Innovative Approach for the Development of Sustainable Settlements in East Africa : Affordable Housing for Mogadishu

Bellini, Oscar Eugenio

ISBN 10: 3031002857 / ISBN 13: 9783031002854

Editore: Springer 2022-11, 2022

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Titolo: Innovative Approach for the Development of ...

Casa editrice: Springer 2022-11

Data di pubblicazione: 2022

Legatura: PF

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This book deals with sustainable affordable housing in developing countries, providing the main results of the BECOMe research project of the Politecnico di Milano. Sustainable, affordable housing in developing countries is increasingly important for African and international stakeholders, with massive urbanization processes involving many countries consuming large territories and natural resources minus any strategy of sustainability and social equality and without consideration of the long-term effects on the environment and subsequent generations. While the issue of affordable housing requires approaches adapted to the many specific African contexts, the case of Somalia seems representative of a fragile context characterized by the uncertainty of the social, political, and economic situations and the lack of common shared legislative references and strategies. The book aims to provide knowledge and propose a methodological framework developed from this particular situation that can serve as a template. On the basis of this main objective, the book deals with approaches and problems related to the creation of sustainable housing ecosystems, activating and boosting local enterprises and stimulating foreign investors to revamp the national AEC sector and related manufacturing industries, models for modular settlements, and business models and assessment methodologies useful for evaluating a set of appropriate technological solutions.

Chapters [Chapter-No.] and [Chapter-No.] are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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Ramana M. Pidaparti earned his Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Dr. Pidaparti is now a professor and Distinguished Faculty Scholar in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. He was previously a faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University and Purdue School of Engineering and Technology (IUPUI). He taught design and analysis courses emphasizing multidisciplinary designs and simulations, and encouraged students to participate in multidisciplinary design competitions. He won several design awards and presented papers at various conferences. He is a Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of Royal Aeronautical Society, and Associate Fellow of AIAA (American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics). His current research interests include multidisciplinary design from Arts and Biomimicry, and bioinspired materials and structures, and computational mechanics and informatics.