Dissertations / Theses: 'Urban renewal Sustainable development'

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Tam, Wing-man Connie. "Urban renewal and urban sustainability." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21041386.

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Tam, Wing-man Connie, and 譚詠文. "Urban renewal and urban sustainability." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43894033.

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Chung, Ho-wai Edwin. "Sustainable urban development at Sai Ying Pun : teahouse /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25945695.

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Yeung, Ka-lai. "Sustainable urban revitalization attractiveness and significance of Sai Kung Town /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B39558484.

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Kan, Ka-lo. "Urban redevelopment and urban form transformation in Hong Kong a sustainable development perspective /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43250774.

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簡嘉露 and Ka-lo Kan. "Urban redevelopment and urban form transformation in Hong Kong: a sustainable development perspective." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43250774.

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Leyva, Andrew. "Implementing Sustainable Design: A Case for Mixed Use Development." The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621604.

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Sustainable Built Environments Senior Capstone Project
The era of Urban Sprawl created a wave of single family residences moving farther and farther away from city centers. This also caused a series of unintended problems that affect our own health and the health of our natural environment. This paper seeks to find the most effective methods of implementing sustainable, mixed use development in our existing communities, as well as any mistakes that should be avoided in the process. This paper will examine successes and failures of previously implemented designs in order to inform and make recommendations for future designs and developments. The aim of this study is to identify factors that contribute to the success of a mixed use development and also encompass all aspects of sustainability.

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Chung, Ho-wai Edwin, and 鍾浩維. "Sustainable urban development at Sai Ying Pun: teahouse." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985713.

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Yeung, Ka-lai, and 楊家麗. "Sustainable urban revitalization: attractiveness and significance of Sai Kung Town." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39558484.

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Chan, Kim Ching. "Reclaiming the anonymous geographies of sustainable development in Hong Kong : a power/space approach." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2010. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1155.

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Ngxata, Thabile. "The impact of the Mdantsane urban renewal programme on socio-economic development." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/12593.

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Urban Renewal which originates in the concept of Local Economic Development (LED) has in recent years gained much global acceptance as a strategy to improve certain areas that are poorly developed in order to improve the quality of lives of the local residents. South Africa have adopted the Urban Renewal approach and ever since, a number of national centres have been targeted for urban renewal activities. The Buffalo City Municipality (BCMM) implemented the Mdanstane Urban Renewal Programme (MURP) which is essentially the case study of this research. Despite the government instituting the Integrated Development Planning (IDP), Buffalo City still remains one of South Africa’s poorest metropolitan areas, with a relatively high unemployment and crime rate compared to other metropolitan cities in the country (Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality,2012). The study, therefore, sought to empirically analyse the effectiveness of the URP as an initiative of Integrated Development Planning (IDP) particularly on how it has addressed socio-economic pathologies such as poverty and inequality rampant in the area of study. The Mdantsane Urban Renewal Programme was used to monitor and evaluate the impact it had on the communities and the municipality. The study used a mixed methods or triangulation approach as both qualitative and quantitative techniques were used in determining the effect of the MURP on local development as well as in exploring the different perceptions and challenges facing the programme. The data that was gathered was analysed both quantitatively using frequency tables and graphs, and qualitatively based on the key themes that emerged. The research established that whilst the MURP has scored some gains in refurbishing the area of study, there are still various challenges inherent in the MURP such as its non-inclusiveness, lack of transparency, accountability and the lack of real benefits accruing in the local communities. Thus, this research recognised a need for a more inclusive and pro-poor urban development framework that promotes local citizen participation, accountability, sustainability and equity in resource distribution and allocation, in order to improve the livehoods of the local people in Mdantsane.

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Lee, Cheuk-hei, and 李卓禧. "Culture-led regeneration: an opportunity for sustainable urban regeneration in Hong Kong?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B49885315.

