A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
The metropolitan region: from concepts to indicators of urban sustainability
The metropolitan region is regarded as the most appropriate unit to address sustainable urbanism. However, the metropolitan region's building blocks, from region to city to neighborhood to building site, are rarely invoked in recent discussions of urban sustainability. This paper broadens the discourse by defining sustainability as having the enduring qualities of built and natural environments, highlighting the connection of each scale to the sustainability of the metropolitan region as a whole. In addition, I review the implications for indicators and standards that operationally benchmark sustainability in cities and regions. The paper concludes with a discussion that draws on regionalism's better known holistic connotations of urban sustainability, with an emphasis on form, function and the limits of regionalism.
The metropolitan region: from concepts to indicators of urban sustainability
The metropolitan region is regarded as the most appropriate unit to address sustainable urbanism. However, the metropolitan region's building blocks, from region to city to neighborhood to building site, are rarely invoked in recent discussions of urban sustainability. This paper broadens the discourse by defining sustainability as having the enduring qualities of built and natural environments, highlighting the connection of each scale to the sustainability of the metropolitan region as a whole. In addition, I review the implications for indicators and standards that operationally benchmark sustainability in cities and regions. The paper concludes with a discussion that draws on regionalism's better known holistic connotations of urban sustainability, with an emphasis on form, function and the limits of regionalism.
The metropolitan region: from concepts to indicators of urban sustainability
Banai, Reza (author)
2013-03-01
23 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Urban Sustainability and Good Governance in Delhi Metropolitan Region
| Springer Verlag | 2022
Sustainability Indicators and Urban Development
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 2006
Re-thinking sustainability indicators: local perspectives of urban sustainability
| BASE | 2013