A presente pesquisa surge a partir da reflexão sobre o sistema atual de produção de alimentos e abastecimento das cidades e as consequências geradas no ambiente e na saúde da população. Há um movimento para o retorno da produção de alimentos nas cidades, onde a maioria da população mundial habita, tanto com a finalidade de reduzir os impactos ambientais da agricultura industrial, quanto para proporcionar o acesso equitativo a alimentos mais saudáveis e com preços mais acessíveis. O desenvolvimento sustentável busca sistemas resilientes de produção visando à existência de cidades mais seguras e autossuficientes. Uma cidade autossuficiente é aquela que consegue gerar infraestrutura básica para se manter dentro de sua pegada física e metabolizar os resíduos gerados, minimizando os efeitos negativos dos assentamentos urbanos no ambiente. Dentre a busca por alternativas que contribuíssem para o planejamento de cidades mais sustentáveis, foi identificado o conceito da agricultura urbana (AU); em particular, das hortas domésticas. As hortas domésticas, consideradas um dos sistemas de cultivo mais antigos do mundo, parecem ser a mais bem-sucedida estratégia de AU para aumentar a segurança alimentar das famílias, além de proporcionar diversos outros benefícios. Desse modo, o objetivo principal deste trabalho é contribuir para um maior entendimento sobre como as hortas domésticas podem se constituir em uma estratégia para aumentar a segurança alimentar nas cidades, particularmente em áreas urbanas de pequenas municipalidades objetivando uma maior sustentabilidade urbana. Para o desenvolvimento do trabalho, foram utilizadas duas estratégias de pesquisa principais: pesquisa bibliográfica e estudo de caso. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida em três etapas: compreensão, desenvolvimento e reflexão Na etapa de compreensão, realizou-se a revisão bibliográfica para entendimento do tema e para obtenção de subsídios para as etapas seguintes. Na etapa de desenvolvimento, foi realizado um estudo exploratório, no objeto de estudo, o Município de Feliz (RS), cujo objetivo foi avaliar o potencial das hortas domésticas, em termos de produção de alimentos, bem como de outros benefícios proporcionados aos moradores urbanos. Em uma segunda etapa, foi desenvolvida uma metodologia para avaliar o potencial da área de estudo, em termos de produção de alimentos para suprir as necessidades alimentares da população local, visando a autossuficiência alimentar. Na etapa de reflexão, apresentam-se os resultados da pesquisa e as contribuições teóricas. A presente pesquisa é inovadora, e corroborou a teoria acerca do potencial de produção de alimentos das hortas domésticas, em termos de segurança alimentar e autossuficiência das pequenas municipalidades, a partir do estudo realizado em Feliz/RS. Além disso, os casos de hortas domésticas analisados no estudo exploratório, revelaram que já existem inúmeras iniciativas de autossuficiência alimentar com diversa produção de alimentos na área de estudo, bem como disponibilidade de áreas potenciais de agricultura urbana, para ampliar essa atividade. / The following research proposal emerges from the reflection of our current food production system and cities supply and their consequences to the environment and to city people’s health. Presently, there is a movement towards food production comeback in cities, where the majority of the present world population lives. Such movement has the goal of reducing the environmental impacts caused by intensive farming, as well as providing fair access to healthier food, at more affordable prices. Sustainable development aims at resilient systems of production, as well as on safer and more self-reliant cities. A self-reliant city provides basic infrastructure, keeping it into its ecological footprint. During the search for alternatives for more sustainable cities planning, the concept of urban agriculture (UA) was identified, more specifically backyard food production. Home food gardens, considered to be one of the oldest ways of producing food, seem to be UA’s most successful strategy to increase family food security, besides providing a number of added benefits. This way, the main goal of this research is contributing to a better understanding on how residential food gardens can constitute a strategy to increase food security in cities, particularly in urban areas and small towns aiming a higher degree of sustainability. For the development of this study, two specific research strategies were used: literature review and case study. The research was carried out in three steps: comprehension, development and reflection. In the comprehension step, a literature review was made in order to better understand the subject and to look for subsidies for the following steps. In the development step, an exploratory study on the object of study was made. The object of study was the municipality of Feliz (RS), where the goal was to evaluate in what extent residential food gardens could supply a family’s necessities of food and what other benefits it could provide to urban inhabitants, and, on a second stage, a methodology was developed to assess the potential of the area of study with regard to food self-reliance. In the reflection step, the results of the research and theoretical contributions were presented. In addition, a sample of home food gardens were identified and analyzed, and showed that there are already various good initiatives aiming at food self-reliance in the area of study, being as well identified the availability of potential plots for expanding urban agriculture in the municipality’s area.

