Smart Growth, Better Life

DOI

10.2991/icesame-17.2017.339How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Index-system, Smart Growth, Urban planning, Sustainability

Abstract

This paper describes an index-system to measure the success of smart growth of a city. Smart Growth Theory has the three-E's goal of Economic prosperity, social Equity and Environmental sustainability and ten principles concerning sustainable development. Firstly, I refered to a large number of reference materials concerning evaluation index system and Smart Growth, learning index construction methods and important indexes from them, and then I constructed four first-level indexes including Urban land-use system, Economic system, Social system, and Ecological system to assess whether the three E goals is well achieved in a city's urban planning. Then I refined the four first-level indexes into 8 second-level indexes to evaluate whether the ten principles are fully considered in a city's development. At last, I detailed the 8 second-level indexes into 25 quantifiable third-level indexes, so we can evaluate whether the growth pattern of a city is carrying out the Smart Growth Theory successfully, based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of the city's characteristics and deficiencies, and offer some guidance and suggestions for the city's further growth planning.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yun Li
PY  - 2017/06
DA  - 2017/06
TI  - Smart Growth, Better Life
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Education, Sports, Arts and Management Engineering (ICESAME 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1591
EP  - 1594
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icesame-17.2017.339
DO  - 10.2991/icesame-17.2017.339
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