The Sustainable City: An Analytical-Deliberative Approach to Assess Policy in the Context of Sustainable Urban Development

Rapidly changing framework conditions for city development such as globalization, demographic trends, deindustrialization, technological developments or the increasing urbanization as well as the economic, social and political changes are profound and change our urban life. This leads, that the cities of tomorrow will differ essentially from today´s city principles. Therefore innovative, strategically wise and quick action becomes a criterion for success. Here, more than ever, local conditions and requirements must be taken into account as well as global framework conditions. The responsible parties have to set the course so that the “City” remains competitive and sustainable in the future. Therefore, innovation processes and sustainable strategies for dealing with the diverse and complex agendas of a city in dialogue with those who are responsible for it must be initiated and management systems established so that new things can develop continuously and systematically. This work illustrates how the boundaries created to manage and market future liveable and sustainable city destinations are the root of the practical and academic problems that trouble city management these days. This paper aims to develop the new integrated Smart Urban Profiling and Management model, which presents a new integrated approach for city marketing as an instrument of sustainable urban development. In this way, comprehensive research was conducted to evaluate if the holistic city marketing concept that integrates elements of smart city strategies and adaptive management is a more suitable instrument and integrative process than conventional city marketing in order to improve the sustainable urban development. Therefore, in this work, the designed “Smart Urban Profiling and Management model” for city management introduces an alternative and holistic perspective that allows transcending past boundaries and thus getting closer to the real complexities of managing city development in dynamic systems. The results offer the opportunity to recognize the city and consequently allow to developing successful strategies and implementation measures. This study targets to contribute to this endeavor in order to produce new impulses and incitements in the city management field and shall provide a fresh impetus for a new understanding of city marketing as the initiator of development processes, mobilization and moderator in concerning communication and participation processes. This paper is written from a perspective addressing those responsible for the city- management, city- & urban marketing and development.

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Coordinating sustainability, globalization and urban intelligence with the Habitat III and 2030-SDG agendas: the challenge of sustainable urban development in cities

Cuadernos de Administración ◽

10.25100/cdea.v36i66.8438 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 36 (66) ◽

pp. 36-52

Author(s):

Henry Caicedo Asprilla

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Urban Development ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Sustainable City ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Conditioning Factors ◽

Analysis Techniques ◽

Development Goals

Currently, there are difficulties in coordinating the three determinants of urban development in cities: Globalization, Urban Intelligence, and Sustainability. This makes it difficult to implement the agendas of the Sustainable Development Goals and Habitat III. This article features an introduction, discussion on the tensions among the determinants of Sustainable Urban Development (SUD). The idea of a sustainable city, which is defended in this research, is proposed thereafter, which seeks to establish the degree of consistency between these three factors. The methodology is described next on: 83 cities were sampled and the simple and multiple correspondence analysis techniques were applied. Then, we move on to the results, which found that while the three phenomena are congruent, it is not the same in every city. It was also evidenced that the greater the urban intelligence of a city, the more sustainable it will be; and the less sustainable it will be if it is oriented only towards globalization. Finally, it is concluded that if a city wants to be sustainable, it must make efforts to coordinate a joint agenda with all three conditioning factors to balance them out and neglect none.

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Reframing the Notion of Sustainable Urban Development in the Middle East

Open House International ◽

10.1108/ohi-04-2016-b0006 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 39-47

Author(s):

Samer Bagaeen

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Urban Development ◽

Abu Dhabi ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Real Estate Development ◽

Economic Systems ◽

Master Planning ◽

Sustainable City ◽

Downtown Redevelopment

In offering reflections on key themes affecting sustainability in the Middle East, this paper explores how an imprecise concept such as sustainability can, co-constituted with other powerful political and economic systems, such as nation building, drive forward new agendas for urban development. Rather than focus on specific empirical findings, the paper reflects instead on some of the assumptions underpinning competing approaches to sustainability highlighting multiple alternate visions of urban sustainability. In doing so, the paper engages with the literature on sustainability, master-planning and real estate development inviting the reader in the process to think about and ponder on the role of vision in the process. The reader is therefore invited to consider the aggregate impact of individual master planned projects on the urban fabric of fast growing cities and to think about how projects such as Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and the Msheireb downtown redevelopment in Doha demonstrate how sustainability and nationalist discourses are intertwined offering competing visions of what a sustainable city might become while at the same time hiding urban inequalities in plain sight with the help of the ‘forward looking’ facade of sustainability.