Som invånare i en alltmer global värld, är det kanske inte konstigt att man ibland känner sig liten. Städer växer och därmed kan känslan av att tillhöra ett grannskap lätt försvinna. En känsla av rastlöshet kan göra att det är svårt att hitta något att knyta an till. Man kan argumentera om människans natur, men att människor är sociala varelser som har ett behov av att interagera med varandra, kan nog de flesta av oss skriva under på. Publika platser bör därför fylla behovet av en plats där gemenskap kan växa, men trender inom stadsplanering verkar gå i motsatt riktning. Vi behöver platser, stigar och vägar som är ämnade för oss, där det finns utrymme för möten och samspel. Vi behöver en urban miljö som stöttar vårt vardagsliv och tillåter oss att bara vara. Cultural planning är ett tillvägagångssätt och koncept som har potentialen att sammanfoga glappet mellan stadsplanering och invånarnas behov. I vår studie identifierar och utforskar vi ett nätverk av personer och grupper som är involverade i cultural planning. I nätverket är terminologin omdiskuterad och anses problematisk, vilket ledde oss till våra frågor: Vad är cultural planning? Hur kan cultural planning som koncept bli mer etablerat? Hur kan nätverket inom cultural planning stärkas? Våra mål är att definiera konceptet genom att hitta dess karaktäristiska språk. Detta för att hitta ett gemensamt språkbruk som nätverket kan använda. Vi kallar detta för unboxing cultural planning. Huvudfokus i denna studie är konceptet cultural planning. Då konceptet är så pass omfattande och mångsidigt, kommer vi att undersöka det genom olika teoretiska perspektiv baserade på olika professioner, utifrån tre utgångspunkter; cultural planning som en term, som ett tillvägagångssätt och dess värdegrund. Genom att konstruera fallstudier och analysera dem genom fyra relevanta teorier, kommer vi göra ett förslag på hur konceptet och nätverket kan bli mer etablerat. / As citizens in an increasingly global and digitalized world, everyone feels small from time to time. Cities expand and at the same time the sense of belonging to a neighbourhood decrease. It is hard to find a way to root ourselves. While arguments occur over human nature, it is safe to assert that humans are social beings, and we have a need to interact with each other. Public spaces should fill the need of physical space were communities and neighbourhoods can meet, but trends in city planning move in different directions. We need places, paths and roads that are built for us, where there is room for interaction and encounters. We need an urban everyday life that allows us being human. Cultural planning is an approach and concept that has the potential to fill the void between city planning and citizens’ needs. When talking about tools in the field of cultural planning, we must ask what tools exist and how do we use them? In this thesis we identify and explore a network of people and groups involved with cultural planning, as well as the different tools associated with it. Within the network, the term cultural planning is discussed as problematic. This led us to our questions: How is cultural planning conceptualized? How can cultural planning become more established and recognized? And how can the cultural planning network be strengthened?Our goals are to unbox the concept of cultural planning by finding its language, and during our process help the network in their future work of communicating cultural planning. We call this unboxing cultural planning. The central focus of this study is the concept of cultural planning. Since the concept is complex and not yet established, we will examine cultural planning from three starting points. Using perspectives from different professions and practitioners, we explore cultural planning as a term, as an approach, and as a collection of core values. By constructing case studies and analysing them through four relevant terms, we suggest on how to widen the concept and network of cultural planning.

