Lifestyle and Sustainability

* The Origin of Urban Sprawl

* Social Consequences of the Urban
Sprawl
* Making Suburbs Sustainable
* Rehabilitating Cities
 THE ORIGIN OF URBAN SPRAWL
Urban Sprawl or Sub Urban Sprawl
- describes the expansion of human population away from
central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional, and
usually car-dependent communities in a process called
suburbanization.

Suburbanization

- is a population shift from central urban areas into

suburbs, resulting in formation of (sub)urban sprawl.
THE ORIGIN OF URBAN SPRAWL
 THE ORIGIN OF URBAN SPRAWL
Most historians would say that up until 1920,
we were a rural nation; after that, we became a
predominantly urban nation, and that lasted for
40 or 50 years.

* August 14, 1945, President Harry Truman announced

to the country that Japan had unconditionally
surrendered to the Allied forces in the Pacific.

* During the war years, the United States had been

almost solely in military production. Many non-military
sectors of the economy had stagnated, including house
construction.
THE ORIGIN OF URBAN SPRAWL
For example: Only 114,000 new homes were built in
the United States in 1994 (Jackson 1985). The short
fall in wartime was followed by rapid population
growth in the decade following the war. The surge in
housing demand led to a boom in housing
construction. This post-war housing boom resulted in
new residential settlement patterns and soon began to
be called URBAN SPRAWL.

* During this time the first use of urban sprawl

appeared, both in academic writing and in printed
media.
 Social Consequences of the Urban Sprawl
Causes of Urban Sprawl
a. Lower Land Rates
b. Improved Infrastructure
c. Rise in Standard of Living
d. Lack of Urban Planning
e. Lower House Tax Rates
f. Rise in Population Growth
g. Consumer Preferences
Social Consequences of the Urban Sprawl

Environmental Impacts of Urban Sprawl

a. Depletion of Energy Sources

b. Air pollution
c. Water Pollution and Degradation of
Water Resources
d. Loss of Landscape and Wildlife
e. Loss of Agricultural Lands
Social Consequences of the Urban Sprawl

Effects of Urban Sprawl

a. Increase in Public Sprawl
b. Increase in Public Expenditure
c. Increase in Traffic
d. Health Issues
e. Environmental Issues
f. Impact on Social Lives
 Making Suburbs Sustainable
What do they mean:

a. More use of public transport

b. Less Car Travel

 Making Suburbs Sustainable
c. Better Air Quality
d. Health
e. Less Pollution from stormwater runoff

f. Reduce Pressure on Land

 Making Suburbs Sustainable
g. Conserve citys natural setting, green space and
biodiversity

h. Lower infrastructure costs

i. Lower Housing Cost
j. Choice
 Making Suburbs Sustainable

k. Climate Change
 Rehabilitating Cities
The privileged in society are often able to
improve their quality of life, for instance by
moving to better neighborhoods or to the
countryside in order to escape from unhealthy
conditions.
Rehabilitate the urban environment
public and built space implies inhabiting
existing buildings, so that they can acquire
life and thus assigning movement to the public
spaces.
 Rehabilitation allows the reconciliation of the
urban society and city centre decline, provides
the social cohesion and minimizes the
environmental impact caused by urban
development.

It is needed the regeneration of the city

having into consideration a new ecological
dimension and in a kind of challenge, in search
of the environmental impact reduction caused
by the pollution from constructions and
everything that comes from these.
 Rehabilitating thinking about tomorrow,
about sustainability and in the most natural
way to apply it, using renewable energies and
design techniques that allows the non-usage
of fossil energies and mechanical means to
the heating, cooling, lighting and ventilation
in the built environment.
Making environmentally friendly cities,
not only on the built but also in a healthy
relationship between societies and built
spaces and the way societies view the
sustainability factor.