The current urban planning model for Spanish cities does not meet the criteria for successful urban sustainability, in fact quite the opposite, it follows the disperse city model introduced twenty years ago by the boom in the construction industry and improved communication infrastructures. In...

Die anhaltende Inanspruchnahme unbebauter Flächen für Siedlungszwecke - unter anderem in Folge der Stadt-Umland-Wanderung privater Haushalte - steht in Konflikt mit dem Leitbild einer nachhaltigen Raumentwicklung.

The book reflects on how intelligent urban regeneration can be an extraordinary driver of sustainable social and economic progress. It provides a friendly, evergreen and flexible thinking methodology that can serve as a reference guide to address a wide range of initiatives creating the...

The definition and the subsequent development of eco-industrial parks (EIPs) have been deeply based on the application of industrial ecology theory, which pays specific attention to metabolic exchanges within industrial processes to address a deep reduction of limited resource consumption and a...

1. Governing sustainable urban renewal : networks and partners in governance -- 2. Sustainable urban renewal, partnerships and networks -- 3. Understanding and evaluating partnership and network governance models in sustainable urban renewal -- 4. Institutional context : informing partnerships,...