TY - JOUR

T1 - A systematic review of guiding principles for sustainable urban neighborhood development

AU - Lüderitz, Christopher

AU - Lang, Daniel J.

AU - von Wehrden, Henrik

PY - 2013/10

Y1 - 2013/10

N2 - The proportion of urban population is increasing globally. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental pollution are leading to the urgent need to increase sustainable development of and through cities and their components. Encouraging and enabling sustainable lifestyles of urban inhabitants can be fostered by developing sustainable urban neighborhoods as the nuclei of cities. Numerous approaches exist that define principles for guiding sustainable development processes of urban neighborhoods. However, it remains unclear if these approaches really consider the core objectives that should be achieved and key actions that are involved to move toward sustainability. This study represents the first quantitative review that evaluates the principles for sustainable urban neighborhood development based on the available literature. We thus (i) identify promising approaches that present principles close to core criteria for sustainability and (ii) provide starting points for developing a more robust set of principles by bringing together the examined literature. Furthermore (iii), sustainability aspects that are insufficiently covered are highlighted. Based on the findings (iv) a road map is outlined to encourage further research on the elaboration of a sufficient set of principles for sustainable urban neighborhood development.

AB - The proportion of urban population is increasing globally. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental pollution are leading to the urgent need to increase sustainable development of and through cities and their components. Encouraging and enabling sustainable lifestyles of urban inhabitants can be fostered by developing sustainable urban neighborhoods as the nuclei of cities. Numerous approaches exist that define principles for guiding sustainable development processes of urban neighborhoods. However, it remains unclear if these approaches really consider the core objectives that should be achieved and key actions that are involved to move toward sustainability. This study represents the first quantitative review that evaluates the principles for sustainable urban neighborhood development based on the available literature. We thus (i) identify promising approaches that present principles close to core criteria for sustainability and (ii) provide starting points for developing a more robust set of principles by bringing together the examined literature. Furthermore (iii), sustainability aspects that are insufficiently covered are highlighted. Based on the findings (iv) a road map is outlined to encourage further research on the elaboration of a sufficient set of principles for sustainable urban neighborhood development.

KW - Sustainability Science

KW - District redevelopment

KW - Resilience of neighborhoods

KW - Sustainability assessment

KW - System wide impacts of quarters

KW - Transdisciplinarity

KW - Urban design

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84882938625&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.06.002

DO - 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.06.002

M3 - Scientific review articles

VL - 118

SP - 40

EP - 52

JO - Landscape and Urban Planning

JF - Landscape and Urban Planning

SN - 0169-2046

IS - October

ER -