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CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CITY THROUGH URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDIAN CONTEXT

10.36106/ijar/1417974 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

Sarbani Bera

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Urban Development ◽

Urban Form ◽

United Nations Environment Programme ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Sustainable City ◽

Sustainable Environment ◽

Indian Cities ◽

City Form

The sustainable urban development is a great venture in India. It discusses the concept importance of sustainable development mainly the sustainable urban development. Sustainable urban development and sustainable city form take the responsibility of all this and try to reduce the bad effects of climate change, depletion of non-renewable resources and degradation of the urban environment. There are three issues - which are meeting the deciencies in service, how to manage the services in an environment friendly way and the need to make them more equitable. For activities locations need to be created which can be reached 1) without moving, by walking, by cycling 2) By public transport and 3) by energy efcient cars. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN-HABITAT, the sustainable cities programme are designed to foster the planning to move cities in the developing countries toward sustainability. They organized different programme for the sustainable urban development. One idea about sustainable urban form is that density needs to be 'high'. Adensity that is suitable for USA or cities of Europe may not be feasible for already dense cities like Hong Kong and Indian cities. All these things about sustainable environment and climate change have resulted in experiments and debates over city form that is sustainable.

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Sustainable City Branding

Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry - Global Place Branding Campaigns across Cities, Regions, and Nations ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0576-1.ch008 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 162-181 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hande Begüm Bumin Doyduk ◽

Elif Yolbulan Okan

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Urban Development ◽

Urban Governance ◽

Marketing Strategies ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

City Management ◽

City Branding ◽

Slow Movement ◽

Sustainable City ◽

Slow Food

As marketing strategies are utilized for city management, entrepreneurial modes of urban governance started to be applied. In this chapter, an emerging city branding trend, Slow City branding will be analyzed in the light of sustainability. As the cities start to resemble each other, the identity of the cities which is defined by the local authenticity diminishes. The philosophy of slowness inspired other social and economic movements like slow food, slow tourism and slow city. Slow movement first in the form of Slow Food then Slow City/Cittaslow enables sustainable urban development. “Cittaslow” empowers cities to differentiate from other cities and form their identity by supporting local crafts, tastes, producers and promoting healthy and sustainable life. In this study, a comprehensive literature review about slow city movement is covered. Moreover, Seferihisar, the first slow city in Turkey is analyzed in terms of Cittaslow principles. At the last part of the study, a model is proposed summarizing the principles of slow city branding.

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The Quest for an Adequate Test: Justifying the Sustainable City as an Order of Worth

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12114670 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (11) ◽

pp. 4670

Author(s):

Meg Holden

Keyword(s):

Urban Development ◽

Social Research ◽

Well Being ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

New Order ◽

Sustainable City ◽

Building Projects ◽

Sustainable Building ◽

Adequate Test ◽

Pragmatic Sociology

The sustainable city represents an ideal of good and just living that has inspired urban development work for at least 25 years. While criticized by many for its scientific, social and political vagueness, the concept of the sustainable city has nonetheless continued to frame material and political efforts in urban redevelopment. From a perspective grounded in the pragmatic sociology of critique, this article takes this phenomenon as evidence of an international movement to generate not just political pronouncements or technical fixes, but a new order of worth, from the concept of the sustainable city. After presenting the pragmatic sociology of critique and the application of this body of social research as it pertains to better understanding sustainable urban development, we reflect on the factors that challenge the acceptance of the sustainable city as an order of worth, or as a mode and manner of justifying significant decisions in the public domain, recognizable and understandable to a majority. For efforts to create the sustainable city to justify themselves, socioculturally, in this way, the work demands a clear test of worthiness. This article illustrates the search for an adequate test through a review of two distinct efforts to generate new systems of assessment for sustainable building projects, and points out the contrasting nature of these two tests: one which aims to be accessible to thoroughgoing public debate fit to transform a context toward a political discourse of urban sustainability as well-being; the other that interprets the need for a test as affirmation of expertise related to the unfolding climate emergency.

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From Industrial City to Sustainable City. The Northern Suburbs of Paris Yesterday and Today

European Spatial Research and Policy ◽

10.2478/esrp-2013-0009 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 27-40 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Boris Lebeau

Keyword(s):

Urban Development ◽

Social Problems ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Sustainable City ◽

Political Will ◽

Industrial City ◽

Almost Everywhere ◽

The Social ◽

Functional Transformations

Former industrial suburbs, which are now the object of economic and functional transformations almost everywhere in Europe, are suitable testing grounds for implementing a more sustainable urban development. The case of the northern suburbs of Paris, which we will look at here, shows that there is no lack of political will or regulatory tools for imagining and planning this sustainable city. However, the social problems that affect these suburbs are a definite impediment to its realization.

