Kocabaş, Arzu (2018) Sustainable Healthy Neighbourhoods for Cities of Tomorrow. Second International Congress on Urban Environment Health.
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Abstract
Urbanisation is one of the most important global processes of the 21st century, with cities, as key players. It is widely accepted that cities, as the engines for business and innovation, can and should provide education, jobs, health, security and growth for the urban community. In this context, ‘the city we need’ was introduced by the UN, as a new paradigm for building sustainable and well-managed cities for tomorrow (UN-Habitat, 2016). This urban paradigm evolved into a manifesto, presenting a ‘common vision’ driven by principles and drivers of change - the New Urban Agenda.
Currently, the global urban community, in aggregate, has the most comfortable living conditions on earth. But the well-being of the world community is not yet achieved. Complex and chronic health conditions, particularly, rising mental health conditions, have a significant negative impact. There is still significant progress to be made towards a more unified understanding of health / well-being of human beings, which could positively influence the trajectory of urban planning and development. There is an evolving range of urban health protection initiatives, aiming to address this issue, with hopeful outcomes in more developed parts of the world. However, there are also some urban-village initiatives, as yet on the margins of the global discourse, which address the issue from a more holistic perspective in the eastern hemisphere.
From this perspective our research aims to contribute to the development of a rigorous model for sustainable urban development and inclusive governance, with particular reference to sustainable healthy neighbourhoods / villages. Therefore, the paper first reviews ‘the city we need’ initiative, as an overall analytical framework. In this context, the emerging concept of ‘sustainable healthy neighbourhoods’ is introduced to provide a more specific framework for a detailed analysis at a local level. The paper then presents some of the initial findings of exploratory case study research undertaken by the authors in Auroville, India in 2017. The paper concludes with a preliminary assessment of the potential of an innovative holistic approach to sustainable healthy neighbourhoods, which embraces a broader definition of health/well-being than that which is embedded in contemporary neighbourhood / village development.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Additional Information: | See pages 23 to 38 for the paper on Auroville. |
| Subjects: | Collective Organisation > Collective Organisation (General) Town Planning > Town Planning (General) |
| Depositing User: | Admin User |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2021 04:28 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Feb 2021 04:28 |
| URI: | http://aurorepo.in/id/eprint/125 |
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