Urban sustainability standards: predetermined checklists or adaptable frameworks?

The Configurable Urban Sustainability. In what ways a morphological or configurational approach contributes to our understanding of urban sustainability?

This article introduces the problem of describing urban sustainability due to the lack of well-defined concepts. This lack is one of the problems many authors face when making proposals on how sustainable development in cities can be understood and achieved. It will conclude that urban compactness can best be approached from a configurable point of view, due to that compactness is a topological...

New Frameworks for Urban Sustainability Assessments: Linking Complexity, Information and Policy

Urban water sustainability

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Urban land teleconnections and sustainability.

This paper introduces urban land teleconnections as a conceptual framework that explicitly links land changes to underlying urbanization dynamics. We illustrate how three key themes that are currently addressed separately in the urban sustainability and land change literatures can lead to incorrect conclusions and misleading results when they are not examined jointly: the traditional system of ...

Interpreting Sustainability for Urban Forests

Incisive interpretations of urban-forest sustainability are important in furthering our understanding of how to sustain the myriad values associated with urban forests. Our analysis of earlier interpretations reveals conceptual gaps. These interpretations are attached to restrictive definitions of a sustainable urban forest and limited to a rather mechanical view of maintaining the biophysical ...