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Culture-led regeneration policy has become a global trend in many major cities worldwide (UNCHS, 2004; Miles and Paddison, 2005). While overseas governments such as the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia have directed their regeneration policies to encourage the creative class and industries; Hong Kong is again left behind. Some scholars suggest that the culture-led strategy can act as the twenty-first century driver for regeneration, able to better preserve social networks and capital, and hence bring greater benefit to the local residents (Szeto, 2007). However, the methods of promoting culture-led regeneration in the Hong Kong context are rarely discussed. In addition, to what extend urban planning could help to facilitate creative class, and its possible impact on local residents is yet to be studied. This dissertation therefore has a two-way focus; on one hand, it seeks to address the research gap on how culture-led regeneration can be implemented in Hong Kong; on the other hand, it contributes to the academic debate by exploring the mechanism of capitalising culture in a regeneration project in order to maximise the ways at which local residents can truly benefit. It is often assumed that the integration of cultural production, consumption and community art programmes bring about the greatest benefits for the local economy, and hence benefit the locals by ‘trickle down’ effect (Binns, 2005). However, this dissertation argues that the community and its institutions play an important role in distributing the wealth created by culture-led redevelopment. While gentrification as well as the displacement of local residents, is usually observed in culture-led regeneration, progressive community planning and community ownership of the ‘Common’ can help in breaking the monopoly of rent and fixed capitals, to the benefit of local residents. The case of Hoxton – with the success of its local organizations in reducing the pressures of gentrification – is studied alongside with a case of similar background, Noho, Hong Kong, to explore new research and enlighten a possible new policy direction of culture-led regeneration in Hong Kong. Both cases are led by artists and creative industries in the area with the aim of revitalizing poor local economies. In light of this, the two cases are compared to firstly address the research gap on the community role in a sustainable culture-led regeneration, and then to enlighten a possible new policy direction of culture-led regeneration in Hong Kong.
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Alam, A. F. M. Ashraful. "Social practice, spatial forms and sustainable urban regeneration: the case of Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46734880.

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Yeung, Po Sheung. "Towards a socially sustainable urban renewal in Hong Kong : the case of Moon Lok Building rehabilitation." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2012. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1427.

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Wong, Pui-sai Kitty, and 黃沛茜. "Sustainable communities and urban revitalization: case studies of two community parks in Wan Chai." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3126136X.

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Klimkowski, Mark. "Silent urbanism a manifesto for self-organization in the built environment /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2009. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Law, Wai-yi Winnie, and 羅惠儀. "Sustainable urban regeneration and social impact assessment: a case study of Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31245584.

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Sin, Wai-see Wendy, and 冼蕙思. "Towards a sustainable community: an evaluation of the role of community participation in the redevelopmentprojects of Wan Chai and Kwun Tong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44401838.

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Abd-Elaal, Mohammad. "Renewable energy and sustainable urban development in hot arid regions - case of Egypt development concepts and implementation strategies for new settlements /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2008. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:93-opus-38784.

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Mbusi, Pamela Boniwe. "An investigation of the role of the ward councillors in relation to the National Urban Renewal Programme : a case study of the Motherwell, Nelson Mandela Bay." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1019706.

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This study sought to investigate the extent to which Ward Councillors executed their Constitutional and developmental mandate to enhance basic service delivery in relation to the National Urban Renewal Programme (NURP). For practical purposes, a case study approach was chosen, using Motherwell in Nelson Mandela Bay as the specific area of focus. Motherwell was declared by the national government as one of eight nodal zones for urban renewal in South Africa. The Preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, states that the injustices of the past have to be addressed and those who suffered for justice and freedom in the country should be honoured. The results of the 1994 national and 1995 local government elections marked a political breakthrough in South African politics. The new democratic and social reconstruction agenda necessitated the transformation of the legislative framework in various areas. In this study, the role of Ward Councillors was interrogated and investigated to establish whether the Urban Renewal Programme had benefited the Motherwell community in Nelson Mandela Bay in accessing basic services. In this regard, a legislative framework regulates and guides municipal Councillors in performing their developmental duties to achieve local government developmental outcomes. The legislative prescriptions that underpin the operations and activities of municipal Councillors in delivering public services to citizens and in ensuring the effective and efficient implementation of government policies generally, and the Motherwell Urban Renewal Programme in particular, were examined and interrogated. An overview of the National Urban Renewal Programme was presented. The legislative framework underpinning the Urban Renewal Programme was also reviewed. The study concluded with a number of recommendations based on the findings of the literature, legislative reviews and an empirical survey.

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Hoeltl, Andrea, Roman Brandtweiner, Tania Berger, and Romana Bates. "Urban Growth and Energy Supply in Africa: The Case of Ethiopia." WITPress, 2018. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6728/1/UG18015FU1.pdf.

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Ethiopia is rapidly urbanising. Similar to other urban areas in developing countries, major issues in Ethiopia include a high level of income inequality, lack of formal employment opportunities and deeply rooted poverty, tenure insecurity, poor infrastructure, and limited access to electricity and energy. Frequently settlers end up in impoverished urban squatters and slums which do not offer them even the most basic infrastructure and hence lack to provide them with the perspectives they came for. Onward migration to farer off destinations such as the EU member states thus often remains as sole option for those caught in such urban poverty traps. Although the issue of informal urban settlements is not new to the context of Ethiopian cities, the current rapid urban growth rates are exposing urban rental markets as well as infrastructure and energy supply to considerable pressure. The paper investigates the respective situation in Ethiopia and demonstrates some best practice examples. In the context of Ethiopian cities, energy production and distribution have been highly centralised under state entities and the scope for exploring local/business driven and decentralised systems has been limited. Transitions can be implemented towards sustainability and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals if collective identification and structuring of issues along with collective envisioning of future is provoked or facilitated.

