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Developing and sustaining creative cities: a sustainability tool for designers, planners, and public administrators

Steward, W. Cecil; Kuska, Sharon - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 6-16

A creative city will be made up of many distinct characteristics within the five domains of sustainability: environmental qualities, socio-cultural conditions, technological applications, economic patterns and vitalities and supportive, democratic public policies. All of these characteristics...

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Sustainability, creativity, resilience: toward new development strategies of port areas through evaluation processes

Girard, Luigi Fusco - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 161-184

Industrial-commercial and tourist ports areas are spaces of difference, rich in potential opportunities but also in contradictions and conflicts. The conservation of their particular landscape is very important for the city/region development, founded on a new metabolism. Port areas will become...

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Impact evaluation of creative city policies

Arbolino, Roberta; Rostirolla, Pietro - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 31-44

This paper concerns situations similar to the ones occurring in the city of Naples, which result in a continuous degradation that destroys resources and detracts from their future usability. The main difficulties are to be found in terms of organisational and managerial skills in integrated...

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The unplanned creative city: an emerging sustainability? Crossroads between education and innovation in Santiago, Chile

Blejer, Luis Valenzuela; Moya, Juan Pablo Blanco - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 58-68

Santiago, Chile's capital city, has undergone numerous changes in its urban fabric due the process of economic globalisation since mid 1980s, affecting its social, physical and economic configurations. But behind all those changes, the concentration of high knowledge-based activities has been...

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Creative connectivity between research and policy-making to support implementation of urban sustainability

Garzillo, Cristina - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 45-57

It has been widely acknowledged that urban areas play a vital role in creating a Europe that is both sustainable and competitive, providing high environmental and social quality while at the same time being a pioneer region for economic and scientific innovation and creativity. Local governments...

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Measuring accessibility: prescriptions for performance measures of the creative and sustainable city

Krizek, Kevin J. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 149-160

Urban journalists and researchers seek performance measures on how one city fares versus another in any dimension. An increasingly important performance measure relates to how well cities advance one important dimension of sustainability – decreased mobile source pollutants and decreased...

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Public management and community in rethinking and structuring sustainability: a two-city (USA and Ukraine) comparative analysis

Slava, Svitlana; Condrey, Stephen E. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 3, pp. 243-266

Despite a significant pool of sustainable development literature that appeared during the last decade, the term remains unclear. This study involved a theoretical analysis of definitions of sustainable development to identify the weights of different components, to assess what meanings are...

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MONET indicator system: the Swiss road to measuring sustainable development

Montmollin, Andre De; Scheller, Andrea - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 10 (2007) 1/2, pp. 61-72

This paper examines the question of how to build a system of sustainable development indicators that takes into account … sustainable development indicators. The development of the whole system took more than three years. The frame of reference … measured by indicators. …

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Introduction to the key issue concerning the use of sustainable development indicators

Rey-Valette, Helene; Laloe, Francis; Fur, Jean Le - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 10 (2007) 1/2, pp. 4-13

of institutional initiatives were implemented by international organisations in order to develop indicators for … this question concerning the use of sustainable development indicators with respect to their various functions, we …

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In search of coastal zone sustainability by means of social carrying capacity indicators construction: lessons learned from the Thau lagoon case study (Region Languedoc-Roussillon,...

Roussel, Sebastien; Crinquant, Nicolas; Bourdat, Eva - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 10 (2007) 1/2, pp. 175-194

social carrying capacity indicators. These indicators evaluate the levels and thresholds related to population growth … follow a Principles-Criteria-Indicators (PCI) outline to distinguish the underlying pressures on the coastal zone. The main … set of indicators. We consider that social carrying capacity indicators provide standards for sustainability, and we …

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