Changing weather patterns challenge societies globally and at multiple levels related to amongst others health, the environment, disaster management and mitigation. There is a need for greater flexibility and resilience, which in turn can be enabled through a transition towards increased sustainability in governance and infrastructure. Urban rainwater harvesting (URWH) is a term used in this paper to collect various approaches to the sustainable handling of rainwater in cities, a practice becoming increasingly common in some areas of the world. Global experiences can be useful learning opportunities in the planning, implementation and maintenance of sustainable urban rainwater harvesting in future smart cities. The aim of this thesis was to synthesize the factors of success of previous projects, in order to develop a framework tailored to the evaluation of projects concerned with rainwater harvesting. The review spans over 18 projects of different scale and design. The findings of the study show that successful URWH projects are: (1) found as part of urban renewal schemes; (2) successfully implemented by involved actors with open mindsets and flexible and collaborative working approaches; (3) maintained based on plans determined from the onset of the project, developed together with local actors, in order to involve the community and strengthen social inclusion. The revised evaluative framework, which is proposed as a result of the review, indicates general trends of success among the reviewed cases. To be fully operational, the framework should be further developed with additional URWH projects and revised thereafter.

Awareness of critical public health issues stemming from historical and contemporary environmental injustice has been growing, yet institutions are still working to identify how to respond. How do we transform University Health System infrastructure, in the built environment and affiliated community assets and human capital, to center equity and the lived experience of climate injustice in urban communities? Through the application of urban bioethical principles and examination of a public state-related university and its health system in a major U.S. city, I argue that the higher education institutional climate action planning process for medical schools and their attendant university health systems, in concert with public sector actors, can be a vehicle and accelerator for achieving health equity in urban communities and suggest what exactly that could or should look like. This thesis will look at the role of university health systems in addressing climate change and mitigating its impacts. More specifically, it looks to provide context for the influence of “meds and eds” in urban communities: how their status as anchor institutions and sites of economic development implicates their responsibility to anticipate the differentiated material experience of climate change. As sites of care delivery, medical education and training, and major employers these institutions have a duty to ameliorate the associated inequitable health outcomes of climate change. I provide a model for action by all urban university health system stakeholders with recommendations to sustain equitable resilience in the face of environmental crisis. / Urban Bioethics

This thesis will explore the possible obstacles among Region Stockholm municipalities in promoting adolescents’ mental health and well-being through experimental governance. The thesis will examine the municipal and non-municipal points of view on specifically promoting adolescents’ mental health and well-being through experimental governance in the Swedish context with the use of urban sustainability transitions and transition management frameworks. The urban sustainability transitions will help us understand the role of cities in creating new modes of urban governing processes. In addition, the use of a transition management framework will help us to understand the importance of shifting from traditional management approaches by rather placing greater focus on innovative and design-oriented methods. This approach highlights the importance of learning by doing process rather than a reaching specific destination. In addition, I will use a qualitative research design that uses the methods of semi- structured interviews. The empirical findings are analysed with the help of thematic analysis through the theoretical frameworks and concepts. It has been demonstrated an observable slow- paced adoption of experimental governance, insufficient specific promotion of adolescents’ mental health and well-being, and distant relationship between experimental governance and promotion specifically adolescents’ mental health and well-being in the urban planning process.

