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- Title
Sustainable development and urban policy: hijacking the term in Calgary
- Authors
Davies, W. K. D.
- Abstract
Sustainable development is not an easy term to conceptualize, despite its recent popularity, because it has been defined in a variety of different ways. Some fundamental published statements on sustainable development from the Brundtland Report and from Haughton and Hunter'srecent book on 'Sustainable Cities' are interrelated in the search for a more cohesive and integrated framework of principles that summarize the concept and which can be applied to cities. These principles are used as a background to evaluate the 1995 plans for Sustainable Suburbs in the City of Calgary, a city of over three quarters of a million population. It is shown that Calgary's proposals may have many merits but they will hardly radically change the current low density development or provide much sustainability. This conclusion comes fromthe fact that many of the fundamental features of sustainability arenot incorporated in the recommended set of ideas, which seem more like an environmental update of Garden City and Neighbourhood Unit Design principles.
- Subjects
URBAN planning; SUSTAINABLE development
- Publication
GeoJournal, 1997, Vol 43, Issue 4, p359
- ISSN
0343-2521
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1006828423352