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2022 | Book

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Traditional Urbanism Response to Climate Change

Walled City of Jaipur

Author: Dr. Anjali Krishan Sharma

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

Book Series : Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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About this book

The book focuses on the key contemporary issue of Climate change, constructing the narrative from traditions’ of Urbanism through its Axiology and Epistemology. The book is a rich collection of seven chapters and attempts to address each of the aspects and building further for traditional Urbanism. The book further explores the synergies of traditional urbanism for Climate change through climate responsive practices with main thrust on Energy use. The said understanding is validated through the case example of walled city of Jaipur: World Heritage Site 2019. The chapters enumerate how the traditional urbanism of Jaipur was designed that evolved as climate responsive typology for the respective geography.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Traditional Urbanism
Abstract
Globalization has accelerated development however‚ with countries at varying thresholds of growth impacting environments’ across all geographies and scales. The strategies and approaches are geo-politically driven and with diversities of all kinds create challenges for sustainable development. In this purview traditional urbanism emerges as best practice; with a huge repository of contextual practices‚ design solutions and traditional passive systems‚ solutions etc.‚ embedded in the respective built morphologies. The traditional urbanism demonstrates continuing indigenous practices that are low on energy and carbon footprint.
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Chapter 2. Epistemology of Traditional Urbanism
Abstract
Each traditional urbanism is outlined by context which is geographic specific. Tracing the selected theories of various traditional urbanisms’; context emerges as the fundamental virtue. The context responded to economic activities with locally available resources thus aligned with nature. The local population executed the said symbiotic relationship with their wisdom of knowledge through practices and indigenous design solutions; nurtured over time embedded as traditional urbanism. The innate balance of local socio-economic translated in traditional urbanism proved resilient over time including the transformations over time.
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Chapter 3. Axiology of Traditional Urbanism
Abstract
Traditional urbanism is rich with values of traditions wherein the buildings are in sync with nature‚ the geographical context dovetailed with a designed socio-economic framework resulted as culturally rich urbanism. Further transformations over time contributed to urbanism; were responded sensitively for the social‚ environmental and economic framework. Each traditional urbanism nurtures traditional design solutions depicted in their built environs that addressed climate control that were disparate. With a large repository of traditional urbanism especially in Asia with time tested climate control solutions has the potential to contribute for climate responsive growth.
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Chapter 4. Engaging Traditional Urbanism for Climate Control
Abstract
Anthropocene has induced vast transformations in natural ecosystems from land to oceans‚ impacting cities. The building sector is responsible for high use of energy. Traditional urbanism‚ a global resource‚ demonstrates climate responsive design principles‚ climate control practices and passive systems that can help reduce energy use. The global norms and baselines of thermal comfort vary from the traditional standards as they are contextual. The thrust of the chapter explores the gap for energy use between the norms and ground reality with the DNA of the local population and the relevance of the global thresholds that are universally applied irrespective of geographies.
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Chapter 5. Synergies Between Traditional Urbanism and Climate Responsive Design
Abstract
Climate change has compelled the world to relook at how we build‚ how we need to live. Climate responsive approach needs to be integral with mainstream developments for climate control‚ climate adaptable‚ and climate resilience. There is a need to relook at traditional urbanism beyond its cultural heritage and historic connotation and recognise them for indigenous design solutions that are climate responsive and are low on carbon footprint. The strength of synergy between Traditional urbanism and climate change has demonstrated through all aspects of spatial planning and is a ready reference that can pave the path for sustainable future.
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Chapter 6. Designing Traditional Urbanism of Jaipur
Abstract
Jaipur acclaimed the World heritage status in 2019 is among the large repository of traditional urbanism’. Jaipur has thrived for almost three centuries and continuing. The strength of the walled city lies in a well-structured deliberate design approach: dream of a king to build in his lifetime a city in his life; wherein a socio-economic framework was institutionalised. The geo-political framework facilitated the said population to align with the locally available natural resources for economic activities and construction of city. The city was built during the turbulent political times with migrant population shaped up with rich architectural heritage and distinct identity of Jaipur.
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Chapter 7. Climate Responsive Traditional Urbanism of Jaipur
Abstract
Traditional urbanism of Jaipur was designed with concept derived from ancient Indian texts on architecture and planning principles that were specific for geographical context. The traditional urbanism of Jaipur embedded the traditional lifestyles; space syntax and traditional praxis that responded to climate. The climate control design solutions being indigenous thus were low on carbon footprint and strongly embedded in the built morphology. The practices and measures spanned from planning of the city to design of chowkris’ (neighbourhoods) to design and detailing of the all building typologies addressed through design‚ detailing‚ and selection of build material‚ construction technologies etc.
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Metadata
Title
Traditional Urbanism Response to Climate Change
Author
Dr. Anjali Krishan Sharma
Copyright Year
2022
Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
Electronic ISBN
978-981-19-4089-7
Print ISBN
978-981-19-4088-0
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4089-7