Editorial: Cities and Sustainable Development

ICT for Sustainable Cities: How ICT can support an environmentally sustainable development in cities. Authors

In this article we focus on the opportunities to use ICT to help cities reach their environmental targets and specifically how ICT can support reduction of energy use. We have developed an analytical framework to be able to identify ICT solutions opportunities that can support cities to decrease the energy use that origin from the inhabitants’ consumption in order to reach climate targets. We u...

Forests and Sustainable Cities

Sustainable Trees for Sustainable Cities

The idea of sustainable cities is linked to an older concept of sustainable plant communities. The theoretical basis for both is a closed system where everything is continuously recycled. Natural resources are renewed rather than depleted. In undisturbed natural areas a kind of sustainability is achieved through the natural cycles of the biosphere. However, this kind of sustainability for trees...

Heterogeneity and scale of sustainable development in cities.

Rapid worldwide urbanization is at once the main cause and, potentially, the main solution to global sustainable development challenges. The growth of cities is typically associated with increases in socioeconomic productivity, but it also creates strong inequalities. Despite a growing body of evidence characterizing these heterogeneities in developed urban areas, not much is known systematical...

islamic ideology , sustainable development & iranian desert cities

examining historical urban fabric of iranian desert cities demonstrates that one of the best response to the natural laws in the establishment of an appropriate built environment for human life, was considered in these settlement principles applied to the establishment of these cities not only did not impose disturbance and damages to the environment but have also granted perfection to matters....