scholarly journals Educational Illustration of the Historical City, Education Citizenship, and Sustainable Heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5706
Author(s):  
Francesc Xavier Hernàndez-Cardona ◽  
Rafael Sospedra-Roca ◽  
David Íñiguez-Gracia
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Conceptual Organization ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The Sustainable Development Goals identified by the United Nations (2030 agenda) aim to promote sustainable cities, the need to safeguard cultural heritage, and the importance of quality education. Through different projects, the DIDPATRI research group at the University of Barcelona has developed didactic iconographic models on the historical and heritage dimension of cities. Comprehensible proposals have been made by developing unique techniques and using easily accessible technologies. The working hypothesis has focused on the idea that the models of didactic iconography promote the understanding of the history of the city, and this enables educational actions and contributes to the formation of quality citizenship, aware of the importance of heritage, with a view to the sustainability of urban environments themselves. The components and the layout of the iconographic prototypes tested have been developed with the available technological variables, but, above all, they focus on the conceptual organization of the iconographic contents to show. In other words, it places greater emphasis on techniques than on subsidiary technologies for change. The development of different projects has generated models of empirical effectiveness, which methodologically have contributed to improving, in the key of sustainability, the knowledge of historical urban environments and respect for heritage. The case studies considered in this work are two of the most emblematic developed by the DIDPATRI group: the archaeological site of El Born in Barcelona, and the medieval site of La Seu de Urgell, in the Catalan Pyrenees.

scholarly journals A SUSTAINABLE CITY IN THE CONTEXT OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Šlogar ◽  
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Goran Bandov ◽  
Tomislav Čakanić ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Population ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Communities ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Plan ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Development Paradigm ◽  
The City

The concept of sustainable cities is based on a development paradigm that recognizes the rapid growth of urban population and makes an important contribution by forming a global urban plan. Sustainable city is organized in order to emphasize the importance of people and their needs. This paper will define what sustainable city is and show how certain innovative elements have been introduced in Copenhagen in order to achieve city sustainability. In that regard, an overview of innovative urban solutions in the context of environmental protection will be given. A comparative analysis of the achievement of the SDG 11 objective - Sustainable Cities and Sustainable Communities in Copenhagen will be carried out in relation to the other European Union capitals. The aim of this research is to determine whether Copenhagen is a sustainable city and how sustainable cities contribute to promoting the sustainable development goals. Finally, proposals will be made to achieve those objectives for other cities, based on the results achieved by the City of Copenhagen.

Project-Oriented Learning as an Optimal Methodology for the Incorporation of the SDGs in University Teaching: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Miñán-Espigares ◽  
Claudia-Amanda Juárez-Romero
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Innovation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The University ◽  
Quality Learning

The use of active methodologies in the university is a priority to achieve higher quality learning. One of these methodologies with the greatest potential for training in competencies is Project-Oriented Learning (PLA), using it in an innovative way. Associating the use of this methodology with the objectives of sustainable development, which have become even more important since the Pandemic by COVID-19, can be a good idea to achieve a more sustained and situated learning. The aim of this study is to find out to what extent research on teaching innovation with Project-Oriented Learning is associated with the Sustainable Development Goals. A systematic review was carried out as indicated by PRISMA through the following databases: WOS and Scopus. WOS found 15 articles on AoP and 6 on Project-Oriented Learning and sustainability. In Scopus 2 were found in 2019. The main results show that in the University, especially in the branches of engineering, AoP is widely used, however, it is rarely related to SDGs. Among the conclusions, we highlight the need for research on project-oriented learning and sustainable development goals.

Urban equality and the SDGs: three provocations for a relational agenda

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Stephanie Butcher
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Equitable Outcomes ◽  
The City

We live in an increasingly urban, increasingly unequal world. This is nowhere more evident than in cities of the global South, where many residents face deep injustices in their ability to access vital services, participate in decision-making or to have their rights recognised as citizens. In this regard, the rallying cry of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to ‘leave no one behind’ offers significant potential to guide urbanisation processes towards more equitable outcomes, particularly for the urban poor. Yet the SDGs have also faced a series of criticisms which have highlighted the gaps and silences in moving towards a transformative agenda. This article explores the potentials of adopting a relational lens to read the SDGs, as a mechanism to navigate these internal contradictions and critiques and build pathways to urban equality. In particular, it offers three questions if we want to place urban equality at the heart of the agenda: who owns the city; who produces knowledge about the city; and who is visible in the city? Drawing from the practices of organised groups of the urban poor, this article outlines the key lessons for orienting this agenda towards the relational and transformative aims of urban equality.