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Norell, Clara. "Renewable energy – and water system in South Africa, as part of RDP-housing projects. Economical, technical and ecological comparison." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-20887.

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SammanfattningDenna studie syftar till att undersöka tekniska möjligheter, kunskaper samtviljan till ett byggande för hållbar utveckling i SydafrikaFörfattaren har genom MFS (mindre fältstudie) undersökt möjligheternaför att skapa mer hållbara hus ekologiska hus, för att sedermera kunna skapa"ekobyar" istället för som det idag, fortfarande byggs enligt den förlegadeapartheidarkitekturens struktur; "one house one plot township".The Department of Housing har sedan 1994 byggt över 2.6 miljoner husför över 14 miljoner hushåll. Dessa hus benämns RDP-hus (renewaldevelopment programme) och byggs för att levereras till den absolut fattigastebefolkningen med en viss mängd gratis elektricitet (75kwh) liksom vatten (8klkranvatten, l lkl avloppsvatten).I Sydafrika ägs, projekteras och genomförs RDP-husprojektprogram av deseparata kommunerna på uppdrag liksom subventionerade pengar frånregeringen. RDP-husens standard är oehört låg och totalakostnaden/subventionen ligger på R70555 I hus med en tillhörande mindre markjord/trädgård. Hushåll med gemensam inkomst på under R3500/månad har rättatt ansöka om ett RDP-hus hos konununen. När ett hushåll tilldelats ett RDPhus,ses det efter 8 år som ägare till huset och är därmed även ansvarig förunderhåll och skötsel av huset. Hushåll med gemensam månatlig inkomst påunder R2020/månad kan även ansöka om subventionerad distribution av vattenochelektricitet. Hushållen har rätt till:• 8kl kranvatten• 1 lkl avloppsvatten• service såsom sophämtning• 75kwh elektricitet.(NMMB, 2009; Schalk Potgieter, 2009)Studien kommer endast fokusera på nämnd inkomstgrupp med inkluderandesubventioner.När det subventionerade vattnet är förbrukat påbörjas en vattenräkning.Dessa räkningar kan sällan betalas utan avskrives istället efter en viss tid förindividen. Istället får kommunen stå för kostnaderna. P.g.a. okunskap om attvatten inte är en förnybar källa, leder det ofta även till stora slöseri er av vatten."Renewable energy – and water system in South Africa, as part of RDP-housingprojects. Economical, technical and ecological comparison. Clara Norell, 2010 "Enligt Stan Grunewald, vatten- och elektricitet avdelning i Port Elizabeths (PE)kommun, har PE ett årligt "slöseri/svinn" av vatten som kostar kommunen över70 miljoner Rand. (Stan Grunewald, 2009)När den subventionerade elektriciteten förbrukats måste brukareninförskaffa förköpt elkod i jämförelse med kontantkort för mobiltelefon. Harhushållet ingen ekonomisk möjlighet att köpa ny el, leder detta ofta till attmänniskor i nödsituationer kapar elkablar. Dvs. de klipper av en elkabel, oftaden hängande varianten, och drar in den i sitt hus. Detta är livsfarligt, människordör årligen pga. av detta. Det leder även till större elavbrott där stora ytor avelbrukare, trafiksignaler etc. slås ut.Problem med de RDP-hus som byggs idag är således ekologiska,ekonomiska samt säkerhetsmässigt hälsofarliga.Studien syftar till att skapa mer miljövänliga, hållbara samt på lång siktäven mer ekonomiska RDP-hus, därmed även en helt ny fonn avbostadsutveckling i Sydafrikas sk kåkstäder.Studien vill inspirera för samtliga nybyggnationer av RDP-housingprojects att komplettera tillhörande vattentank för uppsamling av vatten (attbrukas för allt utom dricksvatten), solvattenbehållare for uppvännning avvannvatten, gasspis, LED-lampor for inomhusbruk samt separerade toaletter.Där urinen används som irrigation för den privata trädgården och avföringtillsammans med hushållets kompostering, hämtas 1 ggr/vecka, förframställning av gödsel för separat lott som gemensamt används likt enkolonilott.l denna form av husprojekt är det viktigt med intresserade hyresgäster samtkontinuerliga workshops för att få igång en bredare kunskap kring sopor och vårjord. Exempel på workshops:• Jordbruks utveckling• plantskola• sopsortering• kompostering.Studien fokuserar på utformning, design samt val av material för hustypen.Genom att duplicera huset och tillsammans med hjälp av god fysisk planering,med tydliga riktlinjer, workshops samt entreprenörsskapsutbildning, skulle enhelt ny form av sarnhällsutveckling i Sydafrika kunna växa fram.Denna del kommer dock inte tas upp i studien, utan nämns istället som etteventuellt framtida arbetsuppdrag för författaren eller som inspiration för annanelev att ta vid att utföra som examensarbeteStudien undersöker kostnader över en tidsperiod på 15 år, för att jämföramed dagens sk. RDP-hus. En ekonomisk jämförelse, av den nya totalakonstruktionskostnaden med dagens RDP-hus på R77000. Därefter undersöksde två olika husens