P4.5 Urban Devel
Urban Development
Program Overview, May 2010 by Peter Newman
A4 Handout - Sustainable Urban Development (PDF)
CRCSI2 Urban Sustainability Sub-Program 4.5 9 Nov 2009, Perth
workshop - Sustainable Urban Development 8 June 2009, Perth
click here for discussion document 11 March 2009
P4.5 Science Director: Prof Peter Newman
Half of the world’s inhabitants live in cities. In twenty years, there will be 5 billion urban dwellers. With inefficient transport systems and poorly designed developments, many cities consume enormous quantities of fossil fuels and emit high levels of greenhouse gases.
Intelligent planning and leadership based on sophisticated spatial awareness of sustainable development planning can help cities meet the impending crises.
This program will research, trial and demonstrate a new approach to achieving sustainable urban development. It will devise spatial sustainability indicators, metrics, decision rules models and standards that will create a fact-based approach, driven by sustainability outcomes, to support decision making in urban development. The program will also create tools that transform the ability of planners and regulators to communicate across the tiers of government, to one another, and with their key client bases.
schematic of the Program Control Structure for P4.5
Resources for Information
- Beyond Visualisation: Intelligent City Planning and Management (4MB pdf)
- Concepts and strategies of spatial development in Germany (3MB pdf)
- Spatial Development and Spatial Planning in Germany (2MB pdf)
- European Commission report “Sustaining Europe” (pdf)
- ESPON 2013 Database: Inception Report (pdf)
- ESPON Data Navigator tool
- Phillip O’Neill: Western Sydney Employment Trends (pdf)
- DECOIN Project (European Community Project)
- http://www.vector1media.com/ - “V1 magazine - Promoting spatial design for a sustainable tomorrow”
ESPON - European Spatial Planning Observation Network
DECOIN - Development & Comparison of Sustainability Indicators (EU Project)
International Links - decoin project in european union
DECOIN project responds to the EU FP6 SSP Priority “Integrating and strengthening the European Research Area, Scientific Support to Policies”. At the EU policy level, the project will contribute to the renewed EU Sustainable Development Strategy and the 6th Environment Action Programme and the related Thematic Strategies.
The DECOIN project deals with sustainable development indicators and the methodology of analyzing inter-linkages between different trends in the EU. The DECOIN project will contribute to the research towards a sustainable European knowledge society through the development of the EU framework of Sustainable Development Indicators. Through the methodological work concerning the analytical frameworks the project will help the EU and its Member States to better observe the trends in relation to the different dimensions of sustainability. The very broad societal relevance of the overall research topic is exceptional and so the project will play an important role in serving the society as a whole.
“… putting the principle of sustainability into practice is one of the greatest challenges facing Europe’s policy makers, enterprises and people. Cities and regions may now believe they can find win-win solutions to their environmental, social and economic problems. But which combination of policies, support measures and environmental technologies will optimise benefits in all three domains? … we need to transition to a model of mutually reinforcing wealth creation, social cohesion and environmental protection.” Andrew Duff 6 April 09