Introduction: Global Governance through Goal Setting

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norichika Kanie ◽  
Steven Bernstein ◽  
Frank Biermann ◽  
Peter M. Haas
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Governance Strategy

This chapter lays out a research agenda to assess conditions, challenges, and prospects for the Sustainable Development Goals to pursue this aim. First, the chapter discusses goal setting as a global governance strategy. Second, to contextualize the Sustainable Development Goals, it discusses the unique nature of the modern challenges that the Sustainable Development Goals must confront and review the historical and political trajectory of sustainable development governance, including the evolution from a primarily rule-based to a more goal-based system and the experience of the earlier Millennium Development Goals. Third, the chapter reviews the negotiating history of the Sustainable Development Goals. Then, the chapter elaborate on how the chapters are organized to address the three questions that guide the book.

scholarly journals Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals Through the Lens of Urban Resilience: Lessons and Learnings from 100 Resilient Cities and Cape Town

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Croese ◽  
Cayley Green ◽  
Gareth Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Paris Climate Agreement ◽  
The City

Urban resilience is increasingly seen as essential to managing the risks and challenges arising in a globally changing, connected, and urbanized world. Hence, cities are central to achieving a range of global development policy commitments adopted over the past few years, ranging from the Paris Climate Agreement to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, knowledge of the ways in which cities are going about implementing resilience or of how such efforts can practically contribute to the implementation of global agendas is still limited. This paper discusses the experience of cities that were members of the 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) network, an entity pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation. It reviews the resilience strategies developed by 100RC members to show that 100RC cities are increasingly aligning their resilience work to global development policies such as the SDGs. It then draws on the case of the city of Cape Town in South Africa to illustrate the process of developing a resilience strategy through 100RC tools and methodologies including the City Resilience Framework (CRF) and City Resilience Index (CRI) and its alignment to the SDGs and reflects on lessons and learnings of Cape Town’s experience for the global city network-policy nexus post-2015.

Urban densification potentials and energy impacts in Switzerland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Eggimann ◽  
Kristina Orehounig
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Sustainable Urbanization ◽  
Explicit Analysis ◽  
Development Goals

<p>Building sustainable cities, as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals by the UN, requires sustainable urbanization as well as reducing per capita environmental impacts of living in cities. As a result of a growing population and constrained availability of building space, countries such as Switzerland are faced with increasing pressure on their land resources. They will need to considerably densify in existing urbanized areas to prevent urban expansion. Even though Swiss regulation promote inward settlement development and the creation of compact settlements, only limited analysis is available on the densification potentials combined with sustainability implications. We develop a geospatial explicit analysis framework which allows to up-scale the assessment and evaluation of densification potentials for the whole of Switzerland. An energy simulation tool is used for exploring impacts of different densification strategies on a district scale with respect to energy consumption.</p>

scholarly journals Urban Management as a Pedagogical Tool. San José De Cúcuta: Causes, Phenomena and Impacts on Urban Growth

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-20
Author(s):  
Luz Karime Coronel-Ruiz ◽  
Erika Tatiana Ayala García ◽  
Magdiel Daviana Tami Cortes
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The City

In this article the transformation of the territory of San José de Cúcuta, Norte de Santander- Colombia, borderarea with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela during the last twenty years was studied, from a territorialand pedagogical approach based on the analysis of the physical dimensions -environmental, social-culturaland economic-normative, and phenomena such as: scarcity of developable land, limited urban planning andcontrol strategies, migration, informality of the land and risks due to socio-natural phenomena as input in orderto propose aspects and significant strategies for solving problems present in the territory. A mixed inductiveanalyticalmethod was used, by source of documentary data collection. It was found that the city shouldprioritize interventions focused on property sanitation and land formalization. In addition, that with respect tothe physical- environmental and social-cultural dimensions, it is necessary to establish mechanisms for urbanplanning and management in response to the Sustainable Development Goals proposed for Latin Americancities by the United Nations and contemplated in the agenda. 2030 for sustainable development.

scholarly journals CREATING SUSTAINABLE CITIES THROUGH DISASTER RESILIENCE IN TURKEY

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-3/W4 ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
E. Alarslan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Dense Population ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Principles And Standards ◽  
The City

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> By 2050, almost 66 per cent of the world’s population will live in urban areas. While the urban settlements provide better living opportunities for people, they are also tremendously exhausting natural resources. Thus, as one of the 17 sustainable development goals, “sustainable cities and communities” is promoted by the United Nations. Over the course of the last 70 years, Turkey has experienced one of the most significant urbanization experiences in the world. Recently, cities accommodate over 75 percent of the country’s population. Furthermore, they are prone to high disaster risks due to their dense population and construction in Turkey. Of note, the two perilous earthquakes in 1999 (Izmit &amp;amp; Duzce), provided Turkey significant experiences. They gave rise to reviewing the entire disaster mitigation system. Nevertheless, the earthquake in the City of Van (24.10.2011) revealed some deficiencies in the process of implementing disaster mitigation measures. To remedy these deficiencies, the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization (MoEU) prepared a new law on “Transformation of Areas under the Disaster Risks” (Law No. 6306). The law sets out principles and standards of disaster mitigation and process and procedures with respect to areas prone to disaster risks as well as buildings at risks in and out of disaster prone areas. In this paper, the aforementioned experience of Turkey will be reviewed in terms of sustainable cities and communities goal. Furthermore, the relevant implementations will be reviewed with a view to creating better solutions as well as decreasing undesired consequences such as compulsory displacement of people and degradation of urban environment.</p>

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