Rethinking sustainable urban development: Towards an integrated planning and development process


Autoria(s): Yigitcanlar, Tan; Teriman, Suharto
Data(s)

2015

Resumo

A city is the most dramatic manifestation of human activities on the environment. This human dominated organism degrades natural habitats, simplifies species composition, disrupts hydrological systems, and modifies energy flow and nutrient cycling. Sustainable urban development is seen as a panacea to minimise these externalities caused by widespread human activities on the environment. The concept of sustainable urban development has been around over a considerably long-time as the need to adopt environmentally sustainable behaviours made the international community commit to it. However, to date such development has not been achieved in large scales anywhere around the globe. This review paper aims to look at the sustainable urban development concept from the lens of planning and development integration to generate new insights and directions. The paper reports the outcome of the review of the literature on planning and development approaches—i.e., urban planning, ecological planning, urban development, sustainable urban development—and proposes a new process to support the efforts for achieving sustainable urban development—i.e., integrated urban planning and development process. The findings of this review paper highlights that adopting such holistic planning and development process generate a potential to further support the progress towards achieving sustainability agendas of our cities.

Formato

application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/65971/

Publicador

Springer

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/65971/1/Maintext_IJEST_revision2_20131208.pdf

DOI:10.1007/s13762-013-0491-x

Yigitcanlar, Tan & Teriman, Suharto (2015) Rethinking sustainable urban development: Towards an integrated planning and development process. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 12(1), pp. 341-352.

Direitos

Copyright 2014 Springer

Fonte

School of Chemistry, Physics & Mechanical Engineering; Science & Engineering Faculty

Palavras-Chave #120504 Land Use and Environmental Planning #120507 Urban Analysis and Development #ecosystem consideration #integrated urban planning and development process #sustainability #sustainable urban development #urban development process #urban planning process
Tipo

Journal Article