Streamlining urban housing development: Are there environmental sustainability impacts?

Urban environmental history: what lessons are there to be learnt?

The paper traces the emergence of urban environmental history first in the United States and since the 1990s increasingly also in Europe. It identifies the development of large technical networks which provide cities with water and energy and which serve to take problematic substances and waste out of urban areas as a central theme of this new subfield where scholars from urban history, environ...

RUNNING HEAD: ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY FOR URBAN SUSTAINABILITY Inhabitants’ and Experts’ Assessments of Environmental Quality for Urban Sustainability

The impacts of housing stock transfers in urban Britain (summary)

The transfer of council estates into housing association (HA) ownership has transformed the structure of social housing provision across Britain; in half of English local authorities council housing is a thing of the past. From 1997, stock transfer extended beyond rural shire districts, with urban estates accounting for the majority of properties being handed to new social landlords. This study...

An Ethos of Sustainability: Integrated Sustainability for Urban Development

Curitiba, Brazil has become an international model for sustainable development and social regeneration. Its success has been despite a diminutive budget and rather has depended on creative, multi-dimensional solutions that solve multiple problems simultaneously. This paper analyzes Curitiba’s urban parks and public transportation policies in relation to a holistic definition of sustainable deve...

Sustainability and Urban Dynamics: Assessing Future Impacts on Ecosystem Services

Sustainable management of a region’s critical and valued ecosystem resources requires an understanding about how these resource systems might function into the future. In urbanized areas, this requires the ability to frame the role of resources within the context of urban dynamics and the implications of policy and investment choices. In this paper we describe a three-step approach to assessing...