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68 relations: Action research, Affordable housing, Agenda 21, Architecture, Automobile dependency, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Best practice, Biodegradable waste, Biophilia hypothesis, British Columbia, Carbon neutrality, Carsharing, Circles of Sustainability, Climate resilience, Cogeneration, Compact space, Compost, Dongtan, Shanghai, Doug Farr, E. O. Wilson, Eco-cities, Ecological resilience, Ecological urbanism, English Partnerships, Good governance, Governance, Green roof, Green urbanism, Impervious surface, Indigenous (ecology), Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Mixed-use development, New Urbanism, New York City, New York City Department of Design and Construction, Newington, New South Wales, Nonpoint source pollution, Public transport, Rainwater harvesting, Renewable energy, Resilience (organizational), Rice hulls, Sewage, Smart growth, SmartCode, Solar panel, Surface runoff, Sustainability, Sustainable city, Sustainable development, ..., Sustainable drainage system, Sustainable urban infrastructure, Sydney, Synergy, U.S. Green Building Council, United Nations Environment Programme, University of Manchester, Upton, Northamptonshire, Urban area, Urban design, Urban planning, Urban sprawl, Vancouver, Walkability, Wildlife corridor, Wind turbine, Window, Wool insulation. Expand index (18 more) »
Action research
Action research is either research initiated to solve an immediate problem or a reflective process of progressive problem solving led by individuals working with others in teams or as part of a "community of practice" to improve the way they address issues and solve problems.
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Affordable housing
Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a median household income as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index.
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Agenda 21
Agenda 21 is a non-binding action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development.
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Architecture
Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.
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Automobile dependency
Automobile dependency is the concept that some city layouts cause automobiles to be favored over alternate forms of transportation such as bicycles, public transit, and walking.
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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is a research institute and university in Lausanne, Switzerland, that specializes in natural sciences and engineering.
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Best practice
A best practice is a method or technique that has been generally accepted as superior to any alternatives because it produces results that are superior to those achieved by other means or because it has become a standard way of doing things, e.g., a standard way of complying with legal or ethical requirements.
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Biodegradable waste
Biodegradable waste includes any organic matter in waste which can be broken down into carbon dioxide, water, methane or simple organic molecules by micro-organisms and other living things using composting, aerobic digestion, anaerobic digestion or similar processes.
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Biophilia hypothesis
The biophilia hypothesis also called BET suggests that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life.
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British Columbia
British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.
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Carbon neutrality
Carbon neutrality, or having a net zero carbon footprint, refers to achieving net zero carbon emissions by balancing a measured amount of carbon released with an equivalent amount sequestered or offset, or buying enough carbon credits to make up the difference.
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Carsharing
Carsharing or car sharing (AU, NZ, CA, & US) or car clubs (UK) is a model of car rental where people rent cars for short periods of time, often by the hour.
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Circles of Sustainability
Circles of Sustainability is a method for understanding and assessing sustainability, and for managing projects directed towards socially sustainable outcomes.
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Climate resilience
Climate resilience can be generally defined as the capacity for a socio-ecological system to: (1) absorb stresses and maintain function in the face of external stresses imposed upon it by climate change and (2) adapt, reorganize, and evolve into more desirable configurations that improve the sustainability of the system, leaving it better prepared for future climate change impacts.
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Cogeneration
Cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) is the use of a heat engine or power station to generate electricity and useful heat at the same time.
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Compact space
In mathematics, and more specifically in general topology, compactness is a property that generalizes the notion of a subset of Euclidean space being closed (that is, containing all its limit points) and bounded (that is, having all its points lie within some fixed distance of each other).
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Compost
Compost is organic matter that has been decomposed in a process called composting.
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Dongtan, Shanghai
Dongtan is a plan for a new eco-city on the island of Chongming in Shanghai, China.
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Doug Farr
Douglas Lynn Farr is an American architect and urban planner.
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E. O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929), usually cited as E. O. Wilson, is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author.
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Eco-cities
An eco-city is a city built from the principles of living within environment means.
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Ecological resilience
In ecology, resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbance by resisting damage and recovering quickly.
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Ecological urbanism
The ecological urbanism project draws from ecology to inspire an urbanism that is more socially inclusive and sensitive to the environment, as well as less ideologically driven, than green urbanism or sustainable urbanism.
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English Partnerships
English Partnerships (EP) was the national regeneration agency for England, performing a similar role on a national level to that fulfilled by regional development agencies on a regional level.
