An experiment in poverty reduction began in 1998 in the city of Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria (estimated 1999 population 163,000), where, without the remittances from relatives abroad, an estimated 90% of the population lived below the poverty line of $1.00 (U.S.) per person per day. Central to the experiment was whether poverty can be dramatically reduced through a city consultation process that seeks to...

The wisdom of ‘smart’ development increasingly shapes urban sustainability in Europe and beyond. Yet, the ‘smart city’ paradigm has been critiqued for favouring technological solutions and business interests over social inclusion and urban innovation. Despite the rhetoric of ‘citizen-centred approaches’ and ‘user-generated data’, the level of stakeholder engagement and public empowerment is sti...

Research from Indonesia, especially on Jakarta as a metropolitan city is published only limitedly at an international level. This research that is a small pilot study on urban metabolism is one of few studies on the city. The purpose of study is to introduce urban metabolism, which can be used to analyse the city policies and initiatives from the perspective of urban sustainable development in ...

Parking spaces play a vital role in the transportation system. Parking policies ensure the efficient of the transportation system and the management of traffic demand. Illegal parking practice can hamper sustainability of transportation system. This paper attempts to analyze the illegal parking behavior in Jeddah city, Saudi Arabia. Car parking in the city of Jeddah is largely uncontrolled and ...

in recent century, sustainability has been the most important feature especially in economic, social and environmental issues. so that it has always been the main concern of regional, national and even international planners as the consequent challenges were the main threat to achieving sustainable development of human society. in this study, all aspects of sustainability including environmenta...

City identity can be examined from a number of political, economic and cultural perspectives including the way it has been perceived by residents and outsiders. While residents derive the city’s identity from their experience of it, for outsiders various branding schemes used to sell the city have an important role in constructing the identity. Sometimes the images viewed from the inside and th...

Sustainable urban development has been receiving growing concerns from both city managers and urban residents across the world. As a yardstick of sustainability, urban carrying capacity (UCC) is an important conceptual underpinning that guides local governments in promoting sustainable urban development. However, existing studies still lack consensus not only on the theoretical aspects, but als...

The objective of this paper is to discuss concepts of landscape sustainability in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Phoenix is situated in the greater Salt River Valley of the lower Sonoran Desert in the southwest United States. In this paper I use the ecological frameworks of ecosystem services and resiliency as a metric for understanding landscape sustainability. An assessment of landscape susta...

One of the main reasons of unsustainability of city development in Iran is that planners and mayors have not almost been able to create connections between different dimensions of a city. Sustainability indicators are evaluation tools of cities operation applicable in living environmental, economical, and social aspects. The purpose of this paper is to offer a framework including the descriptio...