Urban Sustainability Profiling: A Case Study from Far North Queensland, Australia

2017 ◽  
pp. 457-474
Author(s):  
Colin J. Macgregor
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Far North

scholarly journals The Threshold of Urban Sustainability within the Traditional Cities: Traditional Alnajaf city as a case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 1058 (1) ◽  
pp. 012055
Author(s):  
Hussam S. O. Adelphi ◽  
Sabeeh Lafta Farhan ◽  
Haitham A. H. Alshamari
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sustainability

The role of the local government in China's urban sustainability transition: A case study of Wuxi's solar development

Cities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 117 ◽  
pp. 103294
Author(s):  
Fangzhu Zhang ◽  
Calvin King Lam Chung ◽  
Tingting Lu ◽  
Fulong Wu
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Transition

Identifying Design Interventions in Cities for Urban Sustainability

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohit Arora ◽  
Felix Raspall ◽  
Arlindo Silva
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Demolition Waste ◽  
Material Reuse

Cities have been the focus of recent sustainability and climate change mitigation efforts primarily because of unprecedented urban growth and ever-increasing resources consumption. A worrying trend has been the ever-decreasing life of buildings in cities because of premature building obsolescence. Premature building obsolescence has been cited as the major driver of demolition waste which accounts for more than 40% of total waste generated annually. This waste stream poses a bigger challenge as the pressure on natural resources increases with urban growth. A traditional way of looking at the urban sustainability has been from the perspective of the environmental sciences and waste management methods. Analyzing urban areas with design science perspectives could provide novel insights to improve existing resource consumption patterns and transform sustainability growth in cities. This study focuses on the problem of demolition waste arising from the premature building obsolescence in cities. It applies a design research methodology framework for identifying existing problems associated with demolition waste and generating strategies to transform cities into more sustainable urban systems. In the problem clarification phase, a detailed literature review was supported with stakeholder’s interviews to identify the state-of-art for building demolition process and demolition waste. Research was further extended to descriptive study-I phase to carry out a demolition case study and generate support tools to enable transformation in the existing scenario for achieving a desired state. Singapore, a dense city state of South-East Asia has been taken as a case study in this research. Results show that applying design research methods could help open-up a new dimension to solve urban sustainability challenge for built environment. It highlights that material reuse could lead to significant improvement in the built environment sustainability but the challenge associated with realization of material reuse practice needs to be addressed. Descriptive study-I concludes with the strategies on creating a reuse market through entrepreneurial innovation and an alternative material supply chain of secondary materials for regional housing demand. These results highlight the role of design research methods for tackling complex systems level problems in cities.

Ngs dust emissions caused by the climate change: A case-study of a mine in Russia’s far north

2021 ◽  
pp. 122-133
Author(s):  
D.V. Makarov ◽  
A.V. Svetlov ◽  
A.A. Goryachev ◽  
O.T. Konina ◽  
V.A. Masloboev
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Dust Emissions ◽  
Far North

scholarly journals Utilization of urban sustainability approaches to deal with ancient cities: a case study of Hit Castle, Iraq

2018 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 03017
Author(s):  
Thaer Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
Modern Style ◽  
A Site

This research aims to highlight the current situation of some Iraqi ancient cities by taking the Hit Castle as a case study. It is one of the oldest cities in Iraq. Due to the previous circumstances that Iraq has one through, this city was ignored and not looked after. Furthermore, due to the expensive land in this city, many old houses were demolished and rebuilt in a modern style. In order to conserve this ancient city, the urban sustainable approaches are suggested to be used. For this purpose, a study was made and a site observation was carried out. Based on that, it was found that this city could be redeveloped/ rehabilitated by employing the urban sustainability approaches and concepts. Important recommendations have been identified and the governmental bodies will be invited to conserve the ancient cities using these recommendations as guidelines.

scholarly journals Unravelling the role of green entrepreneurs in urban sustainability transitions: A case study of China’s Solar City

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (14) ◽  
pp. 2901-2917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Yu ◽  
David Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Solar Water Heater ◽  
Sustainability Transitions ◽  
Water Heater ◽  
Solar Water ◽  
Institutional Contexts

This paper aims to understand the role of green entrepreneurs in urban sustainability transitions. We propose an analytical framework combining transition approaches and green entrepreneurship from a relational lens. It includes four processes: emergence of green entrepreneurs, multi-scalar interest coordination, empowering through anchoring, and struggling with the regime at the urban scale. This framework is illustrated through an empirical analysis of the role of green entrepreneurs in the development of the solar water heater industry in China’s Solar City. The analysis unravels how the local institutional contexts and multi-scalar relations empowered local green entrepreneurs to become system builders for urban transitions.

scholarly journals Smart Urban Planning: Evaluating Urban Logistics Performance of Innovative Solutions and Sustainable Policies in the Venice Lagoon—the Results of a Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Mazzarino ◽  
Lucio Rubini
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Venice Lagoon ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Transport Capacity ◽  
Urban Network ◽  
Urban Freight

Currently, remarkable gaps of operational, social and environmental efficiency and overall sub-optimization of the logistics and mobility systems exist in urban areas. There is then the need to promote and assess innovative transport solutions and policy-making within SUMPs (Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans) to deal with such critical issues in order to improve urban sustainability. The paper focuses on the case study of the Venice Lagoon, where islands—despite representing a relevant feature of urban planning—face a tremendous lack of accessibility, depopulation, social cohesion and they turn out to be poorly connected. By developing an original scenario-building methodological framework and performing data collection activities, the purpose of the paper consists of assessing the feasibility of a mixed passenger and freight transport system —sometimes called cargo hitching. Mixed passenger and freight systems/cargo hitching are considered as an innovative framework based on the integration of freight and passenger urban systems and resources to optimize the existing transport capacity, and thus, urban sustainability. Results show that the overall existing urban transport capacity can accommodate urban freight flows on main connections in the Lagoon. The reduction in spare public transport capacity, as well as in the number (and type) of circulating freight boats show—in various scenarios—the degree of optimization of the resulting urban network configuration and the positive impacts on urban sustainability. This paves the way for the regulatory framework to adopt proposed solutions.

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