Human Sustainable Urbanism Against Unsustainable Realities: A Holistic Model

Sustainable urbanism is explained in many contexts through addressing natural environment and ecological sustainability as the major concern, a condition that is related with the climate change. However, it should not be underestimated that today’s realities also include unsustainable realities abo...

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Main Author: Derya Oktay
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Language:English
Published: Alanya Üniversitesi 2020-06-01
Series:Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA
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description Sustainable urbanism is explained in many contexts through addressing natural environment and ecological sustainability as the major concern, a condition that is related with the climate change. However, it should not be underestimated that today’s realities also include unsustainable realities about social aspects, i.e. inequities between groups of people, undermined local community and social-cultural values, economies and quality of life. These issues imply a more critical state in cities of traditional societies where transformations in the urban level are still visible. This calls for sensitivity to the traditional urbanism and impact of global ideas, practices, and technologies on local social and cultural practices both at the city scale and architecture scale. In line with these, this paper aims to establish an environmentally sound and human friendly framework for ‘human sustainable urbanism’ integrating ecological and cultural sustainability. In this context, the study firstly provides a conceptual understanding of sustainable urbanism and a critical review of its philosophical and practical framework; secondly, it provides a critical assessment of contemporary approaches to sustainable urbanism; thirdly, the paper analyses the traditional Turkish (Ottoman) city which provides valuable clues for sustainable development, and discusses possible research directions that could help promote the concept of sustainability.
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spelling doaj-art-7288a5ce59bd4e778fc59799935ecdc92025-08-20T03:40:51ZengAlanya ÜniversitesiProceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA3023-70092020-06-013110.38027/N322020ICCAUA316396Human Sustainable Urbanism Against Unsustainable Realities: A Holistic Model Derya Oktay0Faculty of Architecture, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey Sustainable urbanism is explained in many contexts through addressing natural environment and ecological sustainability as the major concern, a condition that is related with the climate change. However, it should not be underestimated that today’s realities also include unsustainable realities about social aspects, i.e. inequities between groups of people, undermined local community and social-cultural values, economies and quality of life. These issues imply a more critical state in cities of traditional societies where transformations in the urban level are still visible. This calls for sensitivity to the traditional urbanism and impact of global ideas, practices, and technologies on local social and cultural practices both at the city scale and architecture scale. In line with these, this paper aims to establish an environmentally sound and human friendly framework for ‘human sustainable urbanism’ integrating ecological and cultural sustainability. In this context, the study firstly provides a conceptual understanding of sustainable urbanism and a critical review of its philosophical and practical framework; secondly, it provides a critical assessment of contemporary approaches to sustainable urbanism; thirdly, the paper analyses the traditional Turkish (Ottoman) city which provides valuable clues for sustainable development, and discusses possible research directions that could help promote the concept of sustainability. https://journal.iccaua.com/jiccaua/article/view/336Human sustainable urbanismtraditional citiescontemporary paradigmsecological and cultural integrityfuture cities
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Human Sustainable Urbanism Against Unsustainable Realities: A Holistic Model
Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA
Human sustainable urbanism
traditional cities
contemporary paradigms
ecological and cultural integrity
future cities
title Human Sustainable Urbanism Against Unsustainable Realities: A Holistic Model
title_full Human Sustainable Urbanism Against Unsustainable Realities: A Holistic Model
title_fullStr Human Sustainable Urbanism Against Unsustainable Realities: A Holistic Model
title_full_unstemmed Human Sustainable Urbanism Against Unsustainable Realities: A Holistic Model
title_short Human Sustainable Urbanism Against Unsustainable Realities: A Holistic Model
title_sort human sustainable urbanism against unsustainable realities a holistic model
topic Human sustainable urbanism
traditional cities
contemporary paradigms
ecological and cultural integrity
future cities
url https://journal.iccaua.com/jiccaua/article/view/336
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