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  • Open Access
4 Citations
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The Urban Sustainability of the Egyptian Capital

  • Ahmed Mohammed Nasr,
  • Bakr Hashem Bayoumi and
  • Wael Mohammed Yousef

27 January 2023

In the last decade, the urban management of the Egyptian capital adopted a comprehensive vision for its urban development sectors. Sustainability indicator results issued by a number of international institutions showed that the Egyptian capital&rsqu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
96 Citations
23,413 Views
20 Pages

Sustainable Urban Development: A Review of Urban Sustainability Indicator Frameworks

  • Denis Michalina,
  • Peter Mederly,
  • Hans Diefenbacher and
  • Benjamin Held

20 August 2021

The issue of urban sustainability is currently exceptionally up to date, and the sustainable development of cities has become an important topic on the political level. Many cities in the world are facing acute challenges concerning growing dangers t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,527 Views
13 Pages

Interpreting Sustainability for Urban Forests

  • Camilo Ordóñez and
  • Peter N. Duinker

1 June 2010

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 interpreta...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,643 Views
27 Pages

30 November 2022

Sustainability is a multidisciplinary developing science, and sustainable urban development focuses on socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental dimensions. Sustainable urban development is considered as a form of development covering urban spaces....

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,319 Views
7 Pages

19 May 2023

This short opinion article critically comments on some current mainstream trends, characteristics, and biases in urban social sustainability research literature. Through identifying some gaps regarding geography, sub-topics, and study approaches, and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
162 Citations
18,442 Views
16 Pages

8 November 2017

As the world rapidly urbanizes, there is much focus on achieving sustainability outcomes within cities. Accomplishing this goal requires not only envisioning sustainable cities and implementing strategies, but it also demands assessing progress towar...

  • Review
  • Open Access
219 Citations
31,291 Views
27 Pages

Urban Resilience for Urban Sustainability: Concepts, Dimensions, and Perspectives

  • Xun Zeng,
  • Yuanchun Yu,
  • San Yang,
  • Yang Lv and
  • Md Nazirul Islam Sarker

22 February 2022

Urbanization is a continuous process for a city’s economic development. Though rapid urbanization provides a huge employment opportunity for people, urban threats also increase proportionately due to natural and man-made hazards. Understanding...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
13,585 Views
15 Pages

Sustainability of Urban Infrastructures

  • Marjana Šijanec Zavrl and
  • Mine Tanac Zeren

14 September 2010

The scope of the paper is to overview the different approaches for evaluation of urban infrastructure sustainability. In this context, urban infrastructure covers transportation, energy, water, sewage and information networks as well as waste managem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,564 Views
25 Pages

10 November 2021

Urban sustainability has been revealed as one of the key elements in achieving global sustainability. There is a wide range of indicators in this field; however, sustainability indicators have not been exempt from criticism, in both their formal aspe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
19,008 Views
19 Pages

4 September 2020

Achieving sustainability goals is complex and requires policy coherence; yet effective action for structural change has been elusive partly because global issues must be primarily addressed locally. Agreements such as the UN Global Goals and the New...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,483 Views
20 Pages

28 April 2025

To enhance sustainability in urban design, it is essential to consider urban planning and morphology. This study explores the relationship between key morphological layers and the degree of sustainability in urban forms. Understanding how morphologic...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,936 Views
8 Pages

Brazilian Urban Policy: Sustainability as a Driving Force

  • Felipe Teixeira Dias,
  • Marcos Esdras Leite,
  • Priscila Cembranel,
  • José Baltazar S. O. de Andrade Guerra and
  • Robert S. Birch

Defining global themes such as Urban Policy, Urban Sustainability, and even the Right to the City (RTTC) is fundamental to stimulating and establishing a continuous dialogue with the scientific community, mainly in the social sciences. Thus, understa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,830 Views
20 Pages

