China’s low Carbon Eco City Development Report of 2010 describes a low-carbon eco-city as an innovative type of urban development model based on the principle of balance with the natural environment.
Though there is a proliferation of eco-city research in recent years, there has been comparatively little research on the practical aspects of urban planning in eco-city development. The term “eco-city” now appears as a catch-all phrase for a variety of new urban development models. The research on defining, designing, developing, managing and measuring the performance of eco-cities and sustainable cities has experienced explosive growth in recent years. Transferability of the lessons in the US context depends on the creativity of solutions that will need to tap on latent potential in the public and private sector and research institutes.Įco-city characteristics in China. The findings confirm that local government authority in Sweden and Germany still largely reflects the notion of the benevolent state, and suggest that such a role is important for the endorsement of the value-laden notion of sustainability. I find that the implementation of the sustainable urbanism vision was possible through a municipality-led process with direct control of the land use, built form, and resource supply through legally binding instruments such as detailed plans and development contracts the consistent build-up of technical capacity in both the public and private sector and an openness to learning and adaptation. This thesis explores the planning processes underlying three new neighborhood developments in Sweden and Germany broadly regarded as exemplary green developments. While there is growing agreement on the necessity of making sure that new developments comply with these mandates, there is less to say about how to do so. The vision of sustainable urbanism includes calls for limitations to urban growth, protection of sensitive areas, compact design, clean forms of transportation, low- impact building construction, use of renewable resources, and healthy agreeable living environments.
The emergence of the sustainable development concept at the end of the 1980s triggered the intensification of the environmental sustainability discourse in urban design and planning.
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