Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 1999-07-22
Category :
ISBN : 9264173196
This book analyses steps taken by Germany to reviatlise city centres against the background of features specific to Germany: its federal system, the unification process, and its polycentric urban pattern.
Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
This book analyses steps taken by Germany to reviatlise city centres against the background of features specific to Germany: its federal system, the unification process, and its polycentric urban pattern.
Author : International Institute for the Urban Environment
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 1998
Category : City planning
ISBN :
Author : Pernilla Hagbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0429832885
This book investigates co-housing as an alternative housing form in relation to sustainable urban development. Co-housing is often lauded as a more sustainable way of living. The primary aim of this book is to critically explore co-housing in the context of wider social, economic, political and environmental developments. This volume fills a gap in the literature by contextualising co-housing and related housing forms. With focus on Denmark, Sweden, Hamburg and Barcelona, the book presents general analyses of co-housing in these contexts and provides specific discussions of co-housing in relation to local government, urban activism, family life, spatial logics and socio-ecology. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in a broad range of social-scientific fields concerned with housing, urban development and sustainability, as well as to planners, decision-makers and activists.
Author : Tan Yigitcanlar
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3038979066
The concept of ‘sustainable urban development’ has been pushed to the forefront of policymaking and politics as the world wakes up to the impacts of climate change and the destructive effects of the Anthropocene. Climate change has emerged to be one of the biggest challenges faced by our planet today, threatening both built and natural systems with long-term consequences, which may be irreversible. While there is a vast body of literature on sustainability and sustainable urban development, there is currently limited focus on how to cohesively bring together the vital issues of the planning, development, and management of sustainable cities. Moreover, it has been widely stated that current practices and lifestyles cannot continue if we are to leave a healthy living planet to not only the next generation, but also to the generations beyond. The current global school strikes for climate action (known as Fridays for Future) evidences this. The book advocates the view that the focus needs to rest on ways in which our cities and industries can become green enough to avoid urban ecocide. This book fills a gap in the literature by bringing together issues related to the planning, development, and management of cities and focusing on a triple-bottom-line approach to sustainability.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2001-07-11
Category :
ISBN : 9264193189
How can we meet the needs of today without diminishing the capacity of future generations to meet theirs? This is the central question posed by "sustainable development". OECD countries committed themselves to sustainable development at the 1992 UN ...
Author : M. Reza Shirazi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1351631527
This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment. Urban Social Sustainability provides an in-depth insight into the discourse and argues that every urban intervention has a social sustainability dimension that needs to be taken into consideration, and incorporated into a comprehensive and cohesive ‘urban agenda’ that is built on three principles of recognition, integration, and monitoring. This should be achieved through a dialogical and reflexive process of decision-making. To achieve sustainable communities, social sustainability should form the basis of a constructive dialogue and be interlinked with other areas of sustainable development. This book underlines the urgency of approaching social sustainability as an urban agenda and goes on to make suggestions about its formulation. Urban Social Sustainability consists of original contributions from academics and experts within the field and explores the significance of social sustainability from different perspectives. Areas covered include urban policy, transportation and mobility, urban space and architectural form, housing, urban heritage, neighbourhood development, and urban governance. Drawing on case studies from a number of countries and world regions the book presents a multifaceted and interdisciplinary understanding from social sustainability in urban settings, and provides practitioners and policy makers with innovative recommendations to achieve more socially sustainable urban environment.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2017-06-08
Category :
ISBN : 9264268855
This report provides a comprehensive assessment of Kazakhstan’s urban policies in terms of economic, social and environmental impact.
Author : Israa H. Mahmoud
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030895254
Urban greening policies and measures have recently shown a high potential impact on the design and reshaping of the built environment, especially in urban regeneration processes. This book provides insights on analytical methods, planning strategies and shared governance tools for successfully integrating Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the urban planning practice. The selected contributions present real-life application cases, in which the mainstreaming of NBS are investigated according to two main challenges: the planning and designing of physical and spatial integration of NBS in cities on one side, and the implementation of suitable shared governance models and co-creation pathways on the other. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author : Sigrun Kabisch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,33 MB
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319593242
The book addresses urban transformations towards sustainability in light of challenges of global urbanization processes and the consequences of global environmental change. The aim is to show that urban transformations only succeed if both innovative scientific solutions and practice-oriented governance approaches are developed. This assumption is addressed by providing theoretical insights and empirical evidence pointing particularly at 3 concepts or qualities which are determined here as being central for achieving urban sustainability: resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience. Urban case studies from several international research projects illustrate our conceptual approach of urban transformations towards sustainable development. Thus, the book reaches far beyond a mere additive description of single case studies. It incorporates the results of condensed synthesis, resulting from comparisons and evaluations. It provides, based on cross-cutting reflection of single cases and different scales and methods of analysis, general and transferable findings. They do not only consider the scientific sphere but deliberately go beyond it discussing transferability of knowledge into practice, governance options and the feasibility of policy strategies in order to pave the way for sustainable urban transformations to happen today and in the future.
