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Vulnerability, land use and sustainability are some of the main elements of major concern in the last decades that can be translated in practice through efficient development and planning. The role land use plays is recognized worldwide due to the rapid and continuous urban growth and development, which determine the occurrence of new powerful forces leading to social, demographical, environmental, technological and governmental changes. The large number of disasters in recent years demonstrated that the most effective and accessible method of reducing the pressure exerted by natural and technological risks is to reduce the level of vulnerability of communities exposed to a particular hazard. The vulnerability of populated areas to natural and technological disasters is also exacerbated by the decades of inefficient spatial planning policies that did not incorporate hazards and risks. This paper is aiming to create a bridge between the existing vulnerability theories and their implementation in land use planning policies, by assessing the need of a new methodology that will incorporate vulnerability reduction into spatial planning. The paper focuses on a case study of a developing country in SE Europe, Romania, using high resolution data obtained from the Urban Atlas inventory. The discussion and results section illustrates the spatial development of urban and rural areas in Romania in the last years. Moreover, this section demonstrates the impact of land use changes on vulnerability and the need to develop future sustainable development policies that can support decision makers, coming from the public or the private sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today's ongoing urbanisation and the climate changes there is an increasing demand on cities to be innovative and inclusive to solve these issues. As an answer to these challenges, the concept of Urban Living Labs has started to emerge. These Urban Living Labs aims to involve citizens in the process of developing the city. To date, there is a confusion concerning these Urban Living Labs are, what their objective is, their characteristics and their organisation. Hence, in this paper we build on the ongoing project UNaLab and the city representatives perspective of what an Urban Living Lab is and how it can contribute to their city´s challenges, to define Urban Living Labs and its three dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many European regeneration projects in large urban distressed areas arise as the result of industrial dismissal sites, ensuing unemployment, poverty, environmental damage and social exclusion. In order to contribute to the development of innovative policies for integrated regeneration and renewal of depressed urban areas, the paper addresses the experience of the London's South Bank project. Several integrated and complex projects have converted this area (formerly home to factories and working-class houses) into one of Europe's most important cultural hubs. After a brief description of the process through which the area has been transformed, this paper focuses on the strategies and feasibility factors that have led to a successful regeneration project, known for being packed with opportunities and amenities that attract millions of visitors every year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing urbanization is a key trend and the world is changing fast, therefore cities are facing complex transitions in economic, social and environmental areas. Therefore this paper addresses the need to understand city and location management, also termed communal marketing, as part of a process whereby its fundamental meaning and transformation are considered. As a result of this changing aspects, the design of city systems will play an essential role in shaping a sustainable, innovative and livable future and must be utilized more professionally in a focused and systematic way. Identity-oriented adaptive urban profiling was recently presented as a useful tool for municipals to enhance sustainable city development. It builds upon profile oriented marketing, while including elements of adaption management. Thus, city managers can increase their cities attractiveness by providing it with a clear profile that is recognized around the world on the one hand, while flexibly adapting to change if necessary. Here, this additional feature of the adaptive urban profiling model will be presented, that shall make the task of maintaining a stable profile while constantly adapting it, easier: the triple-bottom line. As the major domains of change are economic, social and environmental areas, these three domains are now integrated into the profile. Thus, if adaptations are necessary in one of the domains, the profile will still be recognizable via keeping the other two domains stable during this process. Thereby, the adaptive urban profiling model has now incorporated the three pillars of sustainable urban development. The city profile shall increase the uniqueness and visibility of competitive sustainable urban structures and provide solutions to optimize the urban living environment. Therefore, this work illustrates how the boundaries created to manage and market future liveable city destinations, in order to position cities strategically in a sustainable and future-oriented manner, and show the root of the practical and academic problems that trouble cities these days. This umbrella view serves as the foundation of a new paradigm in urban management and marketing. This paper targets practitioners who are responsible for city and location management and marketing, as well as figures in administration and politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the new context of European urban and environmental politics, Romania's small towns must go directly toward sustainability in order to ensure high life quality for their communities on the long term. The smallest urban settlements of Romania are confronted with diverse issues due to the former communist regime, the adaptation to the market economy, the planning policy of the sate and historical environment state. As many urban sustainability assessment methods were developed in literature, the present study is focus upon interrelations and interdependencies of social, economic and environmental development evaluation, applied in the case of small Romanian towns-which can play, at local level, a significant role of polarization or decentralization phenomenon. The paper tries to offer a geographical image of the urban development in order to help minimizing the gap among theory and practice and to offer a tool for estimation of sustainability both for local authorities and case-studies research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Smart cities are the solutions to unfathomable urban challenges. However, urban planners skepticize the existing smart cities for not addressing sustainable development through practices of resilience planning and livable transformations. At the embryonic stage, it is vital for cities of today to gain a more consistent understanding on how resilience, liveability, and sustainability can be co-created into the smart city planning model under a unified umbrella. In that respect, this research attempts to understand smart city development through the lens of sustainability, urban resilience and liveability using a systems approach, as cities evolve to achieve the descriptive goal of "Futuristic cities". Causal feedback loop diagrams were used to capture the dynamic interactions among multiple drivers within the urban context under the sustainability, resilience, and liveability models. The proposed feedback structures and interactions can help smart city planners and urban developers to transform the existing smart cities of today to a much aspiring futuristic cities we want. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The desired future state of sustainability implies a paradigm shift in the way we live, work and play. Besides constructed quality and environmental quality, the quality of facilities in buildings has influential to the living quality of numerous occupants there. The functional quality of the facilities, in turn, is dependent on the quality of their operation and management. Since the birth of the sustainable development concept and its application to urban planning and construction projects, countless sustainability indicator sets have appeared. This paper analyses the main aspects of facility management services, in particular one of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Green areas are effective cross sections to the understanding of sustainable urban plans. The amount of green areas and their diversity give an important knowledge about quality of life and ecological planning. In this research, 1/1000 scaled master plans of ten districts in Istanbul-Turkey are examined for their green areas and their plan legend diversities with the help of MS Office Excel software. Although Turkish Land Development Laws describe the size of the green areas as m2 per person, it does not give any description about green area regularities, planning and distributions. Besides, green area usage is a featured subject in Plan Production Regulation which is in draft process. So this study becomes important as being in the agenda of Turkey's sustainable development. Therefore, the aim of this study is evaluation of green area land use and legend diversities in master planning process. And a systematical hierarchy classification in green dimensions of master plans has been prepared as a proposal by using GIS [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]