scholarly journals Towards a More-than-Human Approach to Smart and Sustainable Urban Development: Designing for Multispecies Justice

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 948
Author(s):  
Walter Fieuw ◽  
Marcus Foth ◽  
Glenda Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Human Sensibility ◽  
Infrastructure Investments ◽  
Urban And Environmental Planning ◽  
Environmental Infrastructure

The term ‘sustainability’ has become an overused umbrella term that encompasses a range of climate actions and environmental infrastructure investments; however, there is still an urgent need for transformative reform work. Scholars of urban studies have made compelling cases for a more-than-human conceptualisation of urban and environmental planning and also share a common interest in translating theory into practical approaches and implications that recognise (i) our ecological entanglements with planetary systems and (ii) the urgent need for multispecies justice in the reconceptualisation of genuinely sustainable cities. More-than-human sensibility draws on a range of disciplines and encompasses conventional and non-conventional research methods and design approaches. In this article, we offer a horizon scan type of review of key posthuman and more-than-human literature sources at the intersection of urban studies and environmental humanities. The aim of this review is to (i) contribute to the emerging discourse that is starting to operationalise a more-than-human approach to smart and sustainable urban development, and; (ii) to articulate a nascent framework for more-than-human spatial planning policy and practice.

A Voice for Children and Young People in the City

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Wilks ◽  
Julie Rudner
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Urban And Environmental Planning

AbstractA major challenge for researchers and urban planning practitioners is how to obtain meaningful and influential contributions on urban and environmental planning activities from children and young people within the constraints of adult policy and practice. The key elements of this challenge concern traditional methods of communication between ‘experts’ and children and young people in rationalist planning settings, versus emerging research in relation to children's and young people's views and agency around civic participation. This article will address the work of a number of researchers and practitioners who have grappled with the inherent tenions of making planning practice and urban design more inclusionary, while facilitating and respecting children and young people's civic participation. This article also advocates the advantages and strengths of their participation in planning and urban design processes.With a focus on two exploratory programs developed by the authors in the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria, this article will demonstrate how the sharing of knowledge and skills between planning and design professionals and children and young people can lead to more meaningful and influential contributions from them. The programs examined were informed by leading practice both in Australia and internationally, and have assisted to develop children and young people's sense of spatial competence, and their confidence and efficacy in their local environment, contributing ultimately to their wellbeing. They have also supported the establishment of youth leadership groups with the confidence and skills to contribute to ongoing local government urban and environmental planning activities.

scholarly journals THE CITY AS A SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEM

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Bokareva ◽  
A. Dmitrieva
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Functional System ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Sustainability Management ◽  
The City

The city is a multi functional system that combines the entire system of socio-ecological and economic development to fall territorial entities. In this regard, the formation of the principles of sustainable development of the city in modern conditions is one of the most important tasks. The article provides an understanding of the concept of sustainable urban development. The role of environmental planning in achieving sustainable urban development is justified. The principles of urban sustainability management are revealed.

scholarly journals Problems and Prospects of Urban Environmental Management in Pakistan

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (4II) ◽  
pp. 507-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Aslam Khan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Parasitic Infections ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
User Charges ◽  
Environmentally Sound ◽  
Environmental Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Environmental Problems

Discussions on environmental conditions often assume that urbanisation contributes to the degradation of the environment. However, urbanisation per se is not detrimental to the environment. Concentrations of population and economic activities through urbanisation offer opportunities in providing environmental infrastructure and health services costeffectively, because of economies of scale. It also provides opportunities to effectively internalise environmental costs; because concentration of economic activities reduces user charges and costs of tax collection, enforcement, and wastes management, which are essential to environmental protection. Nevertheless, while providing opportunities the process of urbanisation also generates environmental pressures. A nation that is unable to utilise the opportunities and alleviate the pressures through integrated environmental, economic and physical planning finds that mismanaged urbanisation can pose enormous environmental and economic problems that become increasingly difficult to solve with time. Unfortunately, Pakistan is one of the countries which have not managed the process of urbanisation effectively. This paper, after tracing the urbanisation trends in Pakistan, discusses the existing and emerging environmental impacts and risks. The country is at the stage of risk transition where modern risks caused by industrial and traffic pollution, such as chemicals, heavy metals and noise, combine with the traditional risks such as bacteriological and parasitic infections caused by inadequate infrastructure facilities particularly water supply and sanitation. The paper also analyses the responses to urban environmental problems in terms of approaches to sustainable urban development. Finally, it outlines the holistic policy directions to environmentally sound and sustainable urban development, including institutional, regulatory, economic and participatory measures.

scholarly journals Topical issues of improving the competence of local governments in the field of urban planning in the context of municipal reform

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 118-124
Author(s):  
Oleh Kurchin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Municipal Reform

The article is devoted to the study of topical issues of improving the competence of local governments in the field of urban planning activities in the context of municipal reform. It is argued that the implementation of the European legal standards of urban planning activities of local self-government should be dialectically combined with the general adaptation of Ukrainian land, urban planning, architectural legislation to universal and European principles and norms, in particular with respect to the proper standardization of state architectural and construction control with the transfer of most of the relevant powers to level of executive bodies of local self-government. Thus, European legal standards of urban planning of local governments are framework, creating a certain conceptual standardized model of representative and executive local institutions as urban entities, which is filled with standardized, objectified and filled with specific functions and powers at the national level through the adoption of special institutions, legislative acts. At the same time, the optimal in the current conditions of constitutional decentralization form of implementation of European legal standards of urban planning of local governments is the transformation of the basic principles of sustainable urban development, embodied in universal and regional (European) sources of recommendation. It is emphasized that local self-government today is an integral part of the implementation and livelihood of the population, acting within a single policy of public authorities of each country. In today's world, local self-government is also the basis for the development of democracy, the formation of a common interest and responsibility of residents in the development and resolution of issues at the local level, including urban planning as one of the most important key issues of local importance. At the present stage, the role of international (universal and regional) legal standards for the regulation of urban planning is constantly growing, which requires the development of appropriate ways to implement such standards in the national legal system. It is argued that integrated urban development policies can help to improve these factors, for example, through the cooperation of all participants, support for the creation of network models and the optimization of local structures. The policy of integrated urban development promotes social and intercultural dialogue.

Smart Urban Profiling And Management – New Insights For Enhancing Innovative And Sustainable City Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
Rebecca Oberreiter
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Management Model ◽  
City Management ◽  
City Marketing ◽  
City Development ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Framework Conditions ◽  
Fresh Impetus ◽  
The City

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.

scholarly journals Reducing Water Losses for Sustainable Urban Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 603 ◽  
pp. 042021
Author(s):  
Simona Popa-Albu ◽  
Mihaela Pisleaga ◽  
Adrian Tenchea
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Water Losses
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