A Sustainable City in the Context of Urban Development

Abstract

The concept of sustainable cities is based on a development paradigm that recognizes the rapid growth of urban population and makes an important contribution by forming a global urban plan. Sustainable city is organized in order to emphasize the importance of people and their needs. This paper will define what sustainable city is and show how certain innovative elements have been introduced in Copenhagen in order to achieve city sustainability. In that regard, an overview of innovative urban solutions in the context of environmental protection will be given. A comparative analysis of the achievement of the SDG 11 objective - Sustainable Cities and Sustainable Communities in Copenhagen will be carried out in relation to the other European Union capitals. The aim of this research is to determine whether Copenhagen is a sustainable city and how sustainable cities contribute to promoting the sustainable development goals. Finally, proposals will be made to achieve those objectives for other cities, based on the results achieved by the City of Copenhagen.

Sustainable Cities, Rescue of Original Construction Methods and Use of Technology. A literary Review

“…But it also raises a life and urban growth in harmony with the environment, aware of the serious consequences that they can bring, the use of fossil fuels, polluting materials, reduction of green spaces and endemic biodiversity, affecting the quality of life of all the inhabitants on earth with consequences such as climatic factors disorders, considering that vegetation regulates CO2, and all these factors function as a chain in which a small variation in one of it, produces alterations in all of them. [8,9,10] The sustainable city is a city that analyzes and takes advantage of the characteristics of its environment through the formation of an urban plan that introduces "innovative" elements such as the use of construction methods, materials and characteristics of the original or native buildings of the environment where it is implanted as well as new technologies that allow reaching goals previously unthinkable and that in most cases allow a circular metabolism of the city, promoting a change in urbanization form, in which not only modern technology is used but also the native strategies of the environments are rescued and enhanced, designed to function and generate comfort without damaging the environment or consuming large amounts of fossil fuels [6,7,11].…”