Explaining theComponents of Sustainability in Urban Communities
الموضوعات :Hamed Moztarzadeh 1 , Seyed Majid Mofidi Shemirani 2 , Vahideh Hodjati 3
1 - Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Branch, Department of Architecture, Shiraz, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
3 - Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Branch, Department of Architecture, Shiraz, Iran
الکلمات المفتاحية: Component, Sustainability, community, Sustainable communities,
ملخص المقالة :
Community is the main pillar of the urban body; and balance of social life in cities depends on preservingcommunities. During the twentieth century, the idea of residential-centered community has been offered in many moderntheories and has been widely accepted for solving urban various problems such as management, social and human relations,health and welfare issues and aspects of meaning and identity.On the contrary, the concept of sustainable urban development has been considered a scientific issue in all societies inrecent decades, when much of the literature on urban development has been allocated to the issue. The main argument ofthis paper is two issues of sustainability and urban communities, as well as how to link them in a topic.The paper will describe the necessity and importance of creating sustainable communities which have been originated fromthe consequences of climate change. Then, the concepts of sustainability and community are clarified; and finally thecomponents of creating a sustainable community will be examined.
