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Równoważenie rozwoju małego miasta w XXI wieku – ujęcie teoretyczne
Sustainable development the 21st century small town in the theory

Author(s): Katarzyna Mazur - Belzyt
Subject(s): Social Sciences, General Reference Works, Sociology, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: sustainable development; new urbanism; contemporary town; neighborhood; local development

Summary/Abstract: The author, discussing the paradigm of sustainable development, refers it to the specificity of a small town. As a consequence, comparing distinctive factors influencing the development of a small town in a spirit of sustainable development, attempts to build a model of such a city, offering a tool for its controlling and monitoring in the form of a set of criteria. The article also attempts to answer two fundamental questions: first – what is the meaning of sustainable development, second – how the sustainable development of a small town differs from a broad sense of big city sustainable development?

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 23-34
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English, Polish