energiförbrukning över 15 år, för att göra en ekologiskjämförelse samt en kostnadsanalys på energiförbrukningen.Den ekonomiska skillnaden kommer möjligtvis inte särskilja sig mycketför den privata brukaren, däremot förhoppningsvis för kommunen och därmedäven för regeringen. Det konuner med största sannolikhet vara en ekologiskrevolutionerande skillnad för den privata brukaren likväl som för kommunenoch även då för hela jorden.Visionen är att mha. nya lösningar kunna minska användning avkolproducerad elektricitet samt kommunalt vatten för att komma till enekonomisk och ekologisk slutsats som visar att kommunen liksom regeringenkan spara miljöresurser liksom pengar. På så sätt kan märkta ekonomiskaresurser istället används till förbättring av hälsa, utbildning samt äldrevård.Visonen med studien är fungera som ett gott exempel och riktlinje, attpresenteras för kommuner i Sydafrika för att förhoppningsvis därefter kunnabyggas som testprojekt i stil med Sakhuluntu Village, Sool Plaatje SocialHousing projects; Hull Street, Moeschoe Village samt Hemporiums k01mnandeHemp Village.Studiens resultat visar på en stor realism i tesen. Vid implementation avvattentank för dagvattenhantering samt SWH för uppvärmning av varmvatten,skulle de Sydafrikanska RDP-hushållen efter en tidsperiod på 15 år bli merhållbara. Således skulle den Sydafrikanska regeringen istället, försubventionering av vatten och elektricitet, kunna subventionera tekniskainstallationer som en del av RDP-husens standard subventioneradekonstruktions kostnad. Ekonomiska och mänskliga resurser skulle dännedistället kunna örornnärkas för förbättring av skol- och hälsosystem. Sydafrikasfolk skulle bli mer självförsörjande och deras hälsostatus skulle förbättras.De ekologiska besparingarna per hushåll blir efter 15 år; 47820 kWhkolproducerad el och 309kl kommunalt vatten. Ekonomiska besparingar perhushåll blir efter 15 år mer än 20000 rand.
SummaryThe aim of the case study is to investigate the possibilities of creating asustainable house within the Renewal Development Programme (RDP) housingprojects of South Africa (SA). RDP-houses are built by the municipalities of SAon order as well as on subsidy grant of the National Government of SA. Ahousehold can apply for three different kind of subsidies from the municipalitieswithin the Assistance to the Poor (ATTP); house, electricity and water (tap andsewage including services).The aim of the case study is to set up an economic cost specification forthe price of building a sustainable RDP-house; including a water tank forrainwater harvesting, Solar Water Heater (S WH) geyser (for heating up warmwater). The house will also include; LED-lighting, gas stove, separated toilets( urine, faeces ), compost of food, a small private garden as well as a separatedagricultural plot for a community with e.g. 100 households. The cost of thehouse will be compared to the cost ofthe RDP-houses that are built today (fixedtotal subsidy: R70555). Thereafter follows an investigation of the ecologicalfootprint, over a 15 year period, to compare the two different RDP-houseoptions. The aim is to create a sustainable house that can be more self sufficientand sustainable; in terms of the energy use and in terms of self sufficiency basedon food securi ty.Although not an economical difference for the people living in the house,but instead for the municipality and by that even for the government, it willindeed be an ecological difference for the user, the municipality as well as forthe environment ofthe world.Since the houses, electricity and water is handed out for free to a certaingroup of the poor population of SA, the municipalities stands for !hese costs. Ifthere could be a more sustainable RDP-housing process, the municipalitiescould instead use these resources on school and healthcare.When "households" and "people" are mentioned in the essay as an averagetenn, it is understood that it is the low income households and the people fromthe average South A frican townships.The results of the studies show a great realism in the thesis. Ifimplementing water tank for rain water harvesting as well as SWH for heatingof warm water, the South African RDP-households could after a period of 15years be more self sustainable. Consequently the SA government could insteadof subsidising water and electricity, consider to subsidies the implementation ofabove mentioned technical equipment as a part of the RDP-housing subsidisedprogrammes. Thereby the municipalities could target economical and humanresources for improvement of school- and health system. The South Africanpeople would be self empowered and their health status would thereby improve.The ecological savings per household after 15 years would be 4 7820k Wh coalproducedelectricity and 309 kl municipal water. The economical savings wouldafter 15 years, per household be more than R20000.

