Sustainable Urbanism: 'Defining Sustainable Urbanism'

After exploring the idea of 'Sustainable Building', I wanted to expand on the idea of sustainability and have started researching into the idea of 'Sustainable Urbanism', which I briefly touched upon in the previous post. Whilst undertaking this research I came across several interesting papers addressing this issue of sustainability and urbanism and why sustainability is so important for an urban environment.

Sustainable Urbanism explores the idea of imagining a grand unification of architecture, city planning,and environmental design for a better way of life.
[Defining Sustainable Urbanism: Towards a Responsive Urban Design]

Sustainable Urbanism draws attention to the enormous opportunity to redesign the built environment in a  manner that supports a higher quality of life and promotes a healthy and sustainable...lifestyle.

Sustainable Urbanism grows out of three late 20th century reform movements that...highlight the benefits of intergrating human and natural systems. The smart growth, new urbanism and green building movements provide the philosophical and pratical bones of sustainable urbanism.
Sustainable Urbanism represents a generational shift in how human settlements are designed and developed.
[Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature]

Sustainability Integrated within the design process:'...buildings based on timeless fundamentals, such as the human experience of space...leads to the assumption that sustainability in architecture is about an attitude of making place and space'
[Sustainability on the Urban Scale: ‘Green Urbanism’]

Sources: Defining Sustainable Urbanism; Sustainability on the Urban Scale; UN Habitat; Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature