Seeking urban sustainability on the world stage

Holden, Meg; Roseland, Mark; Ferguson, Karen; Perl, Anthony

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2007.11.001

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“…After the Brunt land Report, consequent debates pointed out that economic interests and environmental considerations are not opposed to development discourse. Also order to secure intergenerational equity, these sides should meet some agreed consensus (Holden, Roseland, Ferguson, & Perl, 2008). The applicability of sustainable development to real settings has been one of the most discussed issues in conferences and the literature.…”

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Urban Form and Sustainable Development: The Case of Urmia City

Mobaraki¹,

Mohammadi²,

Asghar³

2012

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The importance of urban form on sustainable development has been recognized in recent years. Since the late 20th century, a number of countries have adopted urban form policies in environmental planning. Urban form directly affects habitat, ecosystems, endangered species, and water quality through consumption, fragmentation, and or replacement of the natural cover with an impervious surface. The current research aims at identifying the urban model of Urmia City so to achieve a sustainable form. This study is applied and utilizes both descriptive and analytical methods. To measure the model of urban growth, Holdern, Shannon's entropy, Moran and Geary's coefficients were employed. The findings indicate that the model of urban growth is sprawl and this may leads to ecological, social and economical and urban form that is unsustainable. Regarding the consequences of sprawl growth and the movement toward achieving a sustainable development and sustainable urban form, it appears that the decentralized centralization method (changing one central city into multicentre one based on centralization and multiplication of activities in sub centers) with the emphasis on principles and strategies of urban smart growth is the best model for achieving sustainable form in the future.

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Urban Form and Sustainable Development: The Case of Urmia City

Mobaraki¹,

Mohammadi²,

Asghar³

2012

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“…Collaborative approaches are the hub of dominant theoretical paradigms of industry-related discourses on sustainable development (ibid). The dominant proper economic paradigm supports the singular and competitive behaviors of cities towards sustainability (Holden et al, 2008). However, the progress towards sustainability is not satisfactory in developing countries (Saadatian et al, 2009).…”

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Identifying Challenges in Implementing Sustainable Practices in a Developing Nation

Saadatian¹,

Tahir²,

Dola³

2010

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The South Pars Special Economic Energy Zone (SPSEEZ) is the largest petroleum zone in Iran and the second biggest gas producer in the world. It is now one of the world's most important eco-industrial poles. Despite the rapid development and activists' calls to sustainable path, there is little systematic effort in the assessment of industrial zones sustainability in developing countries. Iran, a nation that has ratified the Rio Declaration pact, has moved forward in order to achieve sustainable development. There have always been controversial debates due to its success. This paper employs survey, interview as well as observation to explore the perception of people on planning and sustainable development efforts and to identify the most important challenges at SPSEEZ. The result shows that the major impediment against sustainability is the lack of involvement from urban planners and the public during decision-making process. Finally, the paper contributes to the identification of the most urgent problems in SPSEEZ and the functions of different stakeholders as a reference for better sustainable development planning.

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“…This together with the wicked nature of these problems and the many stakeholders involved on a global level makes urban development a difficult area. As a consequence, nowadays rhetoric appears to emphasise the important role cities have in handling and leveraging the challenges that coincide with urbanisation and globalisation (Holden, Roseland, Ferguson, Perl, 2008;Albino, Berardi, Dangelico, 2015). However, this is not an easy task for cities and city planners, which Clos corroborated above.…”

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“…Hence, here we can see a shift from a discourse focusing on top-down driven solutions and changes (global) to bottom-up driven ones (local). Cities are in this new context put forward as change agents and drivers of innovation ) and the city is attributed "a pivotal role" in achieving a sustainable development (Kievani, 2010;Holden et al, 2008).…”

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The Smart City – how smart can ’IT’ be? : Discourses on digitalisation in policy and planning of urban development

Granath¹

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Cities are facing many challenges; challenges linked to world-wide trends like urbanisation, climate changes and globalisation. In parallel to these trends, we have seen a rapid digitalisation in and of different parts of society. Cities and local governments have been appointed an important role in overcoming these world-wide challenges, and subsequently, in policy practices digitalisation is perceived as an important dimension in delivering better and sustainable services to its citizens. As a result, the smart city has emerged as a concept and approach to contemporary urban planning and development. There is still no common understanding of the concept and what components and dimensions it covers. However, in all definitions digitalisation constitutes one dimension, but the role and function of it is still not clear.In this study I have examined how different stakeholders talk about digitalisation in policy and planning practices of urban development. The aim has been to identify and analyse different repertoires of discourses on digitalisation to advance our knowledge on how goals related to the smart city and digitalisation are put into practice. The results are based on a qualitative and interpretative case study with a social constructionist approach. An analytical framework based on discourse analysis, stakeholder theory and (new) institutional theory has been constructed to analyse the case.Main results show that repertoires on digitalisation are limited in both policy and planning of urban development. In these practices, digitalisation is primarily seen as a means or as a communication infrastructure in relation to two city services/functions; i.e. services related to governance and to environment. Results also show that practices of urban planning and development are institutionalised, where different stakeholders' salience and stakes in urban development and in digitalisation differ, but it is clear that digitalisation is a secondary issue. Implications of these results are that the taken-forgranted discourses in policy and planning practices of urban development limit both practice and research when developing a smart city. FOREWORDInformation Systems Development (ISD) is a research discipline within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Linköping University (LiU), Linköping Sweden. ISD is a discipline studying human work with developing and changing different kinds of IT systems in organisational and societal settings. The research discipline includes theories, strategies and policies, models, methods, co-working principles and artefacts related to information systems development. Different development/change situations can be studied as planning, analysis, specification, design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, maintenance and redesign of information systems and its interplay with other forms of business development, processes of digitalization and innovation. The discipline also includes the study of prerequisites for and results from information systems development, as e.g. studies...

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Seeking urban sustainability on the world stage

Cited by 36 publications

References 21 publications

Urban Form and Sustainable Development: The Case of Urmia City

Urban Form and Sustainable Development: The Case of Urmia City

Identifying Challenges in Implementing Sustainable Practices in a Developing Nation

The Smart City – how smart can ’IT’ be? : Discourses on digitalisation in policy and planning of urban development

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