Title: The institutional dimension of urban sustainable development

Authors: Luigi Fusco Girard

Addresses: Dip.to Conservazione Dei BENI Architettonici ed Ambientali, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Via Roma 402, 80134 Napoli, Italy

Abstract: Sustainable urban development consists of the intentional construction of a dynamic balance between the different logics of the private, public, social (or civil) and natural economic systems, through new organizational rules. These are the institutions. For a co-evolution of the four systems, they should not only ensure the conservation of natural and man-made capital, but also produce human and social capital. The production of social capital is the crucial issue for the sustainable development of cities without this form of capital, any strategy of institutional techno-modernisation (either decentralised or centralised) is bound to fail.

Keywords: evaluation; self-sustainable development; social capital; subsidiarity principle; urban development.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.1998.002236

International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 1998 Vol.10 No.1, pp.163-176

Published online: 13 Aug 2003 *

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