This book represents a compilation of research in sustainable architecture and planning. Its main focus is offering strategies and solutions that help reducing of the negative impacts of buildings on the environment and emphasizing the suitable management of available resources. By tackling the topic of sustainability from a historical perspective and also as a vision for the future, the book in hands provides new horizons for engineers, urban planners and environmentalists interested in the optimization of resources, space development, and the ecosystem as a whole to address the complex unresolved problems our cities are facing. This book is a culmination of selected research papers from IEREK¿s sixth edition of the International Conference on Urban Planning & Architectural Design for Sustainable Development (UPADSD) held online in collaboration with the University of Florence, Italy (2021) and the first edition of the International Conference on Circular Economy for Sustainable Development (CESD) held online in collaboration with the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (2021).

Presents recent researches on growing challenges in urban planning and architectural design

Towards adaptive planning of urban spaces in the context of a new agile urbanism.- A Study of Urban Size Control in the Japanese Understanding of Garden Cities in the Early 1900s.- Energy Efficiency and Building's Envelope: An Integrated Approach to High-Performance Architecture.- Mapping Social Cohesion and Identity in Intercultural Public Spaces: The Case of Germantown.- The Power of Long-Term Residents in Consensus Building for Reconstruction of the Housing Complex area: Case study on Tama City, Tokyo.- Urban regeneration through Climate Adaptive Design for the Mediterranean area.- Understanding Place Attachment Process Through Instagram Narratives and Imagery of Historic Urban Places.- Future Study of Regional Spatial Structure in Iran (Horizon 2040).- Istanbul: The Ecology, Nature and Disasters Designing Future Cities With Innovative Housing Projects.- City-effect: new centralities in post-pandemic regional metropolis Pescara-Chieti.- Compactness as a Condition, Compaction as an Ambition - Potentials and Pitfalls of an Interdisciplinary Global Debate on the Compact City.