Sustainable development of urban environment and building material : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 4th International Conference on Technology of Architecture and Structure (ICTAS 2011), September 22-24, 2011, Xi'an, China

These peer-reviewed papers record the invaluable researches of the authors in the fields of innovation in structural system and disaster prevention in engineering structures, architectural innovation, sustainable development of buildings and the environment and innovations in, and applications of, building materials. Hot topics and state-of-the-art view related to sustainable development in civil engineering are presented.