Sustainable urban development: A review on urban carrying capacity assessment

Wei, Yigang; Huang, Changqing; Lam, Pti; Yuan, Zhiyang

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2014.10.015

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“…As a result of both conceptual and empirical research conducted over the last five decades, presently the notion of "sustainability" has been clearly understood; however, a precise definition with a broad consensus is yet to be devised [14,15]. In generic terms, sustainability is a normative concept that indicates the way humans should act towards nature, and the way they should be responsible towards one another and future generations [16,17].…”

Section: Background and Literature Reviewmentioning

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Planning, Development and Management of Sustainable Cities: A Commentary from the Guest Editors

Yiğitcanlar

Kamruzzaman

2015

Sustainability

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Cities are the most dramatic manifestations of human activities on the surface of the earth. These human-dominated organisms-i.e., cities-degrade natural habitats, simplify species composition, disrupt hydrological systems, and modify energy flow and nutrient cycling. Today, these consequential impacts of human activities, originated from population increase, rapid urbanization, high private motor vehicle dependency, deregulated industrialization and mass livestock production, are increasing exponentially and causing great deal of environmental, social, and economic challenges both at global and local scales. In such a situation, establishment of sustainable cities, through sustainable urban development practices, is seen as a potential panacea to combat these challenges responsibly, effectively, and efficiently. This paper offers a critical review of the key literature on the issues relating to planning, development and management of sustainable cities, introduces the contributions from the Special Issue, and speculates on the prospective research directions to place necessary mechanisms to secure a sustainable urban future for all.

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Section: Background and Literature Reviewmentioning

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Planning, Development and Management of Sustainable Cities: A Commentary from the Guest Editors

Yiğitcanlar

Kamruzzaman

2015

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“…Key indicators that determine the UCC of an urban area are grouped into five main UCC components, i.e., environmental impacts and natural resources; infrastructure and urban services, public perception; institution setting; and society supporting capacity by Wei et al (2015) [37] (See Table 1). These five UCC components appropriately cover and subdivide the key determinative parts of UCC and urban sustainability, i.e., the natural elements and man-made system [37]. They generally subsume the primary demands and development goals of various stakeholders of any given city.…”

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“…It serves as the rules for indicator selection. For example, one important principle is that the inclusion of more indicators does not necessarily lead to a higher quality assessment [37,43]. Conversely, it may lead to repetitive information, which causes confusion and ambiguous signals to policymakers [18,27,44].…”

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Using Urban-Carrying Capacity as a Benchmark for Sustainable Urban Development: An Empirical Study of Beijing

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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 also on the methodological issues for UCC monitoring and evaluation. A knowledge gap exists, which this paper fills. This study aims to develop a practical UCC assessment framework to guide urban development towards achieving sustainability. The quantitative-based assessment framework provides a set of measurable indicators and benchmarks for city managers to conduct routine monitoring on progress toward urban sustainability, and helps identify deficient areas, which urgently need resource allocation to improve UCC. Focusing on a case study of Beijing, this study demonstrates that the framework is useful in promoting urban sustainability. This framework provides rich implications for other city prototypes in China as the nation marches into the next phase of development.

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“…The hypothesis related to this study was: the support of public transport is only viable when the marginal benefit of public transport supporting policy is higher than the marginal cost of individual transport punishment. Wei et al research proposed a methodology to assess the urban carrying capacity [10]. In this paper, the authors focused only the urban transportation and the balance between public transportation and private cars.…”

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Economic Investigation of a Public Transport Support Policy: A Case Study at Budapest

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Junevičius

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Sustainable urban development: A review on urban carrying capacity assessment

Cited by 161 publications

References 42 publications

Planning, Development and Management of Sustainable Cities: A Commentary from the Guest Editors

Planning, Development and Management of Sustainable Cities: A Commentary from the Guest Editors

Using Urban-Carrying Capacity as a Benchmark for Sustainable Urban Development: An Empirical Study of Beijing

Economic Investigation of a Public Transport Support Policy: A Case Study at Budapest

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