Summary of key issues – conceptual, methodological and operational – specific to projects addressing sustainability at the neighborhood scale as part of the National Project “Sustainable Neighborhoods”.
In most cities and towns, there are strategic sectors likely to evolve towards a greater integration of environment, socio-cultural, and economic criteria. This transition to the status of “sustainable neighborhood” may involve various urban operations based on targeted intensification of undeveloped land, on the regeneration of brownfield sites or on the renewal of existing neighborhoods.
While they may differ in terms of their operational modalities, these projects are in all cases confronted with taking into account multiple and complex issues. This publication is a summary of the main challenges related to the development of sustainable neighborhood projects in Switzerland. It outlines a number of theoretical aspects linked to the importance of sustainable neighborhoods in the perspective of general evolution of the urban environment, discusses the methods specific to the evaluation of sustainability and outlines the essential characteristics of the tool developed under the national project and tested in six pilot neighborhoods.
Funding
Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development, Swiss Federal Office of Energy.
Forum
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Sustainable Development Forum |