- Title
- Social inclusion and sustainable urban environments: an analysis of the urban and regional planning literature
- Creator
- Landorf, Chris
- Relation
- 2nd International Conference on Whole Life Urban Sustainability and its Assessment: SUE-MoT Conference 2009 (SUE-MoT 2009). SUE-MoT Conference 2009: Second International Conference on Whole Life Urban Sustainability and its Assessment: Conference Proceedings (Loughborough, UK 22-24 April, 2009) p. 861-878
- Relation
- http://www.sue-mot.org/conference
- Publisher
- SUE-MoT, Loughborough University
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- In 2008, the United Nations estimated that for the first time, half the world's population would be living in cities. This is accompanied by predictions that cities will become more violent, unhealthy and socially exclusive. Urban design embodying the principles of sustainable development has been proposed as a means to address these issues but the research linking urban sustainability and socially inclusive communities is limited. This paper seeks to explore how social inclusion is currently being addressed in the assessment of sustainable urban environments. The paper is based on qualitative content analysis of ten recently published urban sustainability studies. The analysis focuses on the contextual use of words associated with social inclusion in each study. Findings indicate that there is agreement on the significance of a socially inclusive environment, but there is limited understanding of how to design and measure it. The paper highlights the difficulties of addressing social inclusivity in the urban design and sustainability assessment process.
- Subject
- social inclusion; sustainability assessment; sustainability indicators; urban regeneration; urban sustainability
- Identifier
- uon:9101
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/920217
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780947974817
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