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System Dynamics for Sustainable Urban Planning

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Sustainable Cities and Communities

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Urban development; Urban planning; Urban simulation; Urban sustainability; Urban transition

Definition

Urban Dynamics analyzes the dynamics of the urban life cycle in order to answer a number of pressing questions: What makes cities develop sustainably or grow chaotically? What can be done to revitalize deprived or stagnant urban areas? What kind of urban management programs have to be implemented in order to sustainably harvest urban resources and enable a harmonious development of city areas? Urban Dynamics is above all a method that integrates the design of a dynamic model and the provision of scenarios for public decision-makers. By doing so, Urban Dynamics is able to produce useful tools, helping in the perception of present trends, and inform on how to proceed so that preferred future outcomes are achieved. It also explores the effects of various changes in urban management policies and identifies their systemic impacts.

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This project has received funding from ERASMUS + Programme of the European Union (Jean Monnet Excellence Center on Sustainability, ERASME)

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  1. Jean Monnet Excellence Center on Sustainability (ERASME), University of Clermont-Ferrand (UCA), Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Arnaud Diemer & Claudiu Eduard Nedelciu

  2. University Clermont-Auvergne, CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Arnaud Diemer

  3. Earth Science Institute, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Claudiu Eduard Nedelciu

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

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  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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Diemer, A., Nedelciu, C.E. (2020). System Dynamics for Sustainable Urban Planning. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Sustainable Cities and Communities. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71061-7_115-1

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