Sustainable neighbourhoods; urban planning; best practices
Abstract :
[en] Several urban neighbourhoods built or retrofitted from the 1990s have become renowned for their sustainability and are often presented as good practices, as far as sustainable development and low energy architecture are concerned. Although these “sustainable neighbourhoods” receive a great deal of media coverage, they seem to stay “single” experiments and are rarely repeated in other territories or at larger scales. This paper first discusses the European context, which fostered the development of these pilot experiments. It then proposes a rereading of eight famous sustainable neighbourhoods in an analytic way that is more than descriptive to highlight good practices to repeat and weaknesses to avoid and question the reproducibility of these experiments. The settings grid, which describes the achievement conditions and some common characteristics of these urban projects, highlighted through this analysis, is compared with a Belgian dwelling project, and this comparison allows us to explain why it can be difficult to extend these concepts more widely. Finally, the paper proposes several guidelines to promote energy efficiency and sustainability at the urban scale in order to support the planning of more sustainable urban projects.
Research Center/Unit :
LEMA Lepur : Centre de Recherche en Sciences de la Ville, du Territoire et du Milieu rural
Disciplines :
Architecture
Author, co-author :
Marique, Anne-Françoise ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur TLU+C > Urbanisme et aménagement du territoire
Reiter, Sigrid ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur TLU+C > Urbanisme et aménagement du territoire
Language :
English
Title :
Towards more sustainable neighbourhoods: are good practices reproducible and extensible?
Publication date :
July 2011
Event name :
27th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA)
Event organizer :
UCL - Architecture et Climat
Event place :
Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Proceedings of International Conference PLEA 2011 : Architecture & Sustainable Development
Editor :
Evrard Arnaud, Bodard Magali
Publisher :
Presses Universitaires de Louvain
ISBN/EAN :
978-2-87463-276-1
Pages :
27-32
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Funders :
DGTRE - Région wallonne. Direction générale des Technologies, de la Recherche et de l'Énergie
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