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Tsoi, Yuk. "Sustainable residential community for urban renewal in the old district of Shamshuipo." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31987291.

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Deakin, Mark. "Sustainable urban development." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2011. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/4660.

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This submission for PhD by publication aims to capture, reflect upon, analyse and offer critical insights into how the use of land and exchange of property can help serve the search for sustainable urban development (SUD). This aim is subsequently met by: • hypothesising how the applicant's publications provide a representation of SUD able to get beyond the state-of-the-art and offer a conceptual framework capable of uncovering the positive role land and property can play in sustaining urban development; • reviewing the research undertaken by the applicant to define SUD and develop a framework for analysis, set of protocols and directory of assessment methods to evaluate the sustainability of urban development; • highlighting the possibility there is for the valuation methodologies and investment appraisal techniques underlying the use of land and exchange of property, to be constructive in terms of the relationship their corporate strategies and financial instruments have to the environment; • illustrating how it is possible to compute the informational basis of property management and draw upon the intelligence this offers cities to develop electronically-enhanced services underpinned by e-learning platforms, knowledge management systems and digital libraries, capable of supporting environmental improvements; • showing how the environmental improvements that surface from such developments in turn support the community-based approach to urban regeneration which underlies the UK government's socially-inclusive and participatory venture into ecological modernisation and democratic renewal; • providing examples of where the management of property by cities is intelligent, not only because the environmental improvement supporting their community-based approach to urban regeneration are socially-inclusive and participatory, but for the reason the ecological modernisation and process of democratic renewal underlying these developments meet the sustainability requirement; • reflecting on the contribution this representation of SUD as informational, intelligent, socially-inclusive, participatory, community-based, regenerative, ecological and democratic, makes to what is known and understood about the subject. Together these positive, analytical and constructive examinations of SUD augment into the informational basis of property management and surface as the corporate strategies and financial instruments of the electronically-enhanced service models needed for cities to be intelligent. In particular, the strategies, instruments and eGov(ernment) service models, cities need to be intelligent in valuing the environment and accounting for the socially-inclusive, participatory, community-based, regenerative, ecological and democratic qualities underlying their improvement programmes.

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Darcy, Michael P. "Work / Ethic: A Systemic Approach to Sustainable Urban Renewal." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427899699.

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Wong, Chui-Ying Tracy. "Exploring an alternative operation model for socially-sustainable urban redevelopment in Hong Kong a revisit to Urban Renewal Authority's public-private partnership /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43250828.

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Caparros-Midwood, Daniel. "Spatially optimised sustainable urban development." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3291.