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Perencanaan Kota Secara Komprehensif Berbasis Hukum Integratif Menuju Pembangunan Kota Berkelanjutan (Comprehensive Urban Planning Based On Integrative Law Towards Sustainable Urban Development)

JURNAL CITA HUKUM ◽

10.15408/jch.v2i2.2315 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 213-224

Author(s):

Teuku Nazarudin

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Urban Development ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Ecological Sustainability ◽

Economic Sustainability ◽

Sustainable City ◽

Interdisciplinary Science ◽

Spatial Plan

Abstract: Comprehensive Urban Planning Based on Law Integrative Towards Sustainable Urban Development. This study is aimed to analyze the dynamics of sustainable urban development and comprehensive urban planning based on integrative law. Using a qualitative approach to the normative juridical method. The analysis showed that the dynamics of sustainable urban development not only implies ecological sustainability or biophysical, but also the sustainability of socio-cultural and economic sustainability. A comprehensive urban planning based on integrative meaningful spatial law as an interdisciplinary science is the mindset that is comprehensive and integrated. Implementation of integrative law to a sustainable city spatial plan guarantees that every citizen has access to freedom in activity, the equality and rights among themselves. Abstrak: Perencanaan Kota Secara Komprehensif Berbasis Hukum Integratif Menuju Pembangunan Kota Berkelanjutan. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dinamika pembangunan kota berkelanjutan dan perencanaan kota secara komprehensif berbasis hukum integratif. Menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode yuridis normatif. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa dinamika pembangunan kota berkelanjutan tidak sekedar mengandung pengertian keberlanjutan ekologis atau biofisik semata-mata, melainkan juga keberlanjutan sosio-kultural dan keberlanjutan ekonomis. Perencanaan kota secara komprehensif berbasis hukum integratif bermakna tata ruang sebagai ilmu interdisiplin adalah pola pikir yang bersifat menyeluruh (comprehensive) dan terpadu (integrated). Penerapan hukum integratif terhadap suatu rencana tata ruang kota berkelanjutan menjamin bahwa setiap warga kota memiliki akses terhadap kebebasannya dalam beraktifitas, adanya persamaan derajat dan hak di antara sesamanya. DOI: 10.15408/jch.v2i2.2315

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Sustainable City Branding

Advertising and Branding ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1793-1.ch046 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 1013-1032 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hande Begüm Bumin Doyduk ◽

Elif Yolbulan Okan

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Urban Development ◽

Urban Governance ◽

Marketing Strategies ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

City Management ◽

City Branding ◽

Slow Movement ◽

Sustainable City ◽

Slow Food

As marketing strategies are utilized for city management, entrepreneurial modes of urban governance started to be applied. In this chapter, an emerging city branding trend, Slow City branding will be analyzed in the light of sustainability. As the cities start to resemble each other, the identity of the cities which is defined by the local authenticity diminishes. The philosophy of slowness inspired other social and economic movements like slow food, slow tourism and slow city. Slow movement first in the form of Slow Food then Slow City/Cittaslow enables sustainable urban development. “Cittaslow” empowers cities to differentiate from other cities and form their identity by supporting local crafts, tastes, producers and promoting healthy and sustainable life. In this study, a comprehensive literature review about slow city movement is covered. Moreover, Seferihisar, the first slow city in Turkey is analyzed in terms of Cittaslow principles. At the last part of the study, a model is proposed summarizing the principles of slow city branding.

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An Integrated Importance-Performance Analysis and Modified Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach to Sustainable City Assessment

10.21203/rs.3.rs-207767/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Say Wah Lee ◽

Ke Xue

Keyword(s):

Performance Analysis ◽

Urban Development ◽

Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽

Rating Scale ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Future Research ◽

Importance Rating ◽

Sustainable City ◽

Analytic Hierarchy ◽

Hierarchy Process

Abstract Sustainable urban development has been a popular subject in urban studies and related disciplines. Owing to the challenges faced by cities worldwide to accommodate the growing urban populations, it is becoming ever more important for innovative research on sustainable urban development to be performed to help cities achieve sustainability. This study develops and tests an integrated approach to sustainable city assessment, which is a combination of importance-performance analysis (IPA) and modified analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Questionnaires designed following the IPA concept were distributed to residents of three cities. The importance scores from the collected data were factorized and the relative scores of the factors were then converted into pairwise comparisons using a formula developed in this study. The derived criteria weights were applied to the performance scores to evaluate the cities’ relative overall sustainability performance. This approach replaces the AHP’s 1–9 scale with the IPA’s importance rating scale, which is a Likert scale, in the questionnaire. Based on the findings, implications and future research suggestions were provided.

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