Modelling Urban Sustainabilty

Spiekermann, Klaus; Wegener, Michael

doi:10.1080/12265934.2003.9693522

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“…Collectively termed as the 'sustainable urban movement', these efforts have inspired a range of initiatives in the UK including 'healthy cities', 'urban villages', 'millennium communities', 'mixed communities', 'growth areas' and 'housing market renewal' projects. A range of approaches have been pursued to measure their success including the ecological footprint and cost-benefit analysis (CBA) methods, but perhaps, the most influential ones have been those dedicated to developing sets of sustainability indicators (see for example (Mega and Pedersen, 1998, Spiekermann and Wegener, 2003, Ravetz, 2000, Maclaren, 1996). .…”

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Re-thinking sustainability indicators: local perspectives of urban sustainability

Turcu

2013

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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The measurement of sustainability is not only a contentious issue, but one which has captured the attention of both academics and politicians since the late 1980s. A plethora of methods and approaches have been developed over the last decades or so, from rapid measurements as inputs to specific projects, to longer-term processes of research, monitoring and wider learning. But perhaps, the most influential ones have been indicators. The tensions between expert-led and citizen-led models of indicator development have fuelled much debate in the literature, in relation to their reliability or effectiveness. Among the solutions suggested, integrating the two approaches has been seen as salient to tapping into various levels of 'knowledge' of sustainability and thus, a better way of assessing sustainability. However, little is known of whether these 'integrated' sets of sustainability indicators work in practice or, indeed, reflect local perspectives, values and understandings of sustainability which they aim to represent. This paper aims to fill this gap. We first design such an 'integrative' set of indicators which we then discuss with over 60 'sustainability experts' and 130 residents living in three urban areas in the UK. We find that our set of indicators is generally a good reflection of urban sustainability in these areas, however, individual indicators held different degrees of 'importance' in people's day-to-day lives, something which is little accounted for when measuring urban sustainability. We also find that sustainability indicators are not isolated pieces of information, but manifestations of local underlying processes and interconnections that can be mapped and which have the potential to shed more light on our understanding of local sustainability.

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Re-thinking sustainability indicators: local perspectives of urban sustainability

Turcu

2013

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

293

214

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“…''Cities are the most heterogeneous landscapes. Urban sustainability requires minimizing the consumption of space and resources, optimizing urban form to facilitate urban flows, protecting both ecosystem and human health, ensuring equal access to resources and services, and maintaining cultural and social diversity and integrity (Alberti and Susskind 1996;Spiekermann and Wegener 2003;Wu 2008b). This interpretation of urban sustainability as been discussed by Musacchio (Musacchio 2009a) and it is generally consistent with the problems of landscape sustainability.…”

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confidence: 85%

Modelling of Assessment of the Green Space in the Urban Composition

Kechebour

2015

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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The aim of this paper is to present a model that permits to assessment the quantitative green space and its costs in the urban. This approach is founded on the modelling of the functions and the corresponding spaces into an orthogonal parcel having a planar form. The elaboration of such as tool is a response to the sustainable urban development that recommends the optimization of land use. The summation of all spaces that compose the parcel defines the surface called plot surface. The green space into the parcel is a correlation of shape and disposition of the plots, and of the number of plots in the Master Plan. The urban composition is characterized by a mathematical system composed by two equations represented respectively by the urban density and the site coverage ratio. This system is indeterminate because there is one unknown: the building footprint; and one correlation: the plot surface. To solving this problem, it is demanded to use loop procedure, and finite difference method that consists to introduce a random value of urban density, then to compare the obtained density with the introduced value. At last, the study finishes by the presentation of graphs illustrating the ratio and the costs of green areas in function with the urban density, and by the showing of the software.

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“…They cover, first of all, economic, nature-and-ecological, social (including demographic), town-planning (including land use), infrastructure (energy, transportation, housing and communal) aspects, often interwoven and interlinked [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. During the previous three decades the prevailing approach was based mainly on ensuring long-term environmental and ecological sustainability [1,5,9], however recent research done in developed countries (the USA, Canada, European countries), as well as in the developing ones (China, Indonesia, Iran, etc.) has demonstrated a certain bias toward ensuring economic, social and infrastructural development of cities and towns, provided the environmental and ecological situation does not deteriorate [2 , 4-7].…”

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“…Such indices can directly characterize not only the urban development sustainability degree, but also the quality of life of the population, the urban environment quality, and the liveness (survivability) of urban infrastructure [10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. However, they all share many similar indicators, the dynamics of the corresponding indices and their components can always give an assessment of the degree of of urban development sustainability in its entirety [5,7,9,12,14,16,17]. At the same time, it should be noted that such indices contain an environmental-and-ecological element and, therefore, they can be essentially defined as urbanecological in a broad sense.…”

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Economic Aspects Analysis in Calculation and Application of the Urban Environment Quality Index

2020

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The goal of the study is to make a comparative analysis of the dynamics of indices of economic indicators and sufficiency indicators used to calculate an urban environment quality index of a Russian municipality. The city of Kirov, Russia, was taken as a sample for the study, which went on from 2012 through 2018. The analysis demonstrated practically no statistically significant correlations in the dynamics of indices of individual subgroups of indicators, as well as in the dynamics of indices of individual indicators, although with a few exceptions. The results of the study confirm the need to improve the methodology of calculating the integral indices of cities and regions. These indices are related to urban ecology, quality of life, and sustainable development issues. The results also demonstrated the inadequacy of such tools for systematic and comprehensive international analysis of today urbanization problems.

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Modelling Urban Sustainabilty

Cited by 32 publications

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Re-thinking sustainability indicators: local perspectives of urban sustainability

Re-thinking sustainability indicators: local perspectives of urban sustainability

Modelling of Assessment of the Green Space in the Urban Composition

Economic Aspects Analysis in Calculation and Application of the Urban Environment Quality Index

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