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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Social sustainability in Swedish urban development - what does it mean? : A casestudy of three Citylab Action pilot projects / Social hållbarhet i svensk stadsutveckling - vad innebär det? : En fallstudie över tre Citylab Action-pilotprojekt

Liljefors, Pontus January 2016 (has links)
Cities around the world are facing challenges of rapid population growth, social inequality, environmental degradation and climate change. Within the realm of planning and policy, one answer to these issues has been the invention of certification systems to support the transition to a sustainable urban development. In the last ten years a number of certification systems for sustainable urban development on neighbourhood level have been developed, such as BREEAM Communities and LEED Neighborhood Development. Though an important contribution for a systematic way to treat sustainability in urban development, such systems have been criticised in a number of criteria, among which an important deficiency is their lack of factors for social sustainability. A new Swedish certification system for neighbourhood level, Citylab Action, is since January 2016 being tested in a pilot round with twelve Swedish urban development projects. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate how three of the pilot projects worked with social sustainability and within which areas the Citylab Action Guide best could be developed to support socially sustainable urban development. The following research questions were formulated: What is a relevant understanding of social sustainability for contemporary urban development drawing on the academic literature? How do the selected Citylab Action projects understand and work with social sustainability? What are projects’ key challenges for creating socially sustainable neighbourhoods? What are the projects’ experiences with Citylab Action in relation to their work with social sustainability? The thesis had a critical approach and took ground in a literature study, which rendered an analytical framework and the normative standpoint that social sustainability needs to be concerned with increasing social justice. Täby Park, DrottningH and Masthuggskajen were selected as cases, and studies involved interviews with two civil servants from each project and analysis of planning documents related to the projects’ work with social sustainability. An analysis of the empirical material was carried out underpinned by the analytical framework, which contained the questions: How is social sustainability (implicitly) defined and operationalised? How is the project oriented in regards to the dualism of development and maintenance? Who is considered in the development of the district? Results showed theoretical understanding of social sustainability, as well as operational work, were very different between projects. Synthesis suggests a key challenge for the projects’ work with social sustainability concerns the tendency of marginalising people with less purchasing power. For the development of the Citylab Action Guide to better support socially sustainable urban development, four proposals are given. The Guide should include: more aspects for how to work with existing inhabitants, more distinct aims for projects to execute a comprehensive analysis of the effects on segregation patterns, more attention to the creation of affordable apartments and socially mixed housing, and aims for considering the seven discrimination grounds and socio-economic status in the outcomes of planning. / Städer världen över står idag inför svåra utmaningar såsom befolkningsökning, växande klyftor ökande resursanvändning och klimatförändringar. Ett svar på dessa utmaningar har inom policy och planering varit utvecklingen av certifieringssystem för att stödja övergången till en hållbar stadsutveckling. De senaste tio åren har ett antal certifieringssystem för hållbar stadsutveckling på stadsdelsnivå utvecklats, såsom BREEAM Communities och LEED Neighborhood Development. Dessa verktyg har utgjort ett viktigt steg framåt för ett systematiskt arbete med hållbarhet i stadsutveckling, men också kritiserats för att vara otillräckliga på flera punkter, däribland i sin behandling av social hållbarhet. Ett nytt svenskt certifieringssystem för stadsdelsnivå, Citylab Action, testas sedan januari 2016 i en pilotrunda av tolv svenska stadsutvecklingsprojekt. Föreliggande uppsats avsåg att undersöka hur tre av dessa pilotprojekt har arbetat med social hållbarhet, samt inom vilka områden Citylab Action-guiden kan utvecklas för att på bästa sätt stödja socialt hållbar stadsutveckling. Följande forskningsfrågor formulerades: Vad är en relevant förståelse av social hållbarhet för dagens stadsutveckling utifrån den akademiska litteraturen? Hur förstår och arbetar de utvalda Citylab Action-projekten med social hållbarhet? Vad är projektens största utmaningar för att skapa socialt hållbara stadsdelar? Vad är projektens erfarenhet av Citylab Action i förhållande till deras eget arbete med social hållbarhet? Uppsatsen utgick från en kritisk ansats och tog avstamp i en litteraturstudie, som utmynnade i ett analytiskt ramverk och den normativa hållningen att arbetet med social hållbarhet måste innefatta en ambition att öka den sociala rättvisan. Täby Park, DrottningH och Masthuggskajen valdes som fall, och studien innefattade intervjuer med två tjänstepersoner från varje projekt och textanalyser av plandokument som var kopplade till projektens arbete med social hållbarhet. En analys av det empiriska materialet gjordes utifrån det analytiska ramverket, som innehöll frågorna: Hur är social hållbarhet (implicit) definierat och operationaliserat? Hur är projektet orienterat i förhållande till dualismen mellan utveckling och bevarande? För vem görs utvecklingen av stadsdelen? Resultaten indikerade att förståelsen av social hållbarhet, liksom det operationella arbetet, var mycket olika projekten sinsemellan. I sammanvägningen av de olika fallen framstod tendensen att marginalisera människor med små ekonomiska resurser att vara en av huvudutmaningarna för att skapa social hållbarhet. Fyra förslag ges på vad som skulle kunna ändras i Citylab Action-guiden för att på bästa sätt stödja utvecklingen av socialt hållbar stadsutveckling: Om guiden är ämnad att användas för befintliga stadsdelar bör den omfatta fler aspekter kring att ta hänsyn till och adressera befintliga invånare. Guiden bör innehålla tydligare mål för analys av hur projektet påverkar segregationsmönster. Guiden bör ge mer uppmärksamhet till skapandet av billiga lägenheter i socialt integrerade stadsdelar. Guiden bör innehålla mål för att beakta de sju diskrimineringsgrunderna och socio-ekonomisk status i planeringens fysiska resultat och inte bara i planeringsprocessen.
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Assessment and analytical framework for sustainable urban planning and development : A comparative study of the city development projects in Knivsta, Norrtälje and Uppsala

Hussein, Wasan January 2016 (has links)
This thesis examines how the three urban development projects: Nydal, Norrtälje Harbor and Rosendal address the energy use in future buildings and how their energy strategies are articulated in relation to requirements specified in the SGBC’s certification system Citylab Action. The building Smaragden in Rosendal has been used as a model of a future building in the two other district areas in order to calculate the energy performance in each project, this by using the energy use simulation software IDA ICE. Further on the energy mix for each district area has been analyzed in order to determine the renewability rate for them. The results shows that the energy performance of Rosendal was 60,8 kWh/m2/year and the heat mix was only 7,92 % renewable. Nydal has an energy performance of 45,4 kWh/m2/year and their heat mix was 76,80 % renewable. Norrtälje Harbor had the energy performance of 70,9 kWh/m2/year and their heat mix had the renewability rate of 79,60 %. Comparing these three projects, the Nydal project was the most sustainable when it came to the energy performance since it had the lowest rate. Norrtälje Harbor had the highest percentage of renewable energy sources for their heat mix since they use almost 100 percent biofuels. Considering the Citylab Action certification, both Norrtälje Harbor and Rosendal have chosen to certificate their urban development projects according to Citylab. The Nydal project has not yet chosen the Citylab Action certification but they are considering the idea of following its principles anyway and may in the future get certificated according to Citylab Action. Looking at the energy strategies of Uppsala-, Norrtälje- and Knivsta municipality, Uppsala had the most structured energy strategy. They have specified clear goals, measures and follow-up process. Knivsta-and Norrtälje municipality are going to develop their energy strategies in the near future.

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