The present Discussion Paper aims to reveal the conception of the idea of sustainable urban development, and how this term can serve geopolitical interests related to maintaining the uneven and combined development discourse on a global and national scale. To this purpose, an etymological and...

The present Discussion Paper aims to reveal the conception of the idea of sustainable urban development, and how this term can serve geopolitical interests related to maintaining the uneven and combined development discourse on a global and national scale. To this purpose, an etymological and...

English Abstract: The contradictions arising between economic growth, social equity and environmental care, are further deepened currently as society begins to display the results from the ravages of an untenable market and production system, for many declining. The damage to natural resources...