Sustainable urban development indicators in Great Britain from 2001 to 2016

Patias, Nikos, Rowe, Francisco ORCID: 0000-0003-4137-0246, Cavazzi, Stefano and Arribas-Bel, Dani ORCID: 0000-0002-6274-1619 (2021) Sustainable urban development indicators in Great Britain from 2001 to 2016. LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING, 214. p. 104148.

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Abstract

Current planning strategies promoting suburbanisation, land use zoning and low built-up density areas tend to increase the environmental footprint of cities. In the last decades, international and local government plans are increasingly targeted at making urban areas more sustainable. Urban structure has been proved to be an important factor guiding urban smart growth policies that promote sustainable urban environments and improve neighbourhood social cohesion. This paper draws on a series of unique historical datasets obtained from Ordnance Survey, covering the largest British urban areas over the last 15 years (2001–2016) to develop a set of twelve indicators and a composite Sustainable Urban Development Index to quantitatively measure and assess key built environment features and their relative change compared to other areas at each point in time based on regular 1 km2 grids. The results show that there is a relative increase in urban structure sustainability of areas in and around city centres and identify that the primary built environment feature driving these improvements was an increase in walkable spaces.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Urban structure, Spatial analysis, Composite index, Britain
Divisions:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Environmental Sciences
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	07 Feb 2022 09:08
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2023 21:15
DOI:	10.1016/j.lurbplan.2021.104148
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3147031

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