A Model of Sustainable Urban Development Formation

Abstract

Life in any modern city of the world is concentrated mostly in a particular ever-changing environment. Micro, meso and macro environments have a direct impact on sustainable urban development opportunities. This may facilitate sustainable urban development or, on the contrary, it may create constraints. Micro, meso and macro environments must be considered as an aggregate of forces influencing sustainable urban development and combining both the factors that have a direct impact and those whose impact is indirectly. This researches aim was to develop a model of sustainable urban development formation by undertaking a complex analysis of micro, meso and macro environmental factors affecting it and to present recommendations for the increase of its competitive abilities.

Comparison of housing market sustainability in European countries based on multiple criteria assessment

“…Ecological indicators were promoted by Rosales (2011) and Tanguay et al (2010). Multicriteria models to assess sustainability were created by Zavadskas et al (2004), Mulliner et al (2013) and Bournaris et al (2014).…”

Urban Development and Property Management in the Context of Societal Transformations: Strategic Decision‐making

“…A concept of cities and their development has been analyzed in many theoretical studies from various perspectives, including historical, cultural, social, economic, architectural and other aspects. This concept serves as a basis for carrying out research in various areas related to urbanization Zavadskas et al, 2001a, Zavadskas et al, 2001b, Zavadskas et al, 2001cZavadskas and Kaklauskas, 2003;Zavadskas et al, 2003a, Zavadskas et al, 2003b, Zavadskas et al, 2003cZavadskas and Antuchevičienė, 2004, Zavadskas et al, 2004a, Zavadskas et al, 2004bZavadskas and Kaklauskas, 2005;Weiss, 2003Weiss, , 2004Leung and Hui, 2005;Hui and Tse, 2002;Burinskienė and Rudzkienė, 2004;.…”

“…The city as the environment influencing the processes of property creation and accumulation should be approached as a system: the need for using a systems approach to this environment is determined by a multidimensional relationship between social, economic, political and technological aspects of development. A highly promising method of evaluating this multidimensional relationship seems to be the application of multicriteria analysis and optimization (Low and Sloan, 2000;Ginevičius and Podvezko, 2005;Zavadskas et al, 2001a, Zavadskas et al, 2001b, Zavadskas et al, 2001cZavadskas and Kaklauskas, 2003;Zavadskas et al, 2003a, Zavadskas et al, 2003b, Zavadskas et al, 2003cZavadskas and Antuchevičienė, 2004, Zavadskas et al, 2004a, Zavadskas et al, 2004bZavadskas and Kaklauskas, 2005).…”

“…To solve the above different problems, multiple criteria evaluation and optimization methods may be used: -in developing individual strategies for subjects, these methods may be used so that any strategic decision would be oriented to a set of various criteria adequately describing the interests of an individual subject, -in harmonizing strategies of various subjects and developing or grounding a unified strategy, the above methods may be used to orient this general strategy to a balanced set of criteria adequately representing a group of subjects. Multicriteria evaluation and optimization methods used for solving the problems of the above two types have been thoroughly studied and described in many theories (Low and Sloan, 2000;Deakin, 2002;Ginevičius and Podvezko, 2005;Zavadskas et al, 2001a, Zavadskas et al, 2001b, Zavadskas et al, 2001cZavadskas and Kaklauskas, 2003;Zavadskas et al, 2003a, Zavadskas et al, 2003b, Zavadskas et al, 2003cZavadskas and Antuchevičienė, 2004, Zavadskas et al, 2004a, Zavadskas et al, 2004bZavadskas and Kaklauskas, 2005).…”

“…An efficient way of solving the above problem is based on two ideas: -first, the processes of societal transformation, urban development and property creation and accumulation should be approached as an object for complex strategic management: the integration of these processes into a single system allows for considering the theories of strategic management of societal transformations, urban development and the creation and accumulation of property from the perspectives other than the traditional views would allow us to do; -second, to analyze the strategic management of urban development and the creation and accumulation of property under the conditions of societal transformations, multiple criteria evaluation and optimization methods may be applied. Wide areas of application of these methods demonstrated by Zavadskas and his colleagues show that they can be successfully applied to the analysis of the strategic management of urban development and property creation and accumulation in the period of societal transformations Zavadskas et al, 2001a, Zavadskas et al, 2001b, Zavadskas et al, 2001cZavadskas and Kaklauskas, 2003;Zavadskas et al, 2003a, Zavadskas et al, 2003b, Zavadskas et al, 2003cZavadskas and Antuchevičienė, 2004, Zavadskas et al, 2004a, Zavadskas et al, 2004bZavadskas and Kaklauskas, 2005). The above considerations allow us to define the goal of the present work as a comprehensive analysis of urban development and the creation and accumulation of property as a complex object of strategic management, and a feasibility study of the application of multicriteria evaluation and optimization methods to strategic decision-making in the considered areas.…”