Obstacles to developing sustainable cities: the real estate rigidity trap

Turner, V. Kelly

doi:10.5751/es-09166-220201

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“…In more recent years, cities have actively engaged in the UN climate negotiations, asking for and committing to greenhouse gas mitigation targets [2,4,5]. At the same time, cities are facing many challenges, such as containing urban sprawl [6,7], limiting greenhouse gas emissions [8,9], ensuring satisfactory and sustainable water supply, providing adequate waste management and improving human health [6,10,11].…”

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confidence: 99%

Applying the SDGs to Cities: Business as Usual or a New Dawn?

2018

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With growing urbanisation the sustainability of cities has become increasingly important. Although cities have been using indicators for a long time it is only in the last decades that attempts have been made to collate indicators into sets that reflect the many different aspects required to assess the sustainability of a city. The aim of this paper is to review the evolution of indicators for monitoring sustainable urban development in order to understand how ‘new’ the indicators suggested by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are for cities and the challenges they may face in using them. The review reveals that previous indicator sets emphasised environmental sustainability, health and economic growth. It is also shown that indicator sets that pre-date the SDGs lacked dimensions such as gender equality and reduced inequalities. In all, the SDG indicators provide the possibility of a more balanced and integrated approach to urban sustainability monitoring. At the same time, further research is needed to understand how to adapt the SDGs, targets and indicators to specific urban contexts. Challenges of local application include their large number, their generic characteristics and the need to complement them with specific indicators that are more relevant at the city level.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Applying the SDGs to Cities: Business as Usual or a New Dawn?

2018

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“…Although this factor occurred the least among the sampled literature, the role of developers as private sector to understand the persistence of conventional sprawl development and adopt sustainable alternatives to penetrate conventional markets has been emphasised. Developers have large control over the form and function of urban landscapes directly through construction activities that determine landscape configuration [44]. In some instances, the participation of the private developer is critical to making decisions about the desired function of a proposed development, as well as in the eventual success of real estate projects by the marketing strategies they use [35].…”

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“…In some instances, the participation of the private developer is critical to making decisions about the desired function of a proposed development, as well as in the eventual success of real estate projects by the marketing strategies they use [35]. Desired functions on urban resilience within cities are closely related to land planning and development decisions that determine the composition and configuration of urban lands and the ecosystem services urban systems can provide [44]. Therefore, failure or unwillingness of developers to adopt new innovative alternatives to develop real estate is a concern.…”

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confidence: 99%

Towards Sustainability of Real Estate Development: An Integrative Review of Smart City Planning Considerations

Okoro¹,

Andre²,

Marno³

2020

Proceedings of the Creative Construction E-Conference 2020

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With the ever-increasing urban sprawl in African cities, more attention should be paid to the provision of real estate infrastructure to cater for the population. Ways to harness Africa's possibilities and leverage the opportunities available in the fourth industrial revolution, to diminish housing infrastructure backlogs, warrant consideration. The current study therefore aims to identify the factors that influence the sustainability of real estate developments in recent times, with attention to the planning considerations. An integrative review was conducted with literature from databases including Scopus, Google, Google Scholar, Publish or Perish, Academic Search Complete and Emerald. Synthesis was undertaken using thematic content analysis to identify themes on the factors influencing real estate developments and its sustainability. The distillation of literature revealed that institutional and economic factors were considered the most important factors, while developer's attitude and socio-cultural factors were the least occurring among the sampled literature. By establishing these factors, the current study provides important information for housing and construction stakeholders to be informed and guided in the planning and implementation of real estate development policies in order to provide for and sustain the needs of the current population and future generations given the need for smart cities.

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“…2014, systems in which wider needs are addressed, such as those of key workers including teachers, nurses and police officials (Raco, 2008), and more general governance systems based on the idea of a social-market economy grounded in the view that markets, although efficient in resource allocation, do not deliver morally just outcomes (Müller-Armack, 1978). These outcomes may also not be sustainable and may contribute to urban sprawl (Turner, 2017).…”

Section: Urban Governancementioning

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Planning initiative: Promoting development by the use of options in Amsterdam

Altes

2019

Land Use Policy

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The development of existing urban areas is needed to prevent urban sprawl. Several factors, including land assembly holdouts and the option value of land, contribute to landowners' lack of initiative to develop designated sites. Urban governance measures, however, may provide the necessary solutions. By implementing policies that promote inner-city development, i.e. by providing serviced plots for building development, urban expansion can be controlled to ensure that it does not result in a higher scarcity of land. This paper presents the case of Amsterdam, where policies ensure the timely securing of land appropriate for building and the use of option contracts to promote development. The results are discussed and their relevance to other contexts demonstrated.

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Obstacles to developing sustainable cities: the real estate rigidity trap

Cited by 13 publications

References 69 publications

Applying the SDGs to Cities: Business as Usual or a New Dawn?

Applying the SDGs to Cities: Business as Usual or a New Dawn?

Towards Sustainability of Real Estate Development: An Integrative Review of Smart City Planning Considerations

Planning initiative: Promoting development by the use of options in Amsterdam

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