Urban Sustainability Development in Morocco, a Review

  • Lahouari Bounoua,
  • Mohamed Amine Lachkham,
  • Noura Ed-Dahmany,
  • Souad Lagmiri,
  • Hicham Bahi,
  • Mohammed Messouli,
  • Mohammed Yacoubi Khebiza,
  • Joseph Nigro and
  • Kurtis J. Thome

During the last decades, Morocco has recorded substantial urbanization and faced challenges related to urban sprawl and encroachment on fertile lands. This paper reviews several studies assessing urban sustainability development in 27 Moroccan urban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,506 Views
18 Pages

Framework for Assessing Urban Energy Sustainability

  • Assed Haddad,
  • Ahmed Hammad,
  • Danielle Castro,
  • Diego Vasco and
  • Carlos Alberto Pereira Soares

19 August 2021

The social, economic, and environmental impacts associated with fuels used to power cities cause the sustainability of energy produced and consumed in our urban environment to be constantly challenged. In order to address the issue of urban energy su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,441 Views
19 Pages

Experimentation Platforms as Bridges to Urban Sustainability

  • Sven-Volker Rehm,
  • Shane McLoughlin and
  • Giovanni Maccani

23 April 2021

Despite immense efforts to realize diverse visions of the ‘smart city,’ municipalities still face manifold uncertainties of how governance and the tools of governance can best support public and regional value creation for achieving urban sustainabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,476 Views
24 Pages

16 December 2018

Following the continuous development characterized by large-scale constructions, Chinese urban development has shifted to the promotion of refined urban space quality. Urban sculpture, an important part of public arts, has been receiving increased at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,535 Views
28 Pages

Urban Sustainability Through the Lens of Urban Fabric Typologies: A Case Study of Cuenca, Ecuador

  • Francisco Calderón,
  • Daniel Orellana,
  • María Isabel Carrasco,
  • Johnatan Astudillo and
  • María Augusta Hermida

23 November 2024

Understanding the relationship between urban fabrics and sustainability is essential for addressing contemporary urban challenges, as urban fabrics provide critical morphological and socio-economic data that enhance our understanding of the performan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,129 Views
23 Pages

24 December 2024

Urban forests, as part of the green infrastructure systems in cities, are also important components of natural systems. To ensure the sustainability of urban forests, ecological, social, and economic dimensions must be addressed holistically. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,625 Views
30 Pages

The concept and practice of sustainability in urban planning have gained worldwide significance since the early 2000s and have become increasingly mainstream in the policymaking process. Adopting global frameworks, such as the United Nations Sustaina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
156 Citations
22,179 Views
19 Pages

Urban Sustainability and Resilience: From Theory to Practice

  • Patricia Romero-Lankao,
  • Daniel M. Gnatz,
  • Olga Wilhelmi and
  • Mary Hayden

25 November 2016

Urbanization and urban areas are profoundly altering the relationship between society and the environment, and affecting cities’ sustainability and resilience in complex ways at alarming rates. Over the last decades, sustainability and resilience hav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,458 Views
16 Pages

Teaching Urban Sustainability: A Study Abroad Perspective

  • Geoffrey Buckley,
  • Tawny Paul,
  • Hamish Kallin and
  • Harriet Cornell

5 September 2019

Since 2011 more than 100 students from Ohio University have travelled to Edinburgh, Scotland, to study history, urban planning, and sustainability. In this paper we recount the genesis of this highly successful program, situate it in the broader lite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,793 Views
13 Pages

17 April 2022

Leisure agriculture is an essential part of urban agriculture in Shanghai. However, sustainable development for urban leisure agriculture has reached a critical point. In this paper, we attempted to analyze the sustainability status of 22 urban leisu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,083 Views
13 Pages

22 April 2023

Urban sustainability has become a critical issue in the past few decades due to rising urbanisation and mounting environmental problems. This article aims to develop a novel formula for assessing urban sustainability in Uzbekistan, a country with ver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
8,640 Views
18 Pages

29 March 2018

Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment Tools (NSA tools) are fast becoming the principal framework for urban planners and developers for promoting urban sustainability. The majority of NSA tools promote a specific type of urban development that effe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
10,674 Views
25 Pages

