Resilience and Liveability as Drivers of Sustainability: The Case of UBC’s Public Spaces

Marichela Sepe ()
Additional contact information
Marichela Sepe: DICEA, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00184 Rome, Italy

Sustainability, 2025, vol. 17, issue 21, 1-20

Abstract: Environmental sustainability and resilience have become urgent priorities in contemporary urban planning as cities confront the disruptive impacts of climate change, extreme weather, and global health crises. Within this framework, university campuses increasingly act as catalysts for sustainable urban transformation. This research, developed within the LOVE Sapienza and NARRATES projects, seeks to identify the key factors that enhance the liveability of campus public spaces and to propose a dedicated methodology, supported by the case study of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. The proposed approach integrates spatial analyses, field observations, and perceptual mapping aligned with the principles of the Charter for Resilient and Liveable Public Spaces. UBC exemplifies how biophilic design, inclusive governance, and art-based placemaking can strengthen resilience, social cohesion, and cultural identity. The study contributes a transferable framework for designing and managing campus public spaces as drivers of sustainability and urban regeneration.

Keywords: resilience; liveability; campus public spaces; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17/21/9878/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17/21/9878/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:17:y:2025:i:21:p:9878-:d:1788356

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().