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Local Commitment: An Approach to Sustainable Neighbourhood Renewal?

Local Commitment: An Approach to Sustainable Neighbourhood Renewal?
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Author(s): Laure Heland (University of Tours, France)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 19
Source title: Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning: Creating Smart Cities
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ozge Yalciner Ercoskun (Gazi University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-453-6.ch019

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Abstract

This contribution concerns the planning process applicable to sustainable urban neighbourhoods whose increasing number in Europe appears to be changing the framework of urban development. Having briefly presented the main characteristics of sustainable neighbourhoods in Europe, this chapter then specifically concentrates on sustainable urban neighbourhoods resulting from an ecological rehabilitation process in the city of Albertslund, in Denmark. While these rehabilitation experiments remain anecdotal when compared with new sustainable districts, they nevertheless represent a far greater structuring potential for cities. Our hypothesis is that the implementation of sustainable development renews local planning practices. We shall also see how these districts attempt to overcome a major contradiction inherent in new eco-neighbourhoods by combining a search for eco-technological performances with the incorporation of more social and cultural challenges. Our research suggests that the local actions of inhabitants can play an important role in making sustainable development work.

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