the past. this in turn, highlights the role of 'Evolution Analysis (EA)' and 'Future Identification (FI)' in regenerative developments. A practical solution for FI is to develop EA algorithms, to be applied to identify the rates of changes over the integrating flows, through projects' time-frames in a more precise way. This in turn, saves huge rates of resources through design and implementation of extra infrastructures, to deal with future changes; as well as supporting the decision-makers to reach more realistic solutions, with higher levels of precision. This paper focuses on a real case-study,
The urban development involves more sensitive challenges for evaluation of the urban land use in respect of the framework of sustainable development. In the last three decades, the concept of sustainable development has developed into a broad area that embraces all methods and techniques in different levels of human activities and knowledge gaoling to save energy, time, financial and natural resources. Accordingly, environmental sustainability as a major aspect of the concept has concerned the environmental issues such as: climate change, global warming, waste management, sound masking, etc. The principal goal of this paper is to investigate the role of public squares in new urban developments in the historic cities from the perspective of environmental sustainability. Therefore, the paper considers some examples of the city squares in a case study (Isfahan-Iran) to highlight some problems in adaptation with the new 21 st century-style of urban development in such cities. Hence, the investigation compares the original historic squares vs. some recently developed ones. The literature review of this paper is based on the data gathered from internet, books and journals and previously published conference papers.Moreover, a qualitative research has been conducted through local observation and survey in the location of the case study (Isfahan-Iran). The results will reveal the major principles of environmental sustainability in design of new public squares in such cities. This, in turn, opens new doors to future studies about adoption of old cities with new developments regarding to the concept of environmental sustainability.
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