[pt] Tendo em vista que a sustentabilidade urbana é um dos principais desafios da atualidade em face do crescimento e do adensamento das grandes cidades e áreas metropolitanas, urge a necessidade de compreender a abordagem que está sendo dada ao tema dentro do contexto das intervenções urbanas mais recentes. Partindo da premissa básica de que não é possível haver desenvolvimento sustentável sem que seja considerada, em sua essência, sua característica multidisciplinar, a concepção de novos projetos deve abranger os aspectos econômicos, sociais e ecológicos de forma simultânea e integrada. A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo verificar se o projeto elaborado para o Porto Maravilha contribui para a sustentabilidade urbana ao longo da região portuária na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. A partir de uma reflexão teórica, foram elaborados critérios de análise geral que possibilitassem a compreensão de como os aspectos de sustentabilidade foram aplicados na região de maneira mais ampla e integrada. Por meio da pesquisa de campo, bem como dos documentos disponibilizados pela Companhia de Desenvolvimento Urbano do Porto do Rio de Janeiro (CDURP), foi possível realizar uma análise dos critérios estipulados previamente ao longo do trabalho. Por fim, por meio de uma representação cartográfica que sintetiza os resultados obtidos pela pesquisa, foi possível verificar que o Porto Maravilha não atende aos aspectos de sustentabilidade preestabelecidos pela metodologia proposta de forma equitativa, visto que não contempla sua distribuição de forma mais ampla e integrada entre os diversos setores do projeto. / [en] Given that urban sustainability is one of the current main challenges in what concerns big cities and metropolitan areas growth and densification, the need to understand the chosen approach for the theme in the most recent urban interventions urges. Considering the impossibility of sustainable development without taking in account it s essential multidisciplinarity as a basic premise, new urbanization projects conception must comprehend economic, social and ecologic aspects in an integrated and simultaneous way. This research aims to verifying if Porto Maravilha s Project in Rio de Janeiro city has contributed for the region s sustainability. Using a specific bibliography, general analysis criteria have been formulated to allow the understanding of how sustaintability aspects were applied in the region in the widest and most integrated way. Throughout field research and other documents it was possible to perform a sustainability analysis based on the criteria previously defined by the methodology developed throughout the paper. In conclusion, based on a cartographic representation which synthesizes the research results, it was possible to verify that Porto Maravilha does not comply with equality the pre-determined sustainability aspects proposed by the suggested methodology, given that it does not fulfil its distribution on the widest and most integrated way among the project s diversified sectors.

Many scholars and practitioners consider culture an essential ingredient of sustainability that is often underrepresented in the mainstream discourse on sustainability. However, in the last decade, the idea of culture as an agent of transformation capable of driving urban sustainability has gained momentum. New movements for urban sustainability tend to focus on the socio-spatial benefits and try to improve and activate the public realm by fostering socially innovative cultural practices as strategies for urban regeneration to create open, accessible, engaging public spaces for collective uses and cultural production. In many European cities, local authorities, civil representatives and citizens are experimenting with cultural production in the public sphere, driven by co-creation and governed collaboratively. As the public, private, and citizen spheres become more interlinked, the governments and urban and cultural actors are mobilising large networks to support organisations, collectives, grassroots movements, innovation labs, cultural innovators, and community representatives of marginalised groups to co-create and co-govern the city. This thesis investigates the different mobilisations of socially innovative governance arrangements for cultural practices that enhance urban sustainability and how these governance arrangements are being organised. To this aim, cultural governance forms the theoretical underpinning and several cultural practices in Berlin are analysed. Analysis of documents and semi-structured interviews were conducted, providing comprehensive results.  Findings revealed the various interactions between actors and sectors, the motivation and context behind the practices, and the kind of sustainable cultural practice they want to pursue. A dynamic range of mobilisations can be found within Berlin, where some were driven by activism or solidarity, and others were self-driven. Some were top-down arrangements, some self-organised, and others were bottom-up or grassroots which the government later adopted. Irrespective of how and why they were initiated, they are all underpinned by the aim of collaboration- both as co-production of the cultural practices and the governance of such practices. Furthermore, several common themes concerning cultural governance, such as the central role of the government, multiscalar collaborations, networks, and the cultural discourse, emerged as key aspects to consider for mobilisations for cultural governance.  Furthermore, the investigation also presents key aspects to consider when mobilising cultural practices. Finally, the authors call for further research and empirical evidence regarding the different aspects of CG to further its theoretical and practical advancements in cultural governance.

