How to explain sustainability

How to explain sustainability: the future of urban planning researched through health

Kortman, Anne Sophie (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Wagenaar, C. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

AR2A011

2019-09-10

The attempts made in history to design livable sustainable neighborhoods, have created dependency instead on motorized transportation and have increased the pressure of the city, leading to unsustainable environments and causing global climate change. To accomplish sustainability we introduce a new vision to explain what sustainability means in the built environment and how we can identify ourselves more with the term sustainability. In this thesis we explore therefore policies and strategies where the urban environment and public health meet each other. We believe that by increasing public health, a sustainable environment will be the result. To translate this into urban design, we suggest to design from the neighborhood, the building block of the city. By transforming neighborhoods into a network of healthy places we research how we can increase the quality (livability) of neighborhoods to increase public health, wellbeing and sustainability in the built environment.

urban planning
Sustainabilty
public health
neighborhood
design
Sustainable Development Goals
placemaking
Network design

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