Urban sustaxability as a "Global Project"

Authors

  • Ευαγγελία Αθανασίου

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26266/jtovol17pp31-48

Keywords:

Urban policy, Sustainable development

Abstract

The article identifies theoretical problems in the way the global nature of urban sustainability has been construed and is currently promoted by international organisations and national governments. Subsequently, it examines the way such theoretical problems are expressed in the increasing efforts of the European Union for a unified urban policy. It is a central point of this article that, universal methodologies and assumptions of commonalities in the urban form, social structure or cultural background of cities across Europe form an inappropriate and often counterproductive basis for these efforts.

Published

2015-10-16

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Section

Articles