The Routledge Handbook on Greening High Density Cities: Climate, Society and Health

This handbook brings together researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and people’s health, serving as a reference book for policymakers, practitioners, academics, and researchers to study, design, and build high-density cities by integrating green spaces.

Dr. Peng Du is an Assistant Professor and Director of both Master of Urban Design - Future Cities (MUD) and M.S. in Urban Analytics and Geodesign programs at the College of Architecture and Built Environment in Thomas Jefferson University. He is also a Research Fellow of Jefferson Institute of Smart & Healthy Cities.

Dr. Kheir Al-Kodmany is an expert in vertical urbanism, sustainable design, GIS, visualization systems, public participation, and crowd management. He is a Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and previously worked for the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM).

Dr. Mir M. Ali is Professor Emeritus and former long-time chairman of the Structures Division in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has extensive industrial experience that includes Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill and Sargent & Lundy in Chicago.