Sustainable Urban Development

There we say that an economy or urban centre is sustainable if and only if it shows consistency in all those branches that we have mentioned. For any given country, sustainability is a key point for development. Some of the key areas that are encompassed in this regard include; Equity and health, habitat and ecological quality where architectures can be used in designing resilient cities, water quality and recharge, energy use and production (based on non-transport related uses), energy use and GHG emissions (based on transport related uses). Each aspect contains its own specific metrics i. e. It should also be noted that the campus in the University campuses. Although these can sometimes be seen as project scales, they can be considered as combination of the block or street scale.

In this regard then we can conclude that these metrics are all trivial for urban design decisions and practices. We can also have another view of this topic by taking into account the factors that indicate unsustainability. One of these factors includes global warming. Thus an economy should keep in check such indicators to ensure that its economy is stable. Also, another point of view can be on factors that contribute to unsustainability. They are easily identifiable and comprise such holistic as: overconsumption of materials and energy; population growth that has been growing at a steadfast rate such that LDCs i. e. less developed countries can barely keep up; dependence among non-renewable resources which mostly comprise of substances that are not provided for in the natural environment hence causing competition for the available and limited natural resources; pollution leads to substances accumulating into the ecosphere and such can never be recycled in the natural systems; environmentally and socially destructive development patterns; inequalities in resource distribution that is usually related to disparities in the gap between the rich and the poor that has since been widening over the recent past; limited public participation especially in economic decision making processes hence causing not just social inequalities but also economic inequalities.