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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction: Greening High-Density Cities: Toward Sustainable and Resilient Urban Habitats -- PART I: Climate -- 1. Cities' Match-Making: Fostering International Collaboration for Climate-Resilient Twins -- 2. An Analysis of the Potential Role of Controlled Environment Agriculture in Dense Urban Developments: A Case Study of Chicago -- 3. Mitigating Climate Change: The Potential of Vertical Farming to Feed High-Density Cities -- 4. A Modular Greening Intervention in Sydney CBD: Variation and Optimization through Evolutionary Computation -- 5. Greening High-Density Texas Cities: Ecological Grounds for an Adaptive Climate Approach -- 6. Greening the Gray and Dense Center of São Paulo, Brazil: From Green Roofs to Disputed Fragments of Green Spaces -- 7. Overcoming the Planning Gap by Greening the City: From Designing for the Past to Anticipating Future Climates -- 8. Inhabiting, Expanding, and Greening: The PREVI Housing Development Approach -- 9. Juan Diaz River Basin Study Case: How to Green a High-Density City -- 10. Greening High-Density Buildings, Open Space, and Infrastructures: Circular and Regenerative Climate Actions Linking Environmental with Social Aspects -- 11. Urbanizing the Amazonian Rainforest: A Multi-Objective Urban Model for Rainforest Cohabitation -- PART II: Society -- 12. The Social Imperative of Urban Greening -- 13. Beyond Slum Upgrading: Rental Densification as a Pattern for Urban Greening in São Paulo -- 14. The Role of Green Space in Urban Growth and Social Equity in Dallas, Texas -- 15. Greening of Sociable Spaces and Buildings in Postindustrial High-Density Cities -- 16. Daily Accessed Street Greenery in High-Density Built Environments: A Comparative Study of Major Chinese Cities.