Towards Sustainability in Eco-cities; TDR and Possibilities of Application on Urban Areas.

Lately, sustainability in eco-cities had been such an urgent topic. Development forces acts as a threat to eco-lands. This study aims to evaluate the use of different tools through out a comparative analysis of various case studies in order to guarantee their sustainability. A community vision based on sustainability will help align and motivate communities, governments and others and will provide a basis for developing a strategy to achieve this vision. This paper discusses the application of one of the regulatory tools for achieving sustainability in eco-cities which is TDR ‘Transfer of Developing Rights’ as an alternative method that has been applied in other cities, as a new promising solution and the possibilities of its application in future projects could be applied to maintain sustainability of eco-lands within the cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]