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Good governance
Good governance is an indeterminate term used in the international development literature to describe how public institutions conduct public affairs and manage public resources.
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Governance
Governance is all of the processes of governing, whether undertaken by a government, a market or a network, over a social system (family, tribe, formal or informal organization, a territory or across territories) and whether through the laws, norms, power or language of an organized society.
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Green roof
A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane.
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Green urbanism
Green urbanism has been defined as the practice of creating communities beneficial to human and the environment.
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Impervious surface
Impervious surfaces are mainly artificial structures—such as pavements (roads, sidewalks, driveways and parking lots, as well as industrial areas such as airports, ports and logistics and distribution centres, all of which use considerable paved areas) that are covered by impenetrable materials such as asphalt, concrete, brick, stone—and rooftops.
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Indigenous (ecology)
In biogeography, a species is defined as indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only natural process, with no human intervention.
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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is one of the most popular green building certification programs used worldwide.
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Mixed-use development
Mixed-use development is a type of urban development that blends residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment uses, where those functions are physically and functionally integrated, and that provides pedestrian connections.
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New Urbanism
New Urbanism is an urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York City Department of Design and Construction
New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) is the department of the government of New York City that builds many of the civic facilities in New York City.
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Newington, New South Wales
Newington is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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Nonpoint source pollution
Nonpoint source (NPS) pollution is a term used to describe pollution resulting from many diffuse sources, in direct contrast to point source pollution which results from a single source.
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Public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, or mass transit) is transport of passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that charge a posted fee for each trip.
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Rainwater harvesting
Rainwater harvesting is the accumulation and storage of rainwater for reuse on-site, rather than allowing it to run off.
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Renewable energy
Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.
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Resilience (organizational)
Organizational resilience is defined as "the ability of a system to withstand changes in its environment and still function".
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Rice hulls
Rice hulls (or rice husks) are the hard protecting coverings of grains of rice.
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Sewage
Sewage (or domestic wastewater or municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced from a community of people.
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Smart growth
Smart growth is an urban planning and transportation theory that concentrates growth in compact walkable urban centers to avoid sprawl.
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SmartCode
SmartCode is a unified land development ordinance template for planning and urban design.
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Solar panel
Photovoltaic solar panels absorb sunlight as a source of energy to generate electricity.
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Surface runoff
Surface runoff (also known as overland flow) is the flow of water that occurs when excess stormwater, meltwater, or other sources flows over the Earth's surface.
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Sustainability
Sustainability is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.
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Sustainable city
Sustainable cities, urban sustainability, or eco-city (also "ecocity") is a city designed with consideration for social, economic, environmental impact, and resilient habitat for existing populations, without compromising the ability of future generations to experience the same.
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Sustainable development
Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depend.
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Sustainable drainage system
A sustainable drainage system (SuDs,, Sharma, D., 2008 SuDS, SUDSScottish Government. Planning Services (2001). Planning Advice Note 61. 2001-07-27.) is designed to reduce the potential impact of new and existing developments with respect to surface water drainage discharges.
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Sustainable urban infrastructure
Sustainable urban infrastructure expands on the concept of urban infrastructure by adding the sustainability element with the expectation of improved and more sustained urban development.
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Sydney
Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Synergy
Synergy is the creation of a whole that is greater than the simple sum of its parts.
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U.S. Green Building Council
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), co-founded by Mike Italiano, David Gottfried and Rick Fedrizzi in 1993, is a private 501(c)3, membership-based non-profit organization that promotes sustainability in building design, construction, and operation.
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United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is an agency of United Nations and coordinates its environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices.
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University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester.
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Upton, Northamptonshire
Upton is a civil parish north-east of Kislingbury and south-west of Dallington, in Northamptonshire, England about west of Northampton town centre along the A4500 road.
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Urban area
An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.
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Urban design
Urban design is the process of designing and shaping the physical features of cities, towns and villages.
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Urban planning
Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use in an urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.
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Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization.
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
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Walkability
Walkability is a measure of how friendly an area is to walking.
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Wildlife corridor
A wildlife corridor, habitat corridor, or green corridor is an area of habitat connecting wildlife populations separated by human activities or structures (such as roads, development, or logging).
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Wind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that converts the wind's kinetic energy into electrical energy.
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Window
A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof or vehicle that allows the passage of light, sound, and air.
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Wool insulation
Wool insulation is made from sheep wool fibres that are either mechanically held together or bonded using between 5% and 20% recycled polyester adhesive to form insulating batts, rolls and ropes.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_urbanism