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Tackling urbanisation and climate change requires more sustainable and resilient cities, which in turn will require planners to develop a portfolio of measures to manage climate risks such as flooding, meet energy and greenhouse gas reduction targets, and prioritise development on brownfield sites to preserve greenspace. However, the policies, strategies and measures put in place to meet such objectives can frequently conflict with each other or deliver unintended consequences, hampering long-term sustainability. For example, the densification of cities in order to reduce transport energy use can increase urban heat island effects and surface water flooding from extreme rainfall events. In order to make coherent decisions in the presence of such complex multi-dimensional spatial conflicts, urban planners require sophisticated planning tools to identify and manage potential trade-offs between the spatial strategies necessary to deliver sustainability. To achieve this aim, this research has developed a multi-objective spatial optimisation framework for the spatial planning of new residential development within cities. The implemented framework develops spatial strategies of required new residential development that minimize conflicts between multiple sustainability objectives as a result of planning policy and climate change related hazards. Five key sustainability objectives have been investigated, namely; (i) minimizing risk from heat waves, (ii) minimizing the risk from flood events, (iii) minimizing travel costs in order to reduce transport emissions, (iv) minimizing urban sprawl and (v) preventing development on existing greenspace. A review identified two optimisation algorithms as suitable for this task. Simulated Annealing (SA) is a traditional optimisation algorithm that uses a probabilistic approach to seek out a global optima by iteratively assessing a wide range of spatial configurations against the objectives under consideration. Gradual ‘cooling’, or reducing the probability of jumping to a different region of the objective space, helps the SA to converge on globally optimal spatial patterns. Genetic Algorithms (GA) evolve successive generations of solutions, by both recombining attributes and randomly mutating previous generations of solutions, to search for and converge towards superior spatial strategies. The framework works towards, and outputs, a series of Pareto-optimal spatial plans that outperform all other plans in at least one objective. This approach allows for a range of best trade-off plans for planners to choose from. ii Both SA and GA were evaluated for an initial case study in Middlesbrough, in the North East of England, and were able to identify strategies which significantly improve upon the local authority’s development plan. For example, the GA approach is able to identify a spatial strategy that reduces the travel to work distance between new development and the central business district by 77.5% whilst nullifying the flood risk to the new development. A comparison of the two optimisation approaches for the Middlesbrough case study revealed that the GA is the more effective approach. The GA is more able to escape local optima and on average outperforms the SA by 56% in in the Pareto fronts discovered whilst discovering double the number of multi-objective Pareto-optimal spatial plans. On the basis of the initial Middlesbrough case study the GA approach was applied to the significantly larger, and more computationally complex, problem of optimising spatial development plans for London in the UK – a total area of 1,572km2. The framework identified optimal strategies in less than 400 generations. The analysis showed, for example, strategies that provide the lowest heat risk (compared to the feasible spatial plans found) can be achieved whilst also using 85% brownfield land to locate new development. The framework was further extended to investigate the impact of different development and density regulations. This enabled the identification of optimised strategies, albeit at lower building density, that completely prevent any increase in urban sprawl whilst also improving the heat risk objective by 60% against a business as usual development strategy. Conversely by restricting development to brownfield the ability of the spatial plan to optimise future heat risk is reduced by 55.6% against the business as usual development strategy. The results of both case studies demonstrate the potential of spatial optimisation to provide planners with optimal spatial plans in the presence of conflicting sustainability objectives. The resulting diagnostic information provides an analytical appreciation of the sensitivity between conflicts and therefore the overall robustness of a plan to uncertainty. With the inclusion of further objectives, and qualitative information unsuitable for this type of analysis, spatial optimization can constitute a powerful decision support tool to help planners to identify spatial development strategies that satisfy multiple sustainability objectives and provide an evidence base for better decision making.

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Weaver, Eric R. R. "Sustainable Development Through Urban Agriculture." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6636.

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This document includes three completed publications to represent Urban Agriculture as a ideal solution to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The first publication (Weaver, 2017a) provided in Chapter Two examines the stormwater Best Management Practices (BMP) modelling parameters for the current EPA Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) as the first step to developing Urban Agriculture BMPs. The second publication (Weaver, 2015) provided in Chapter Three highlights how many high-rated scholars have identified agriculture as a critical driver for the planetary systems impacts we find with community development. The third publication (Weaver, 2017b) provided in Chapter Four breaks down a completely new definition for Urban Agriculture, as the foundational works disagree on meaning, resulting in an ambiguous definition. Together, these publications encourage engineers to model Sustainable Development options with green infrastructure (Weaver, 2017a), distinct from the Planetary Systems impacts of other contemporary options (Weaver, 2015), with a greater understanding of the social capital to engage stakeholders in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Weaver, 2017b).

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Au, Wai-cheong Terrence. "Urban design guidelines : their application in urban development and redevelopment in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18153495.

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Au, Si-mi Anna. "A review on problems faced by land development corporation in launching urban renewal programmes." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18812259.

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Tsoi, Yuk, and 蔡昱. "Sustainable residential community for urban renewal in the old district of Shamshuipo." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31987291.

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Woo, Yoon-Seuk. "Housing renewal, travel response and sustainable urban policy : evidence from Seoul, Korea." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418734.

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Au, Kin-bun John. "Searching for a new mode of development Hong Kong Mediatheque /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3198695X.

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Imon, Sharif Shams. "Sustainable urban conservation the role of public participation in the conservation of urban heritage in old Dhaka /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36224091.

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Au, Ngo-suet. "Urban renewal : a way to accumulate capital? /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18033660.

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Hitam, Mizan Bin. "Development policies and the urban kampung : an investigation into urban development policies related to the future of Malaysian urban kampungs with special reference to Malacca." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321289.

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Jonsson, Daniel. "Sustainable Urban Development : Forecasting and Appraisal." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Infrastructure, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-1677.

