Tag: Sustainable Communities

The goal of the Healthy Connected Neighbourhood Strategy is to bring complete neighbourhoods to 80% of the city’s population by 2035. The Strategy is integrated into the main Portland Plan, a comprehensive strategic plan to achieve urban equity and sustainability. 

The Hammarby Sjöstad project is a recognized model in urban regeneration of a brownfield site made up of a former industrial area. When complete in 2017, the project will have about 12,000 residential units, housing roughly 28,000 people and providing 10,000 working units.

Barcelona’s Smart City Strategy takes a holistic view of the various projects being developed throughout the city and uses technology as a transversal tool to manage the city’s resources and services in a more efficient way. In doing so, it guarantees sustainable social, economic and urban development with the ultimate goal of improving the quality of life of Barcelona’s citizens.

Barcelona's Super Blocks project approaches urban development in a transversal way that simultaneously promotes energetic self-sufficiency, sustainable mobility, public space revitalisation, biodiversity and urban green areas, as well as social cohesion and citizen engagement with the goal of reducing the city’s ecological footprint and improving citizens’ quality of life. Super Blocks are urban units – larger than a block but smaller than a neighbourhood – with streets favourable to slow, pedestrian-friendly transit.

The City of Austin is using the EcoDistrict framework to communicate the many green and sustainable features of the Seaholm Development District. 

In 2013, the Office of Sustainability led a collaboratie exploratoin of how EcoDistrict strategies and criteria apply to the entire Seaholm Redevelopment District – including both private- and public-sector projects. Opportunities have been identified for advanced, integrated green building, mobility, watershed and ecosystem protection, economic development, climate action, and community well-being.