2 February 2019

This study examines the concept of sustainability and livability at the neighborhood level in a low-density city such as Doha. In its current form, Metropolitan Doha, Qatar’s capital and where 80% of the population resides, is neither sustainab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,694 Views
15 Pages

Urban Creative Sustainability: The Case of Lublin

  • Alina Betlej and
  • Tomas Kačerauskas

6 April 2021

The proposed research aims to investigate the concept of creative urban sustainability. We asked, what are the factors conditioning creativity in spaces where cultures meet in cities and how do they stimulate urban sustainable development. The empiri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
12,821 Views
21 Pages

A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance

  • Jan Landert,
  • Christian Schader,
  • Heidrun Moschitz and
  • Matthias Stolze

24 March 2017

A growing number of people live in cities. Urban food systems and their impacts on ecosystems and socio-economic conditions are becoming increasingly important. To address the challenge of making urban food systems more sustainable, a rising number o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,329 Views
18 Pages

20 April 2025

This paper shows a case study on a novel community-based sustainability planning framework that balances environmental, social, cultural dimensions for a high-density urban setting. The case study presents a community-driven “Four-Zero” s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,865 Views
17 Pages

Urban Sustainability and the SDGs: A Nordic Perspective and Opportunity for Integration

  • Emma Terama,
  • Juha Peltomaa,
  • Maija Mattinen-Yuryev and
  • Ari Nissinen

Urban sustainability has been used to cover multiple aspects of urban development. Terms related to sustainability have been generously used to advance ubiquitous and hard-to-measure targets not least in response to global and national sustainable de...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
14,325 Views
19 Pages

Impact of Car Sharing on Urban Sustainability

  • Vasja Roblek,
  • Maja Meško and
  • Iztok Podbregar

18 January 2021

The article gives us an insight into the key issues of car sharing and its impact on urban sustainability. A selection of 314 articles published in peer-reviewed journals from the Scopus database were analysed using Leximancer 5.0 for Automated Conte...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
12,316 Views
15 Pages

Rapid urbanisation all over the world poses a serious question about urban sustainability in relation to food. Urban agriculture can contribute to feeding city dwellers as well as improving metropolitan environments by providing more green space. Aus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
16,024 Views
22 Pages

29 September 2014

Sustainable communities are promoted as a desirable policy goal and, in particular, local authorities are encouraged to contribute to climate change mitigation through urban planning. Furthermore, recent research takes a broad perspective on the envi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,298 Views
25 Pages

20 November 2020

Urban sustainability is most often measured using a series of social, economic, and ecological indicators. Assessment methods for urban sustainability typically factor in the ecological dimensions of greenspace, such as biodiversity maintenance, stor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,830 Views
25 Pages

28 December 2016

A main challenge for the design and building of green and smart cities is the redevelopment of existing built environments. This research investigates the usefulness of urban district sustainability evaluation systems in informing and guiding urban r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
13,440 Views
22 Pages

28 October 2024

Urbanization growth poses various challenges, such as congestion, pollution, and resource consumption, prompting city planners and governments to adopt smart systems to manage these issues more efficiently. Despite widespread adoption, there is no co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,289 Views
28 Pages

Sustainability of Urban Green Spaces: A Multidimensional Analysis

  • Veljko Dmitrović,
  • Svetlana Ignjatijević,
  • Jelena Vapa Tankosić,
  • Radivoj Prodanović,
  • Nemanja Lekić,
  • Aleksandra Pavlović,
  • Miroslav Čavlin,
  • Jovana Gardašević and
  • Julijana Lekić

29 April 2025

Urban green spaces (UGS) play a crucial role in enhancing the quality of life in urban environments by offering a wide range of ecological, psychological, socio–cultural, and economic benefits. This research addresses the multidimensional impac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,134 Views
36 Pages

13 November 2024

Urban memory involves the re-creation of a city’s physical, historical, social, and cultural elements in the memories of its inhabitants. However, urban transformation and commercial tourism-oriented projects may threaten the continuity of this...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,341 Views
20 Pages

