About this Research Topic
Energy consumption and material waste are mainly due to the population's residential needs and uses. Sustainable strategies in the residential sector need to be further investigated and implemented since more is needed rather than considering sustainability as a purely environmental aspect. The need for a home is the center of the population's daily life to address people's basics and essential activities. Society is a vibrant organism composed of individual behaviors that have completely changed the historical growth of cities and countries. Nowadays, we are facing fast transformation due to the move of population masses in search of their required residential spaces from old to new cities and vice-versa. Residential typologies of buildings are transforming quickly to address the residential sector needs that are composed not only by families as the unit of society but also by dwellings as a unit of the territory. The complexity of needs and uses in the cities' growth has to target sustainable approaches that integrate various scales of possibilities and dimensions into an interdisciplinary framework to improve the co-existence of various possible measures for analyzing and addressing sustainability in the residential sector.
Strategies and opportunities can be integrated in terms of energy consumption, materials waste, gas emission, and human and social needs into a community organization, new planning approaches, and institutional interventions. A holistic approach to research and discussion will improve the dialogue on discovering new frontiers in sustainability.
The rapid transformation of the contemporary world and recent natural disasters, together with the pandemic, the fast climate change, the growth of population, natural hazards, and worldwide diseases, have totally changed the traditional growth of cities, moving the priority to the promotion of sustainable development and innovative as an example for future communities and their residential needs. In fact, the sustainable approach is the only strategic solution that will promote the residential sector's well-being, quality of life, and growth direction. Only by considering people, communities, and their housing needs at the center of the city's growth will it be possible to plan and target a sustainable future. The goal is to place sustainable strategies capable of minimizing the materials waste and energy consumption as a top priority in the cities' growth by promoting healthy urban planning and innovative interdisciplinary framework to analyze and address the needs for population growth.
This research topic aims to collect contributions that consider any problems, opportunities, or possible aspects of sustainable housing needs in the Middle East Regions. The articles will discuss how in the past, residential housing needs have determined the growth conditions of the urban fabric and how future housing needs will guide the sustainable cities' transformation in the Middle East regions. The research topic will contribute to the ongoing dispute about the growing directions to be taken to address the populations needs for a responsible and sustainable future.
We welcome contributions covering, but not limited to, the following topics:
Residential needs and sustainability in the post-oil era in Middle east countries
Sustainable/affordable housing for low/middle-income residents
Resilience and adaptation in residential transformations
History and sustainability in residential needs
Sustainable re-sues of residential heritage
Sustainable urban growth in Middle East Regions
Lifestyle and residential transformations in fast-growing countries
Mega-events and the residential sustainable needs
'Spectacular' residential housing and sustainable lifestyle
Sustainability in construction for residential units
Sustainable materials for construction
Information for authors
The research topic welcomes original research articles, contributions and case studies to discuss the residential needs of cities targeting a sustainable growth especially in Middle Eastern Regions and discussing any possible residential strategy with sustainable approach from different points of view.
Strategies and opportunities can be integrated in terms of energy consumption, materials waste, gas emission, and human and social needs into a community organization, new planning approaches, and institutional interventions. A holistic approach to research and discussion will improve the dialogue on discovering new frontiers in sustainability.
The rapid transformation of the contemporary world and recent natural disasters, together with the pandemic, the fast climate change, the growth of population, natural hazards, and worldwide diseases, have totally changed the traditional growth of cities, moving the priority to the promotion of sustainable development and innovative as an example for future communities and their residential needs. In fact, the sustainable approach is the only strategic solution that will promote the residential sector's well-being, quality of life, and growth direction. Only by considering people, communities, and their housing needs at the center of the city's growth will it be possible to plan and target a sustainable future. The goal is to place sustainable strategies capable of minimizing the materials waste and energy consumption as a top priority in the cities' growth by promoting healthy urban planning and innovative interdisciplinary framework to analyze and address the needs for population growth.
This research topic aims to collect contributions that consider any problems, opportunities, or possible aspects of sustainable housing needs in the Middle East Regions. The articles will discuss how in the past, residential housing needs have determined the growth conditions of the urban fabric and how future housing needs will guide the sustainable cities' transformation in the Middle East regions. The research topic will contribute to the ongoing dispute about the growing directions to be taken to address the populations needs for a responsible and sustainable future.
We welcome contributions covering, but not limited to, the following topics:
Residential needs and sustainability in the post-oil era in Middle east countries
Sustainable/affordable housing for low/middle-income residents
Resilience and adaptation in residential transformations
History and sustainability in residential needs
Sustainable re-sues of residential heritage
Sustainable urban growth in Middle East Regions
Lifestyle and residential transformations in fast-growing countries
Mega-events and the residential sustainable needs
'Spectacular' residential housing and sustainable lifestyle
Sustainability in construction for residential units
Sustainable materials for construction
Information for authors
The research topic welcomes original research articles, contributions and case studies to discuss the residential needs of cities targeting a sustainable growth especially in Middle Eastern Regions and discussing any possible residential strategy with sustainable approach from different points of view.
Keywords: Sustainable Residential Growth, Population growth, Cosmopolitan Cities, energy efficiency
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