Sustainable Urban Development: A Review of Urban Sustainability Indicator Frameworks

The issue of urban sustainability is currently exceptionally up to date, and the sustainable development of cities has become an important topic on the political level. Many cities in the world are facing acute challenges concerning growing dangers to the environment and ensuring quality of life for...

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Published inSustainability Vol. 13; no. 16; p. 9348
Main Authors Michalina, Denis, Mederly, Peter, Diefenbacher, Hans, Held, Benjamin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.08.2021
Subjects
Cities
Comparative analysis
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Evaluation
Outdoor air quality
Pandemics
Population
Quality of life
Sustainable development
Sustainable urban development
Trends
Urban areas
Slovakia
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Summary:The issue of urban sustainability is currently exceptionally up to date, and the sustainable development of cities has become an important topic on the political level. Many cities in the world are facing acute challenges concerning growing dangers to the environment and ensuring quality of life for their inhabitants. In connection with cities achieving their individual goals of sustainable development, urban sustainability indicator frameworks (USIFs) are becoming the subjects of attention. Such frameworks enable sustainability to be clearly measured and assessed. In this article, we analysed selected global and European USIFs in terms of their commonalities and differences, sustainability dimensions, thematic categories, and categorised indicators. Based on the analysis of the content of the reviewed frameworks, we compiled a list of generally recognised thematic categories within the four main dimensions of sustainable development, and we identified the key indicators of urban sustainability. Our review showed differences in the existing approaches that substantially contributed to the current inconsistencies in assessing and measuring sustainable development in cities. Our results provide an overview of this issue, e.g., to decision makers, and could concurrently serve as a generally applicable foundation for the creation of new urban sustainability indicator frameworks. We also point out the current trends and challenges in the domain of urban sustainability assessment.
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ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su13169348