The Current Approach of Urban Design, its Implications for Sustainable Urban Development

Dias, Nuwan; Curwell, Steve; Bichard, Erik

doi:10.1016/s2212-5671(14)00968-x

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“… (1) (Allan et al, ; Coaffee, , ; Fitzgerald & Laufer, ; Johnson & Blackburn, ; Malalgoda et al, ; Wilby & Keenan, ); (2) (Bakker & Morinville, ; Cigler, ; Danar & Pushpalal, ; Dias et al, ; Ernstson, , ; Pierdet, ; Schewenius, McPhearson, & Elmqvist, ); (3) (Cousins, ; Ernstson, , ; Ernstson et al, ; Fitzgerald & Laufer, ; Smith et al, ; Wagenaar & Wilkinson, ); (4) (Berke & Campanella, ; Coaffee, , ; Crichton, ; Fitzgerald & Laufer, ; Sharma & Singh, ); (5) (Bosher et al, , ; Cigler, ; Friend et al, ; Sunarharum et al, ); (6) (Galaz, ; Gupta, ); (7) (Galaz, ); (8) (Brown et al, ; Kelman, ; Meerow & Newell, ; Zaidi & Pelling, ); (9) (Hill, ; McPhearson et al, ); (10) (Gupta, ; Horney et al, ); (11) (Kehinde, ; Liu et al, ); (12) (Haigh & Sutton, ; Kapucu, ; Stewart, Kolluru, & Smith, ); (13) (Liu et al, ); (14) (Roberts, ; Sellberg et al, ; Zaidi & Pelling, ); (15) (Gotham, ; Haigh and Amaratunga, ); (16) (Horney et al, ; Liu et al, ); (17) (Horney et al, ; Kapucu, ; Storsjö & Kachali, ); (18) (Kehinde, ); (19) (Berke & Campanella, ; Liu et al, …”

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“…Built environment development can also entail trade‐offs in social and political spheres (Steele & Gleeson, ; Surjan & Shaw, ). While resilience governance requires a more prominent role for communities, there is a risk that governments may use resilience as an excuse to reduce support to communities (Coaffee, , ) or that citizen participation will be used to manipulate local opinion (Dias, Curwell, & Bichard, ). Local users' desire for flexibility and autonomy in how assets are managed may run counter to the desire for certainty in resource management at higher levels of government (Hill, ).…”

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Enabling strategies and impeding factors to urban resilience implementation: A scoping review

Therrien

Usher

Matyas

2019

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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Despite growing interest in urban resilience, there is a significant gap between discourse and the capacity to develop resilience in practice. This scoping review assembles and shares evidence and insights from empirical studies of attempts to implement urban resilience published between 2005 and 2017. More precisely, it seeks to identify enabling strategies, impeding factors and trade-offs in the implementation of urban resilience. Findings are presented along the dimensions of urban resilience detailed in the City Resilience Framework (ARUP/Rockefeller Foundation): Health and Wellbeing, Economy and Society, Infrastructure and Environment, and Leadershipand Strategy (which we present as a cross-cutting theme). While some enabling and impeding factors in implementation are associated with a specific dimension, others are common to all three. Across dimensions, we find that transparent, inclusive and supportive governance reduces the risk of negative impact that resilience implementation will have on communities. Conflicting priorities of managing risk and meeting short-term needs are found to diminish the potential for transformative resilience action. Integrating risk into planning appears as a promising strategy in all dimensions of resilience. Trade-offs are found in resilience implementation, and range from adverse effects associated with infrastructure to power imbalances when the power to implement resilience privileges one system level over another. K E Y W O R D Senabling strategies, impeding factors, implementation, trade-offs, Urban resilience

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Enabling strategies and impeding factors to urban resilience implementation: A scoping review