Accounting for the environmental and social impacts produced by the business or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), has arguably been one of the main topics and requisites within urban sustainability. Large companies having more impacts on the environment and the society due to amongst others the more diverse background of stakeholders and the more use of resources are more in the spotlight to implement CSR in their business. Companies which carelessly aim mainly for profitability and give less care to the environment are more and more proving to loose sustainability in their lifeline (Waldman, Kenett, & Zilberg, n.d.).This paper, using IKEA as a case study, has demonstrated the importance of CSR in larger firms. It has well demonstrated how and why large firms engage in CSR activities and how it could further enhance these activities in the upcoming demanding future. This has been done by presenting three theories, CSR communication, proactive and reactive CSR and motives for CSR. These theories principally show the effectiveness of CSR communication and a framework for successful internal and external communication; the difference and benefits of proactive and reactive CSR and which is more desirable; and finally the motives companies have to engage in both reactive and proactive CSR activities. With the help of these theories in the analysis section, this paper demonstrates how IKEA has used CSR in its framework to rebuild its reputation and how it has improved its sustainability by using proactive CSR strategies. The study further demonstrates how IKEA has proven that they are caring in gaining a sustainable future and presents some thoughts for further studies and practices.

A exemplo dos diversos métodos desenvolvidos mundialmente para avaliação de sustentabilidade no âmbito do edifício isolado e seus sistemas constituintes, surgem no horizonte novos sistemas de avaliação que consideram: o entorno, a vizinhança, o loteamento como um todo, enfatizando aspectos de desenvolvimento sustentável combinados às práticas dos chamados edifícios verdes, tais como o Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Developments Rating System (LEED-ND), desenvolvido nos Estados Unidos; o Approche Environnementale de lUrbanisme (AEU), desenvolvido na França; o Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Report Guidelines, desenvolvido pela ONU; entre outros. Enquanto aumenta a legitimidade do paradigma da sustentabilidade e sua pertinência para lidar com a especificidade do urbano, cresce a necessidade de selecionar critérios, estratégias e indicadores mensuráveis para ancorar a formulação, monitorar a implementação e avaliar os resultados das políticas urbanas em bases sustentáveis, de acordo com as diretrizes propostas pelas Agendas 21 Global e Brasileira. Por outro lado, o crescimento urbano das últimas décadas tem ocorrido de forma dispersa, por processos de deslocamento de atividades tipicamente urbanas para o campo, observado pela disposição das manchas urbanas nas imagens de satélites, que se dispõem como uma série de polos urbanos separados por vazios rurais. Inserido neste contexto da chamada urbanização dispersa, o parcelamento do solo através de loteamentos é uma das tipologias de expansão da área urbana que acarretará em significativas implicações na paisagem e, consequentemente, na atividade de gestão e planejamento urbanos. Portanto, com o objetivo geral de identificar, analisar e recomendar diretrizes para projetos de loteamentos urbanos, esta pesquisa realiza uma análise crítica qualitativa e comparativa dos diversos métodos de avaliação ambiental existentes nacional e internacionalmente, através de estudo de caso em um loteamento residencial, o Projeto Gênesis, em Santana do Parnaíba, município da Grande São Paulo. O resultado é um conjunto de diretrizes para auxiliar o processo de projeto de loteamentos urbanos considerando os requisitos e critérios dos métodos, contribuindo também para o aperfeiçoamento da legislação urbanística por parte dos agentes do poder público. / As many world-wide developed assessment methods for sustanability of isolated buildings and their constituting systems performance, new environmental assessment systems have recently been proposed, taking into account neighborhood, land sub-division and urbanistic issues. They integrate principles of smart growth, sustainable development and green building, such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Developments Rating System (LEED-ND), developed in the United States; Approche Environnementale de l\'Urbanisme (AEU), developed in France; Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Report Guidelines, developed by United Nations; and many others. With new sustainability paradigms and difficulties on dealing specifically with sustainable cities grows, there are needs on selecting criteria, strategies and measurable indicators in order to anchoring formulation, controlling implementation and evaluating results of the urban policies in sustainable basis, according to the proposed guidelines of Global and Brazilian Agendas 21. However, in the last decades, the urban growth has happened in a dispersed form, by displacement process of typically urban activities for the rural areas, observed by the urban spots disposal in satellites images, as many urban polar regions separated by rural or open lands. Inserted in this context called \"diffuse urbanization\", the land sub-division by plotting is a model of urban growth that would cause significative impacts in landscape and ecology and, consequently, in the activities of urban planning. Therefore, with the general purpose of identifying, analyzing and recommending guidelines, this paper brings qualitative and comparative critical analysis of the many locally and internationally environmental assessment methods for urban plotting, through a case study methodology for a residential plotting, the Gênesis Project, in Santana do Parnaíba, municipality of São Paulo metropolitan region. The results are a set of guidelines, that considers the requisites and criteria of each method, in order to help designers in urban plotting project process and to contribute the improvement of urban legislation by public agents.

