Meet the editors

Amjad Almusaed Phd was born on January 15, 1967. He holds a PhD degree in Architecture (Environmental Design) from Ion Mincu University, Bucharest, Romania. He completed postdoctoral research in 2004 on sustainable and bioclimatic houses, from the School of Architecture in Aarhus, Denmark. His research expertise is sustainability in architecture and urban planning and design. He has carried out a great deal of research and

technical survey work and has performed several studies in the above-mentioned areas. He has edited many international books and is an active member of many worldwide architectural associations. He has published more than 170 international academic works (papers, research, books, and book chapters) in different languages.

Asaad Almssad has more than 30 years of experience in the industry as well as teaching and research, inter alia, Umeå University, Karlstad University and both European and non-European institutions. His research focuses on building structures, materials, sustainable building, and energy efficiency in building systems. His viewpoint of the building and its components is that the orientation of new researchers tends to move the human ac-

tions under the building roof toward energy efficiency and healthy living spaces. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 research papers and many books. Now, he is employed as a docent at Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.

Dr. Linh Truong-Hong is a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Department of Geoscience & Remote Sensing, Delft University of Technology. He obtained his BEng. and MEng. from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and a PhD degree from the University College Dublin. He has been a researcher at Dublin Institute of Technology (2011-2013) and University College Dublin (2013-2018). His research interests are to develop integrated

frameworks to deploy LiDAR and photogrammetry in 3D objection reconstruction and change detection for infrastructure inspection and assessment, construction management, and a smart city. Dr. Truong-Hong has published more than 50 scientific papers and filed 2 patents. His research activity has been recognized through 4 peer-reviewed international awards. His research projects have been funded by Ireland and the European Research Council.

Contents

**Section 1**

Techniques

*by Le Anh Tu*

**Preface XIII**

Theories of Sustainable Urban Planning and Design **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 33**

**Chapter 3 53**

**Chapter 4 69**

**Chapter 5 87**

**Chapter 6 105**

**Chapter 7 127**

City Phenomenon between Urban Structure and Composition

Future Planning of Global South Cities with Inclusive Informal

*by Vincent Aghaegbunam Onodugo and Nkeiru Hope Ezeadichie*

Improving Feature Map Quality of SOM Based on Adjusting

*by José Gerardo Carrillo-González, Jacobo Sandoval-Gutiérrez* 

Procedure to Prepare and Model Speed Data Considering the Traffic

*by Jana Moravcová, Jiri Pecenka, Denisa Pekna, Vendula Moravcova* 

*by Sara Shirowzhan, John Trinder and Paul Osmond*

Infrastructure, as Part of a Cyber-Physical System

The Role of Public Spaces in Small Municipality

*by Csaba Csiszár, Dávid Földes and Yinying He*

New Metrics for Spatial and Temporal 3D Urban Form Sustainability Assessment Using Time Series Lidar Point Clouds and Advanced GIS

*by Amjad Almusaed and Asaad Almssad*

Economic Growth in Perspective

Reshaped Urban Mobility

the Neighborhood Function

*and Francisco Pérez-Martínez*

*and Nikola Novakova*
