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Map of the 10 districts in the Municipality of Copenhagen (the white area in the middle is the municipality of Frederiksberg).
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The paper concerns the development of sustainability profiles for districts in Copenhagen. This work is currently being carried out by the Danish Building Research Institute, the Technical University of Copenhagen, and the municipality of Copenhagen. The aim of the project is to develop a first model for sustainability profiles for districts in Cop...
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... By using remotely sensed data collected with the assistance of GIS, Dewan et al. [45] analyzed the landscape fragmentation in Bangladesh for the period 1975–2005. Jensen [46] demonstrated the sustainability profiles between the districts in Copenhagen city by using a model composed of 20 main indicators across environmental, social, and environmental dimensions. Reddy and Balachandra [47] investigated the sustainable performance of urbanization development in India by using an indicator-based evaluation approach. ...
Urbanization, particularly in developing countries, is a major strategy for development. However, major concerns accompany it, such as air pollution, habitat destruction, and loss of arable land. In responding to these challenges, governments throughout the world have been implementing various policy mechanisms to guide the practice of urbanization towards sustainable development. It appears that there is little research investigating the outcomes of those efforts in implementing sustainable urbanization strategies. This paper provides a profile of sustainable urbanization from a global perspective. Data used for this research cover 111 countries and are collected from the World Bank database and the United Nation database. A ranking list of sustainable performance of urbanization between these countries is produced and discussed. The study suggests that countries at different stages of urbanization have achieved different levels of sustainable performance. The research results provide significant references for future study in the field of urbanization from a global perspective.
... Zellner et al. (2008) address this challenge by developing an assessment framework with two main components: (1) a simple agent-based model of a hypothetical urbanizing area that integrates data on spatial economic and policy decisions, energy and fuel use, air pollution emissions and assimilation, to test how residential and policy decisions affect urban form, consumption and pollution; (2) an information index to define the degree of order and sustainability of the hypothetical urban system in the different scenarios, to determine whether specific policy and individual decisions contribute to the sustainability of the entire urban system or to its collapse. Jensen (2009) in his paper covers the development of sustainability profiles for districts in Copenhagen. This work is currently being carried out by the Danish Building Research Institute, the Technical University of Copenhagen, and the municipality of Copenhagen. ...
Sustainability has emerged as one of the important planning concepts from its beginnings in economics and ecological thinking, and has widely been applied to assessing urban development. Different methods, techniques and instruments for urban sustainability assessment that help determine how cities can become more sustainable have emerged over a period of time. Among these, indicator-based approaches contribute to building of sustainable self-regulated systems that integrate development and environment protection. Hence, these provide a solid foundation for decision-making at all levels and are being increasingly used. The present paper builds on the background of the available literature and suggests the need for benchmarking indicator-based approach in a given urban area and incorporating various local issues, thus enhancing the long-term sustainability of cities which can be developed by introducing sustainability indicators into the urban planning process.
... Over recent years several research projects have compiled the state of the art in SUD evaluation tools either reviewing them (Cremasco 2007, Jensen et al. 2007, Levett-Therivel 2004, McCreadie et al. 2004 or creating SUD evaluation frameworks (Curwell et al. 2007, Bordeau 2004) that integrate them. Other sources used to feed an initial pool of SUD evaluation tools were references in professional and institutional planning resources and research projects such as CRISP (http://crisp.cstb.fr/database.asp: ...
... This last possibility is actually very common amongst SUD evaluation practice and is suggested by some of the reviewed tools, with recommendations on how to adapt them with custom indicators, weights or benchmarks. The DPL tool for example, is specific to the Dutch context but has been adapted for use in Copenhagen (Jensen, 2009). ...
The aim of this paper is to identify and compare sustainable urban development (SUD) evaluation tools suitable to use at the urban neighbourhood scale during the design phase of the development process. Twelve tools are selected and analysed in terms of structure, format and content, the latter focusing on how the evaluation indicators address the dimensions of urban form, accessibility and the neighbourhood’s spatial context. From this analysis it is possible to identify some general trends. However, the selected tools represent a very diverse set with no common standards, varying in the background principles, the topics addressed and the outputs produced. Furthermore, the tools are largely specific to a specific geographic and institutional context and to a type of project, and for that reason the customisation of indicators and benchmarks is generally encouraged. As a consequence urban design teams have to decide between using whatever tool is already available for the project’s specific context or customising the tool that presents the most relevant format and set of principles.
