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Urban Sustainability

2023
Urban sustainability has become increasingly important due to climate change and ongoing urban development. Together with shifting demographics, with more than 50 percent of the population living in urban areas, the combined stressors of global change further necessitate diverse urban stakeholders to engage in dialogues of urban sustainability ...
Heejun Chang, Arun Pallathadkha
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Sustainable Urbanization

2021
Technology is central to our progress, but as Buckminster Fuller pointed out, our technological progress may not always be in the right direction. With up to 80% of the global population living in cities by the mid-century, we need to focus on technology that will create urban environments that are suitable for humanity and not harmful to the planet ...
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Mapping the Knowledge Domain of Smart City Development to Urban Sustainability: A Scientometric Study

The Journal of urban technology, 2020
Smart city development plays an important role in achieving urban sustainability. This paper uses mapping of knowledge domain (MKD) analysis to review 965 studies concerning smart city development and urban sustainability (SCDUS).
Zezhou Wu   +3 more
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Sustainable and inclusive – Evaluating urban sustainability indicators’ suitability for measuring progress towards SDG-11

Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, 2020
The adoption of the sustainable development goals marks a transition in the global sustainability discourse to a growing focus on equity, with urban areas’ role in achieving sustainable and inclusive growth more explicit in sustainable development goal ...
Ryan Thomas, A. Hsu, Amy Weinfurter
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Urban sustainability and counter-sustainability: Spatial contradictions and conflicts in policy and governance in the Freiburg and Calgary metropolitan regions

, 2020
Drawing on empirical research carried out in the metropolitan regions of Freiburg, Germany, and Calgary, Canada, we reposition the sustainability policies of municipalities within a wider regional and relational framework.
B. Miller, Samuel Mössner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sustainable Urbanism

2017
The concept of sustainable development was initially devised on the global stage in institutions such as the United Nations, at the intersection of economic, environmental and social concerns. Urban professionals exchange references across national boundaries that contribute to making urban development increasingly 'green', while its principles ...
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Rethinking urban sustainability using fuzzy cognitive mapping and system dynamics

, 2020
The extant literature reveals a growing need to rethink urban sustainability. Sustainable urban development is becoming more important to city strategic planning since sustainability is a critical aspect of environmental protection, social cohesion, and ...
E. R. G. T. R. Assunção   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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