ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Online ISSN : 1884-5029
Print ISSN : 0915-0048
ISSN-L : 0915-0048
A Survey of Sustainable Cities Studies
Mayuko SHIMIZUKazuhiro UETA
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2006 Volume 19 Issue 6 Pages 595-605

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This paper aims to discuss the definition of urban sustainability and how to realize the concept of sustainable cities into practice based on the survey of sustainable cities studies. Sustainable cities studies in our age have two directions. One direction is the specialization into each topic such as sustainable transport, sustainable housing and sustainable land use. As a result, it may be concluded that it is crucial and necessary for realizing sustainable cities to manage social common capital in urban areas according to the social criteria derived from sustainability principle. The other direction is the synthesization of the concepts of environmental, economic and social sustainability through the collaborative planning process of social common capital. Environmental policy integration which is indispensable for the more comprehensive urban planning can be attained through the reform of urban socio-economic systems. The deliberative democratic and communicative urban planning process involving multi-stakeholders can contribute to foster the institutional capacity to make consensus on the comprehensive urban policy targets for sustainable city. The economic conditions including sustainable urban economic structure are also discussed.
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