Therrien

Usher

Matyas

2019

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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“…Wu et al [22] defined urban sustainability as an adaptive process that promoted and maintained a virtual cycle between ecosystem services and human well-being by coordinating ecological, economic, and social actions to respond to changes inside and outside the city. Dias et al [23] argued that urban sustainability was the coordinated development of three critical systems of environment, economy, and society, which provided goals, foundations, and conditions for sustainable urban development. Yang et al [3] believed that sustainable urban development meant dividing urban systems from ecological inputs, social and economic benefits.…”

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Dynamic Evaluation of Urban Sustainability Based on ELECTRE: A Case Study from China

Huang

Xia

et al. 2021

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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Sustainable urban evaluation is an important management tool to grasp the status of urban development in real time and to make policy adjustments. In this study, the evaluation indicator system is constructed from the three dimensions of economy, society, and environment. The ELECTRE (elimination et choice translation reality) model based on information entropy weighting is employed to evaluate urban sustainability. The model applies three-dimensional data to explore the dynamics of sustainable urban development. The spatial measurement model is used to explore the spatial effects of cities. Finally, 17 cities in Henan Province from 2013 to 2017 are used as case studies for urban sustainable development evaluation. The results show that, in 2013–2017, the sustainability of cities such as Zhengzhou, Luoyang, and Sanmenxia was stable at a high level, while the sustainability levels of Kaifeng, Luohe, and Xinyang showed a fluctuating downward trend, and the sustainability levels of Puyang, Nanyang, and Xinxiang showed a fluctuating upward trend. Among the 17 cities, Zhengzhou has the highest sustainability level and its economic and social sustainability levels are significantly better than other cities. Zhoukou is the city with the lowest level of sustainability. In addition, from 2013 to 2016, the level of urban sustainability was not spatially correlated but gradually presented positive spatial correlation and the characteristics of clustering distribution in 2017. The cities such as Zhengzhou, Luoyang, and Jiaozuo are mainly represented by “high-high (H-H)” agglomeration. In contrast, Shangqiu, Zhoukou, and Zhumadian are mainly represented by “low-low (L-L)” agglomeration. This research provides suggestions and decision-making support for promoting urban sustainability.

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“…However, establishing a shared understanding of SUD is challenging due to its multi-dimensional nature (BEQUEST, 2000). The concept of sustainability has become integrated with urban design, and achieving sustainability in this field will provide environmental quality, and social and economic benefits (Dias et al, 2014). The sustainable city, according to the UN, is one where long-lasting social, economic, and environmental developments are achieved (Porio, 2014).…”

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Sustainable Cities: A Proposed Environmental Integrity Index (EII) for Decision Making

Shathy

Reza

2016

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Urban population has been increasing at an unprecedented rate accommodating more than half of the world population in cities. Massive human intervention in the tropical region contributes to loss of environmental integrity amplifying challenges like air pollution, deforestation, water scarcity, local extinction, and destruction of natural landscapes. To shape the international community's attitude toward economic, social, and environmental development regarding environmental integrity different methods-Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), Clean Development Mechanism (CMD)-are introduced. However, these methods have some limitations along with opportunities. This paper reviewed and analyzed existing methods in order to promote environmental integrity in the rapidly growing urban settings. Based on the drawbacks of current methods a new Environmental Integrity Index (EII) is proposed where indicators are selected while considering social, economic, and environmental aspects. The index aims to combine data from field surveys, GIS and remote sensing, and economic and social analysis. We anticipate that this proposed index can support planning for sustainable cities by promoting environmental integrity and balancing biological and ecological components in a highly intricate urban system.

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The Current Approach of Urban Design, its Implications for Sustainable Urban Development

Cited by 35 publications

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Enabling strategies and impeding factors to urban resilience implementation: A scoping review

Enabling strategies and impeding factors to urban resilience implementation: A scoping review

Dynamic Evaluation of Urban Sustainability Based on ELECTRE: A Case Study from China

Sustainable Cities: A Proposed Environmental Integrity Index (EII) for Decision Making

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