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Rashed, Haitham Farouk. "Sustainable urban development in historic Cairo." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14591/.

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Heritage is a constituent of the cultural tradition, and an important component of societal and community welfare. This comprehensive vision merges both tangible and intangible dimensions; architectural and historical values. As a result of globalisation, local communities of heritage sites have started to realise the significance of their influencing voices in shaping their lives and futures. Several rehabilitation and development initiatives have been selected for this study to review lessons learned from a variety of methodologies adopted for different historical districts of distinctive urban, political, and socio-economic contexts. Historic Cairo is home to the largest concentration of Islamic monuments in the world and was designated a world heritage site in 1979. Despite historic Cairo's international and national significance, it is highly vulnerable to negligence and deterioration as a consequence of modernisation and rapid changes in urban and cultural lifestyles. Historic Cairo has attracted numerous rehabilitation, preservation and restoration studies, proposals, and projects through governmental, national, and international efforts. These rehabilitation schemes however have lacked the sustainable urban development delivery in this heritage context. Moreover, most of the schemes neglected yet another significant dimension for sustainable urban development considered key to many successful schemes; community participation and involvement in the planning process. The study aims to fill the research gap identified to achieve sustainable urban development in historic Cairo. Thus, a thorough, evidence-based, and theoretically informed methodology has been proposed for developing a tailored intervention that attempts to tackle some of the most critical problems in historic Cairo. The present study adopts a mixed-method strategy with an in-depth case study to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the research problem. This mixed methodology has had the benefit of combining data collection techniques, interviews and questionnaire in order to explore more fully the context of the case study. The combination of methods has provided a basis for exploring how community participation plays a vital role in the success (or failure) of the delivery of a development intervention in historic Cairo. Results from questionnaires and interviews have provided a robust vision of how the bottom-up and top-down views complement each other to provide a foundation for the researcher to build the proposed intervention on. The analysed results are to provide recommendations to decision makers on how best to encourage and incorporate stakeholders' views in future interventions implemented within their rich historic context. Drawing from the survey results along with lessons learnt from other development initiatives in heritage sites, and complementing this with space syntax analysis techniques, a set of tailored design guidelines is generated for sustainable development in historic Cairo. The proposed design guidelines comprise recommendations that have dealt with the five main urban zones of historic Cairo based on the most critically required design principles for sustainable development; diversity and choice, distinctiveness/sense of place, users' needs, self sufficiency/participation, and pollution reduction. The proposed strategy has aimed to consider the development of the physical urban context of historic Cairo whilst enhancing the social, economic, and environmental aspects within the local community to guarantee the sustainable delivery and outcomes of the intervention.

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Thunell, Kalle, and Björn Norström. "Mapping of Sustainable Urban Development Models." Thesis, KTH, Energiteknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-148117.

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Due to urbanisation and an increasing knowledge about the climate change and its potential impacts on the environment and human society, concepts like the Ecocity have become more relevant over time. Various sustainable urban development models and concepts focusing on planning and constructing sustainable communities and cities have been introduced. These models and concepts share some features but are also in many cases focusing on different aspects. This report aims to list models and concepts, used and referred to as tools for urban sustainable development. Further on, an evaluation will be made of six models and concepts based on the four criteria: holistic approach, interconnections of subsystems, adaptability and working procedure. Cases related to the models and concepts will be studied in order to make the analysis and comparison more profound. The evaluation of the final models provides information that all the models discuss sustainability, but with a substantial focus on the ecological aspect. Interconnections and achieving synergies within subsystems are central and guiding, even though case studies sometimes reveal difficulties making these to work as intended. What seem to be of significance, besides a well-formulated model, are how well expectations from local authorities and policymakers are consistent with the intentions from those behind the model.
I och med urbanisering och en ökad förståelse kring klimatförändringen, och dess negativa konsekvenser på miljön, har begrepp såsom ”The Ecocity” fått allt större spridning globalt. Detta har lett till att flertalet modeller och koncept har utvecklats inom området för hållbar utveckling i stadsområden. Dessa modeller delar samma ideologi, att skapa hållbara samhällen, men deras fokusområden skiljer sig i hur detta ska uppnås. Den här rapporten syftar först och främst till att finna modeller och koncept som används och refereras till som mallar för hållbar stadsutveckling. Slutligen kommer en djupare analys och utvärdering att göras på sex modeller och koncept utifrån fyra kriterier: helhetssyn, sammankopplingar av delsystem, anpassningsförmåga och tillvägagångssätt. Fallstudier som är relaterade till varje modell kommer även att studeras för att göra analysen och jämförelsen av modellerna mer djupgående. Utvärderingen av de utvalda modellerna visar på att alla diskuterar hållbarhet, men med ett betydande fokus mot den ekologiska aspekten. Sammankopplingar och strävan att uppnå synergier mellan delsystem är av stor vikt och oftast vägledande, dock visar fallstudierna på de svårigheter att få de teoretiska modellerna att fungera som avsett. Vad som verkar vara av stor betydelse, förutom en väl formulerad modell, är hur väl förväntningarna från lokala myndigheter och beslutsfattare stämmer överens med ändamålen som modellen vill uppnå.

