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The need to steer our development towards a more sustainable future is ever more imminent in the light of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Urban areas bear much of the blame and burden and interventions towards urban sustainability may have the greatest impact. Despite increasing interest in urban sustainability, from both the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world, its clear definition and especially its measurement and monitoring is still a cause of ...

The global collapse of the environment is inevitable. Developed states should work alongside developing countries to make sure that their economies do not contribute to increasing pollution problems. Today's politicians should think about supporting pollution reduction programs rather than expanding industrialization as much as possible. Environmental conservation strategies should be accepted on a global scale, and people should start thinking about a significant reduction in energy consumption without sacrificin...

In recent years, the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world, have gradually turned their attention towards the matter of life quality, both from an ecological, as well as from a socio-economic point of view – particularly in relation to the realities of the urban environment. Within contemporary cities, collective housing neighborhoods concentrate the highest densities of housing units, thus offering shelter to a large percentage of the population. These developments therefore have the l...