Analisar a proposta de implantação do sistema de transporte coletivo denominado Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), no canteiro central da Av. Teotônio Segurado, considerando sua função atual como área verde para a cidade de Palmas - TO foi o objetivo geral desse estudo. Para isso, foi feita a apresentação e análise dos indicadores existentes sobre mobilidade urbana e áreas verdes para a cidade de Palmas - TO; a observação e compreensão da percepção da população sobre a mobilidade urbana e áreas verdes na cidade de Palmas – TO; a análise dos indicadores de mobilidade apresentados no Plano de Ação Palmas Sustentável para o projeto do BRT Palmas; a análise do projeto de BRT proposto para o canteiro central da AV. Teotônio Segurado em Palmas – TO; a verificação das temperaturas do ar e do piso no canteiro central da AV. Teotônio Segurado proporcionado pelo sombreamento da arborização existente. Para se alcançar os objetivos propostos, além da pesquisa de campo, a análise documental foi utilizada e foram consultados e analisados artigos, dissertações e teses, além do Projeto da Capital do Tocantins, legislações, Diagnóstico e Plano de Arborização de Palmas - TO, Plano de Ação Palmas Sustentável, Plano do BRT Palmas, entre outros. A pesquisa concluiu que a arborização existente nesse local é de suma importância para a cidade, uma vez que ocorrem diferenças de quase 2ºC nas temperaturas do ar e de até 20ºC nas temperaturas do piso entre as áreas analisadas com arborização e sem arborização. Além disso, dados estatísticos essenciais para a implantação do BRT não foram divulgados pela prefeitura, como demanda diária de passageiros ou pesquisa de origem/destino. Levantando-se a questão sobre a implantação de um sistema de mobilidade urbana de transporte coletivo, justamente, nesse canteiro central da Av. Teotônio Segurado, onde ocorrem maciços arbóreos consolidados. / An analysis of the proposal for the implementation of a public transportation system called Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) at Teotônio Segurado Avenue's central reservation, considering its current function as a green area for the city of Palmas - TO, was the main objective of this study. For that, it was made: a presentation and analysis of the existing indicators about urban mobility and green areas for the city of Palmas - TO; an observation and comprehensive perception of the population about urban mobility and green areas in the city of Palmas - TO; an analysis of the indicators for urban mobility presented at the Sustainable Action Plan for Palmas (Plano de Ação Palmas Sustentável) in the project for the Palmas BRT; an analysis of the BRT project proposed for the Teotônio Segurado Avenue's median strip in Palmas - TO; a verification of the air and floor temperatures at Teotônio Segurado Avenue's median strip, in relation to the shade from the area's trees. In order to achieve the desired goals, aside from field research, a documental analysis was used, as well as articles, dissertations and theses, in addition to the Project for the Tocantins Capital City (Projeto da Capital do Tocantins), legislations, Diagnostic and Afforestation Plan for Palmas – TO (Diagnóstico e Plano de Arborização de Palmas - TO), Sustainable Action Plan for Palmas, Palmas BRT Plan, among others. The research concluded that the existing forestation at this site is of extreme importance for the city, due to a difference of almost 2ºC in the air temperatures and of up to 20ºC in the floor temperatures with and without afforestation. Furthermore, essential statistic data for the implementation of the BRT were not disclosed by the Mayor's Office, such as daily passenger demand, or start point/destination of the trips. The question about the implementation of an urban mobility public transportation system is raised, in fact, at the Teotônio Segurado Avenue's central reservation, where there are consolidated massive tree structures.