Urbanie & Urbanus

Issue 2020 Jan

Sustainable Cities

https://www.doi.org/10.55412/03.03

Issue 3, P.37 - P.49

Sustainable High Density Cities: Empowering Practitioners with Digital Technologies

Dr. Jianxiang Huang

Sustainable High Density Cities Lab, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong 

 and  Mengdi Guo and  Anqi Zhang and  Tongping Hao and  Yiming Sun and  Phil Jones

Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University

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