Sustainable urban forms: eco-neighbourhoods in Europe

Oriana Codispoti

Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 2022, vol. 15, issue 4, 395-420

Abstract: Far from specifying any form, the term “eco-neighbourhood” is designed to symbolically embrace a set of invariants seen both in high-efficiency building designs and environmental resource cycle management infrastructures, within a particularly wide range of settlement morphologies and resulting types of architecture. This paper first pinpoints the common features of some pioneering eco-neighbourhoods across Europe, and then concentrates on the degree to which disciplinary advances in environmental resource management have been accompanied by the same attention to spatial configuration. Through a critical reading of certain “sustainable urban forms” designed to combine material facts with formal and relational aspects, which are more difficult to measure, this paper then strives to create a dialogue between the different strands of knowledge involved in urban planning, as they are called upon to search for a balance between population, resources and environment.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2021.1908400

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