Greening the economy: A review of urban sustainability measures for developing new cities

Addanki, Sai Charan; Venkataraman, Hrishikesh

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2017.03.009

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“…However, we can also use it to classify cities that are efficient and incorporate the three dimensions of sustainability: environment, economics, and society. It is necessary to discuss in detail the essential features that are needed for achieving sustainability [77]. For that reason, we should have some tools that are able to measure the performance of a city through the development of different potential techniques in the planning and development of sustainable cities, but also some suggestions on how to reach a green economy and to make some urban changes that lead to sustainable cities, especially in the mobility and transportation system, so that politics and planners may adjust their policies.…”

Section: Promoting Cycling With Digital Solutions For Sustainabilitymentioning

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Digital Platform/Mobile App to Boost Cycling for the Promotion of Sustainable Mobility in Mid-Sized Starter Cycling Cities

Meireles

Ribeiro

2020

Sustainability

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According to the United Nations, cities will represent two-thirds of the world's population in 2050, which presents some challenges, especially to the transportation sector. To improve the population's quality of life and the sustainability of cities, mobility must be sustainable, and cycling will play an important role in achieving this. Literature shows that we can promote cycling with better infrastructures, through multimodality, and through behavioral changes. Promoting the use of bicycles through behavior can involve a number of aspects, but in this work, we explore what a digital platform should have in order to promote and increase bicycle usage, as well as to improve cycling conditions in a city. To evaluate what is needed, we conducted an analysis on different types of digital platforms that are available on the market in order to assess the main characteristics and outputs that they provide to cyclists, as well as the type of information that can and should be added to promote the use of bicycles in cities. Moreover, we also carried out a survey in a Portuguese mid-sized "starter cycling city", which showed, among other data, the relevance and type of information that a digital platform dedicated to cyclists should have in such types of cities.

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Section: Promoting Cycling With Digital Solutions For Sustainabilitymentioning

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Digital Platform/Mobile App to Boost Cycling for the Promotion of Sustainable Mobility in Mid-Sized Starter Cycling Cities

Meireles

Ribeiro

2020

Sustainability

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“…For the economic infrastructures, transport is central to social activity and has a strong relationship with regional social sustainability (Too & Earl, 2010). Improvement of quality and effectiveness of transport can improve region accessibility and provide access to other public services (Addanki & Venkataraman, 2017). Lack of access to public utilities is a serious hindrance to economic and social development and must be overcome if the SDGs are to be achieved (Kaygusuz, 2012).…”

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“…Meanwhile, urbanization puts enormous pressure on infrastructures due to the increasing needs for public facilities and services (Addanki & Venkataraman, ). To facilitate urbanization, China's government encourages large investments on infrastructures.…”

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Evaluating the regional social sustainability contribution of public‐private partnerships in China: The development of an indicator system

Yuan

Zhang

Tan

et al. 2019

Sustainable Development

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Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been increasingly adopted in China. Sustainability of PPPs has become a priority for a sustainable development of PPPs. Most prior studies focus on sustainable implementation of PPP projects. Few research efforts have been done to examine the impacts of PPPs to sustainability from an external perspective and a more macro geographical scale. Meanwhile, the social aspect of the sustainability of PPPs has not been widely studied. Therefore, this study aims to propose a social sustainability contribution evaluation system (SSCES) for PPPs to evaluate PPPs' contribution to regional social sustainability at the institutional level. An indicator system of the SSCES for PPPs was developed, which included 8 requirements for socially sustainable development and 33 social sustainability indicators. The weights of indicators were determined by using the analytic hierarchy process method. The results indicate that, in the context of China, promoting peopleoriented urbanization in PPPs can help enhance regional social sustainability. This study provides a useful evaluation tool for various stakeholders to evaluate the sustainability of PPPs from an institutional level, especially for local governments to review current PPP polices and make improvements.

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“…It has been suggested that objective criteria apply to physical, social and economic functions whereas subjective criteria refer to various aspects of personal life, such as desires, expectations, happiness and pleasure (Ozturk and Ozdemir, 2013). Accordingly, research focusing on the quality of life can be categorized by applying physical (Smith et al, 1997;Mohadeseh et al, 2015), social (Zenker and Rutter, 2014;Turksever and Atalik, 2001;Theodori, 2004;Berntze and Johannessen, 2016) and economic (Brunelle, 2013;Addanki and Venkataraman, 2017;Pratt and Hutton2013) criteria. Some studies have investigated the quality of cities in a more compherensive way (Kaklauskas et al, 2018;Węziak-Białowolska, 2016;Essam and Khalil, 2012).…”

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The influence of green areas on city-dwellers' perceptions of air pollution: The case of Nigde city center

Çetin¹,

Karafaki²

2020

JEB

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Aim:Methodology: Results:Interpretation: Key words:The aim of the stıdy was to determine the effect of green areas in order to improve the quality of life and create positive perceptions on air quality by modifying physical and social environments within the cities.Literature research, official data and a semi structured questionnaire conducted with the citizens of Nigde were used. SPSS version 21.0 was used for data evaluation.Findings indicated that green spaces could reducethe negative perception about poor air quality. Even if official authorities do not report air pollution, the lack of green space in the city center influences the perception of air quality in negative way.Green spaces in convenient number, size and quality should be included in city centers for improving the quality of life in cities.

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Greening the economy: A review of urban sustainability measures for developing new cities

Cited by 105 publications

References 4 publications

Digital Platform/Mobile App to Boost Cycling for the Promotion of Sustainable Mobility in Mid-Sized Starter Cycling Cities

Digital Platform/Mobile App to Boost Cycling for the Promotion of Sustainable Mobility in Mid-Sized Starter Cycling Cities

Evaluating the regional social sustainability contribution of public‐private partnerships in China: The development of an indicator system

The influence of green areas on city-dwellers' perceptions of air pollution: The case of Nigde city center

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