Luís Balula
University of Lisbon
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Archive | 2017
Luís Balula; João Seixas
Urbanization stands amongst the most significant global trends of the 21st century, with cities accounting already for 70% of global wealth creation, 60% of total energy consumption, 70% of greenhouse gas emissions and 70% of global waste (UN Habitat 2015). These numbers are telling of both the vigor of cities and the challenges they face. The unprecedented levels of urbanization worldwide over the last decades have fuelled global economic growth while raising a number of social, environmental and spatial concerns that are increasingly shared by all cities, rather than unique to particular sites, thanks to globalization. Sustainability, socio-territorial cohesion and sustainable urban development became mots d’ordre and the city emerged as the critical building block for a more sustainable future. In this chapter, we consider the imperatives of sustainability and how they impact the urban planning field. In light of the United Nations declaration of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD 2004–2014), we look into the requirements of higher education for sustainable urban planning and development (SUPD) and examine how sustainability concepts and principles are shaping the curricula of academic programs with a focus on the built environment. Supported by topical literature on sustainability and urban planning, the content analysis of a sample of 10 top world academic programs dealing with the built environment—covering the areas of architecture, urban design, urbanism and city planning—helped to identify the topical themes/fields for conceptualization and action, as well as the key skills which urban professionals need to master, in order to advance SUPD. Findings support the idea that, over the last decades, the imperatives of sustainability for urban planning have contributed to a growing convergence between the social sciences and the spatial planning field.
Journal of Cleaner Production | 2016
Olivia Bina; Luís Balula; Marta Pedro Varanda; Josefine Fokdal
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine | 2004
Luís Balula
China's Urban Century. Governance, Environment and Socio-Economic Imperatives | 2015
Luís Balula; Olivia Bina
Archive | 2018
Carlos Ferreira; Stewart Macneill; Kevin Broughton; Jennifer Ferreira; Kate Broadhurst; Nigel Berkeley; Christian Fertner; Niels Boje Groth; Giancarlo Cotella; Umberto Janin Rivolin; Elena Camilla Pede; Maurizio Pioletti; Marco Satntangelo; Mário Vale; Margarida Queirós; Luís Balula; Eduarda Marques da Costa; Herculano Cachinho
URBACHINA WP4 | 2015
Olivia Bina; Luís Balula; Marta Pedro Varanda; Josefine Fokdal
URBACHINA Project Report | 2015
Olivia Bina; Luís Balula; Andrea Ricci; Zhong Ma; Craig Hart
Global Education for Urban Futures | 2015
Olivia Bina; Josefine Fokdal; Luís Balula; Marta Pedro Varanda
Archive | 2014
Olivia Bina; Luís Balula; Andrea Ricci
Archive | 2014
Olivia Bina; Luís Balula; Andrea Ricci