1.

Ecopolis: Architecture and Cities for a Changing Climate

Author: Paul F. Downton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 9 Dec 2008

About the author:

Paul F Downton is a sustainable city theorist and activist,
ecological architect, urbanist and professional writer on
architecture, ecocities, environment and the arts

He is a graduate from the University of Wales and acquired his

doctorate in environmental studies from University of
Adelaide. He has been Principal Architect and Director of
Ecopolis Architects in Adelaide since 1990, specialising
exclusively in ecological architecture and bio-urban design.
He's been teaching architecture for over 25 years

About the book:

According to the selection Green Roofs and Walls:
Architecture, Habitat and Food from the book entitled:
Ecopolis: Architecture and Cities for the Changing Climate,the
integration of vegetation with built form can deliver many
benefits, particularly in dense urban environments.
Ecologically viable human settlement needs to achieve high,
rather than low levels of density and must simultaneously
contain and be integrated with substantial and effective
vegetated landscapes. Instead of trees and decorative
plantings in plazas, set away from buildings, vegetated cover
needs to be close enough to buildings to generate
microclimates that affect the buildings and their internal and
external spaces and should also be part of the building
envelopes.

The reported benefits of rooftop greening includes:

improvements in human comfort levels and general air
quality;
reduction in greenhouse emissions;
energy savings in heating and cooling through roof
insulation;
rooftop capture and productive use of stormwater;
increased habitat for native plants and birds;
job opportunities in plant production, design and
construction;
opportunities for urban food production, and
access to private outdoor open space at home or at work

Other established benefits of green roofs include:

longer roof lifespan;
improved sound insulation;
reduced heating and cooling requirements;
reduced stormwater run-off;
trapping of gaseous and particulant pollutants;
alleviation of urban heat islands;
increased biodiversity

There would seem to be great potential for food production on

green roofs. The heat island effect is reduced by green roofs.
Green roofs and walls can cool the local climate around a
building in a city by between 3.6 and 11.3C and the hotter
the climate, the greater the cooling effect. By lowering
ambient roof temperatures, green roofs enable solar panels
mounted over them to operate more efficiently, with energy
outputs up to 15% more than from panels on asphalt or gravel
covered roofs. A green roof movement has begun to gather
momentum all around the world.

2. Social Science and Medicine journal

Author: Dr. Jill Litt, Dr. Sarah Schmiege, James Hale
Publisher: Elsevier 2011

About the Authors:

Dr. Jill Litt
Associate Professor, Environmental Health, Colorado School of
Public Health Denver, Colorado, USA
Dr. Litt is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health at
the Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH) and the
Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado
at Boulder. Dr. Litt received her PhD in environmental health
and public policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Public
Health. She has experience in the area of urban environmental
health working over the past decade in the neighborhoods of
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Denver on a variety of
issues related to the built environment and health including
urban brownfields cleanup and redevelopment, lead
poisoning, residential demolition, environmental justice,
chemical risk assessment, and most recently, housing,
community gardens and local food systems.

Dr. Sarah Schmiege

Assistant Professor, Nursing and Biostatistics, University of
Colorado School of Nursing and Colorado School of Public
Health
USA

James Hale
Development Director, Sprout City Farms
USA

About the book:

the researchers found that gardens have distinct holistic
qualities that can physically and socially connect gardeners to
the world in ways that encourage healthy lifestyles. These
qualities arise out of ecologically rich aesthetic relationships
that are generated and supported by community gardeners
participation in gardening. When they bridge their
understanding of urban food environments with health
through an ecological approach to public health, aesthetic
connections to the local and broader ecology emerge as vital
health-promoting processes.

Gardeners relate to the garden as having more pleasant

qualities than other urban landscapes. They are also able to
learn by watching and talking to one another.
It has been suggested that this direct learning from
relationships with personal role models may lead to more
effective and long-term behavior change than other less direct
ways of learning (Bandura, 1986).