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Bradley, Karin. "Just Environments : Politicising Sustainable Urban Development." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-10130.

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Chaligha, Leopold Emmanuel. "Sustainable development in Tanzanian urban areas." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/622f77e6-2733-4220-af06-df69b84824d1.

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吳建城 and Kin-shing Ng. "Land acquisition for urban renewal and urban design by Land Development Corporation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31980260.

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Ng, Kin-shing. "Land acquisition for urban renewal and urban design by Land Development Corporation." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25796938.

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黃翠盈 and Chui-Ying Tracy Wong. "Exploring an alternative operation model for socially-sustainable urban redevelopment in Hong Kong: a revisitto Urban Renewal Authority's public-private partnership." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43250828.

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Chau, Chiu-fai Fiona. "Urban regeneration in Hong Kong a neighbourhood revitalisation case study in Sham Shui Po district /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42577160.

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Pang, Mee-yuk Melissa, and 彭美育. "Transformation of Land Development Corporation into Urban Renewal Authority: a case study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31965970.

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Pang, Mee-yuk Melissa. "Transformation of Land Development Corporation into Urban Renewal Authority : a case study /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21038077.

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Cheng, Chuk-man Jessica. "Land reclamation and urban development of Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19184979.

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Huang, Yani Melody. "Sustainable urban conservation a design strategy for the renewal of Zhongshan road historic block in Quanzhou city /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39634310.

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Dorset, William. "Exploring the Paradox of Sustainable Urban Development: Towards Urban Resilience?" Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geography, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6385.

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This thesis explores the paradox that urban development continues down a cost minimisation approach resulting in low-density, car-orientated, energy-intensive urban form even though the social and environmental benefits of creating resilient residential communities through the adoption of collective sustainable urban designs and practices are well known. Fundamentally the thesis is concerned with exploring the barriers to creating resilient residential communities in order to establish pathways towards reducing cities’ vulnerability to peak oil and impacts on climate change To achieve this, the urban governance configurations and development practices at three ‘innovative’ residential development sites were investigated to understand the barriers to constructing sustainable residential communities. The first site was Wigram Skies, Christchurch, New Zealand which is being produced by an indigenous development corporation, Ngai tahu Property. The second is Kirimoko, Wanaka, New Zealand which is being produced by an environmental developer, and the third is Aurora, Melbourne Australia, which is being produced by a government development agency, VicUrban. There is a particular emphasis on developer values and actor interactions, as well as the political and institutional processes that influence the adoption of sustainable water management initiatives and energy efficient designs and concepts at these sites. This provides an understanding of New Zealand’s and Australia’s progress towards ‘urban resilience’. This is a concept that is increasingly being used to provide a longer-term, holistic view of sustainable urban development. Case study analysis was applied as the main method of enquiry to understanding and conducting this investigation. The case studies draw on data gathered from seventeen semi-structured interviews, two focus groups, two fieldtrips and document analysis. The case studies revealed power relations between actors during the development process resulting in internal and/or external ‘silo-thinking’ and design objective conflicts. Council planners’ and urban designers’ knowledge and experience, coupled with developers’ cost and risk minimisation mindset and potential home purchasers’ housing preferences are regarded as the main factors that influence the design and therefore end product of residential developments. The adoption of sustainable water management initiatives at the three development sites was influenced by council plans and developers’ desire to add amenity for marketing purposes. The complexities of design, maintenance and health concerns were the main factors that can influence the adoption of sustainable water management initiatives. There are no mandates that require energy efficient designs or concepts at the three sites and therefore such initiatives shown at two sites (Kirimoko and Aurora) were voluntary design approaches. The reluctance to incorporating such design approaches stems from a current market and psychological resistance to paying for and realising the benefits of active and passive solar design. This thesis suggests that greater political leadership, financial incentives and further research carried out on urban governance configurations, consumer preferences and the economic benefits of sustainable urban design are required to ensure progress towards urban resilience and reduce cities’ vulnerability to peak oil and impacts on climate change.

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