Sustainable Real Estate in the Developing World

Raymond Talinbe Abdulai is a Senior Lecturer in Real Estate and Urban Development at the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.Kwasi Gyau Baffour Awuah is an academic and lead for real estate research and consultancy cluster at the School of Science, Engineering, and Environment, University of Salford, Manchester, UK.

• Chapter 1. Sustainability and real estate: context and concepts; Raymond Talinbe Abdulai and Kwasi Gyau Baffour Awuah Chapter 2. Linkages between urbanization, real estate investments, and sustainability in Turkey; Yesim Tanrıvermiş and Harun Tanrıvermiş Chapter 3. Demand for sustainable features in commercial real estate in Nigeria; Timothy Tunde Oladokun and Robert Ereola Shiyanbola Chapter 4. An overview of real estate sustainability in Romania; Vlad Poenaru Chapter 5. Urban development, land use changes, and environmental impacts in Zambia’s major cities: a case study of Ndola; Ephraim K. Munshifwa, Chota M. Mwenya and Anthony Mushinge Chapter 6. The case of North Lake (Beihu) ecological new town in Jining, Shandong, China: discourses of class, taste, luxury consumption, and ‘conduct’; Qianqian Qin and Andrew Law Chapter 7. Real estate (RE) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Ghana; Raymond Abdulai and Kwasi Gyau Baffour Awuah Chapter 8. Urbanization, environmental externalities, and house prices in China; Helen X. H. Bao Chapter 9. Building information modelling (BIM) adaptability for sustainable residential property development in Lagos, Nigeria; Benjamin Gbolahan Ekemode and Daramola Thompson Olapade Chapter 10. Housing development in the context of environmental sustainability: the Ghanaian experience; Kwasi Gyau Baffour Awuah and Raymond Talinbe Abdulai  Chapter 11. COVID-19 and sustainability; Raymond Abdulai and Kwasi Gyau Baffour Awuah Chapter 12. Sustainability in real estate: conclusions and prospects; Kwasi Gyau Baffour Awuah and Raymond Talinbe Abdulai