Sustainable Development and Quality of Urban Life

Contemporery Urban Development and Sustainable Urban Form

Sustainable settlement is one of the key constituents of sustainable development, and sustainable urban development can be defined in this framework. Emergence of sustainable development as a commonly-used phrase has caused several controversies about urban forms. Today’s urban form is known as a source of environmental problems. Undoubtedly, this phrase has persuaded many of researchers to sea...

Effects of place identity: The quality of urban sustainable development (Case Study: Hafez's Tomb in Shiraz)

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of place identity on the sustainable developmentof urban spaces. Thus, the components of place identity, emotional attachment, place attachment and social bonding havebeen measured in three dimensions of (cognitive) the place identity, (affective) emotional attachment and (behavioral)place attachment and social bond. To measure sustainable dev...

Urban Agriculture and Sustainable Development

The paper provides an updated insight on the role that urban agriculture can play in pursuing the Millennium Development Goals and more specifically MDG 1 and 7, related to poverty reduction, food security, and environmental sustainability. Reference is made to urban agriculture in relation to the recent and important issues affecting the world economy and the environment, regarding climate cha...

Sustainable urban development and geophysics

Urban sustainable development from public participation in urban management

Urban management in any context has a different economic, social and political structure, which is in harmony with the existing models of organization. In spite of these differences, in order to reach a sustainable urban development, several different conferences should be referred to. In the “Brundtland Commission 1987” about urban sustainable development these definitions have been given: “pr...