15 April 2023

Urban soil security depends on the means and social practices that enable multiple generations to maintain and improve soil resources. Soils are pivotal to urban sustainability yet seem absent from international planning advisories for sustainable ur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,796 Views
15 Pages

Measuring Urban Low-Carbon Sustainability in Four Chinese Cities

  • Mingshun Zhang,
  • Yitong Yang and
  • Chun Xia-Bauer

7 November 2021

Practices and research on measuring traditionally urban sustainability abound, therefore the challenge now is related to how the urban carbon issues are included into current measuring methods, thus there is a need to develop methods for measuring ur...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,706 Views
14 Pages

Challenges to Promote Sustainability in Urban Agriculture Models: A Review

  • Luiza Vigne Bennedetti,
  • Paulo Antônio de Almeida Sinisgalli,
  • Maurício Lamano Ferreira and
  • Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira

Urban agriculture (UA) can be used as an action to promote sustainability in cities and inform public health policies for urban populations. Despite this growing recognition, its implementation still presents challenges in countries in the Global Nor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
12,233 Views
15 Pages

Assessment of Sustainability Development in Urban Areas of Morocco

  • Lahouari Bounoua,
  • Najlaa Fathi,
  • Meryem El Berkaoui,
  • Laila El Ghazouani and
  • Mohammed Messouli

In Morocco, the last census counted 70% of houses in cities, with seven cities accounting for 25% of the total population and 41% of the urban population. This paper questioned the sustainability indicator in Moroccan cities using a novel methodology...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,427 Views
21 Pages

26 July 2022

The large concentration of the world’s population in cities, along with rapid urbanization, have brought numerous environmental and socioeconomic challenges to sustainable urban systems (SUS). However, current SUS studies focus heavily on ecolo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
11,037 Views
35 Pages

22 June 2022

The study of peri-urbanization attracted attention in the final quarter of the 20th century, due to the pace it acquired worldwide and the implication that urbanization and overall settlement patterns have on social sustainability and development. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
16,395 Views
14 Pages

30 December 2015

This paper examines the planning paradigm shift related to the contested “urban renaissance” mega-project in Downtown Seoul (Korea). Similar to other global cities, over the last few decades, different mega-projects have been successfully implemented...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,790 Views
17 Pages

19 August 2017

Sustainable urbanization is a challenge to human beings in the modern era of technology. Cities all over the world are facing several problems due to urbanization and industrialization. Urban problems could be assessed through development of indices...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,994 Views
30 Pages

Advancing Sustainability in Urban Planning by Measuring and Matching the Supply and Demand of Urban Green Space Ecosystem Services

  • Man Li,
  • Tao Chen,
  • Juan Li,
  • Guangbin Yang,
  • Linglin Zhao,
  • Qiangyang Cao,
  • Li Yang and
  • Yang Sun

25 November 2024

As global cities rapidly develop, the realization of sustainable urban development has become a pressing global concern. As a critical component of the urban built environment, urban green spaces are essential for maintaining the sustainability of ur...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,643 Views
14 Pages

15 March 2019

There is an ever increasing interest in identifying the links between architecture and public health and in how urban design can positively influence the latter. The psychology of sustainability and sustainable development represents an innovative re...

  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
12,358 Views
36 Pages

1 February 2013

Over 50% of world’s population presently resides in cities, and this number is expected to rise to ~70% by 2050. Increasing urbanization problems including population growth, urban sprawl, land use change, unemployment, and environmental degradation,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
12,954 Views
17 Pages

8 September 2022

Cities are hubs of social and cultural activity, and culture is key to what makes cities creative, and sustainable. The Post-2015 Development Agenda has prioritized culture and how it may help people and communities create the future they desire. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,626 Views
19 Pages

26 June 2018

Urban Food Production (UFP) initiatives are expanding worldwide to enhance urban food production while contributing to the development of sustainable cities in a three-bottom perspective (environment, society, economy). Although the sustainability as...

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