Cognitively, the gardeners aesthetic experiences encourage

and support the expression of their values. For example, they
share food, trust one another, hold each other accountable,
and express a sense of beauty to passersby. These values
influence, and are mediated by, personal histories,
worldviews, and social experiences of contexts and places
that have evolved over time (Cummins et al., 2007)

3. Journal of Environmental Psychology

Author: Claire Freeman, Katharine J.M. Dickinsonb, Stefan
Porter, Yolanda van Heezik
Publisher: Elsevier June 2012.

About the author:

Claire Freeman
The author obtained her PhD in Planning Programme from
University of Otago, Dunedin. Her skills and expertise include
social geography, planning, and human geography. She is
currently teaching in the Geography Department in her Alma
Mater in New Zealand.
Katharine J.M. Dickinsonb
The author obtained her degree in University of Otago,
Dunedin New Zealand. She is in the Botany Department in the
University.

Stefan Porter,
The author obtained her degree in University of Otago,
Dunedin New Zealand. He is currently teaching in the
Geography Department In University of Otago.

Yolanda van Heezik

The author obtained her degree in University of Otago,
Dunedin New Zealand.She is currently teaching in the Zoology
Department in the University of Otago.

About the Journal:

According to the article My garden is an expression of me:
Exploring householders relationships with their gardens from
the Journal of Environmental Psychology, gardens matter, they
constitute substantial proportions of the urban fabric, provide
opportunities for supporting and interacting with nature and
provide a range of social and health benefits. Nature heals is
one of the oldest therapeutic dicta, wrote Theodore Roszak in
1996. In his writing, he was attempting to draw psychiatrists
attention to the need to recognise that access to nature can
be an important factor when addressing the range and growth
of psychological ills in western society. The restorative and
health benefits of nature are well established (De Vries,
Verheij, Groenewegen, & Spreeuwenberg, 2003; Ivarsson &
Hagerhall, 2008;
Kaplan, 1995; Kjellgren & Buhrkall, 2010; Nielsen & Hansen,
2007). In todays urban society, opportunities for contact with
nature can be especially important, (Davies et al., 2009) and
gardens offer such opportunities.

4. Technology Strategies for the Hospitality Industry

Author: Peter D. Nyheim
Publisher: Boston : Prentice Hall, c2012.

About the author:

Peter Nyheim is a Senior Instructor of Technology in
The School of Hospitality Management at the
Pennsylvania State University.

About the book:

Adding to the previous book review, technology
should be serving, supporting and enabling the
business (Peter Nyheim, 2012). Hotels and resorts,
especially large ones, are extremely complex
business. To run such complex business requires a
strong reliance on the tools used to manage it
including IT applications, materials used on the
project, installation of water systems, etc. the
number of systems and their heterogeneity increase
the complexity of a hotel or resort business. The way
we provide heating and cooling systems and even
the means we choose to decorate the interior of a
structure, we influence not only the aesthetics of the
building, but also their effectiveness to providing
shelter and comfort. This book will help the
researcher to think innovative designs that would
compete with the global innovations in todays time.
5. Ideological, social and cultural aspects of events
Author: Omar Moufakkir
Publisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire; Boston, MA: CABI,
[2015]

About the Author:

Omar Moufakkir did his primary and secondary
education in Casa-Blanca, undergraduate studies in
France and graduate studies in the Netherlands. He
obtained his PhD from Michigan State University,
USA, in Park, Recreation and Tourism Resources.

About the book:

This book focuses on the events in the modern world.
The presentation of people, places, pasts and
presents thus making of societies through events: on
ideology, power and consent.

Also talks about the marketing considerations during

events and festivals that has an impact on youth
culture and regenerating the image of a particular
place. Discusses the core of the hotel and the entire
resort facility, it also shows the management and
departmental breakdown of a resort hotel, as well as
theyre jobs and functions. It also listed the special
problems that a resort hotel could face.

This will help the researcher to imagine a sustainable

future through artistic events, it will be based on the
social and cultural aspect of a particular place in
order to predict the design. Provides the concepts of
environmentally-friendly architecture.