Open AccessUrban social sustainability: A concept analysis
Author(s) -
Andjelka Mirkov
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
sociologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.174
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2406-0712
pISSN - 0038-0318
DOI - 10.2298/soc1201055m
Subject(s) - sustainability , social sustainability , normative , interpretation (philosophy) , sustainability organizations , sociology , urban planning , sustainable development , sustainability science , environmental ethics , environmental planning , political science , geography , computer science , engineering , civil engineering , ecology , philosophy , law , biology , programming language
The paper analyses the concept of urban social sustainability in order to provide a systematization of the main ideas contained in various interpretations of the term. First, it deals with the problems and dilemmas in defining the term of urban social sustainability, showing complexity of the idea and disagreements about its interpretation. Then it discusses the relation between the main dimensions of sustainable development for the purpose of explaining the two complement approaches to urban social sustainability. One approach sees urban social sustainability as a mean of achieving environmental and economic sustainability, while the other approach analyses urban social sustainability as a value in itself. A significant part of the paper concerns the dominant concepts within the discourse of urban social sustainability. Normative principles and operational dimensions of the term may be derived on the basis of these concepts