Berg, P.G, & G. Nycander, 1997, Sustainable neighbourhoods: a qualitative model for resource management in communities, in: Landscape and Urban Planning, 39,
- Author : Berg, P.G, & G. Nycander
- Year : 1997
- Title English : Sustainable neighbourhoods: a qualitative model for resource management in communities
- Journal/Series : Landscape and Urban Planning
- Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : 39
- Pages : 117-135
- Abstract in English : The need to improve the management of natural and societal resources in communities is becoming increasingly evident to urban planners in the Nordic countries. In this article the authors propose a qualitative model that can help us understand the concept of sustainability from the neighbourhood perspective. Environmental problems have shifted from the local scale to regional and global levels. The sources of difficulty have turned into a diffuse and complex exhaust dilemma, caused by millions of minute consumer actions. Therefore, the global search for solid principles of sustainable resource management continues. Today we know that actions used to curb the environmental crisis also encompass community planning. Agenda 21 from the Rio summit has al ready triggered new planning efforts in most Swedish cities and towns. At present, the focus of interest is slowly turning towards other factors influencing the management of the physical environment, i.e. social, organisational and economical resources. However, to understand the links between these resources in town planning, the discussion needs to focus more on other scales, like the neighbourhood. The prime objective of this paper is to provide solid arguments for the sustainable neighbourhood as a dynamic concept. Today’s universal technology and planning can in the future be expected to be replaced by diversity of site- and situation specific solutions. This would in turn result in a multitude of community designs, all their unique way contributing to a world-wide sustainable development.
- Comments/Notes : KEYWORDS: Sustainability, community, neighbourhood, human needs, societal significance. UTILITY: lecturers/teachers, academic research, students of universities of professional education. This paper is not dealing with landscape design and its related disciplines, but these disciplines are strongly intertwined with this theme.