Place (three dimensions): Places are a source of facts, identities and Economic sustainability (ES): Implies maximising productivity of local behaviours. Place is, to a certain extent, a social construct that helps people economy in relation to the sustainability of the other four dimensions. build a sense of belonging. Place can help transcend the nature/culture Social sustainability (SS): A set of actions and policies aimed at the dichotomy and integrate or reconcile opposite worldviews such as improvement of the quality of life through fair access and distribution of anthropocentrism and non-anthropocentrism. Place, as the acknowledgment of rights over the use of natural and built environment. Natural local conditions, constraints and opportunities. Place is also viewed as the sustainability (NS): Understood as the rational management of natural restricted realm of intergenerational equity. Permanence: Not only resources. Physical sustainability (PS): The capacity and aptitude of the maintenance of present conditions, it includes changes and improvements. urban built environment and techno-structures to support life and Permanence could be seen as the main realm of intergenerational equity as it is productive activity. Political sustainability (PS): Understood as the concerned with inter-temporal morals. Represents recognition that an democratisation of political capital, so that local society can use it to Persons: individual exists within each human being, each being similar yet regulate its relation with the four other dimensions. ‘person’ entirely different from those around them. Figure 3.4: Schematic representation of Seghazzo’s expanded model (left) and Allan’s model (right) (Sources: Seghazzo 2013; Allen 2001)
Place (three dimensions): Places are a source of facts, identities and behaviours. Place is, to a certain extent, a social construct that helps people build a sense of belonging. Place can help transcend the nature/culture dichotomy and integrate or reconcile opposite worldviews such as anthropocentrism and non-anthropocentrism. Place, as the acknowledgment of local conditions, constraints and opportunities. Place is also viewed as the restricted realm of intergenerational equity. Permanence: Not only maintenance of present conditions, it includes changes and improvements. Permanence could be seen as the main realm of intergenerational equity as it is concerned with inter-temporal morals. Persons: Represents recognition that an individual ‘person’ exists within each human being, each being similar yet entirely different from those around them. Economic sustainability (ES): Implies maximising productivity of local economy in relation to the sustainability of the other four dimensions. Social sustainability (SS): A set of actions and policies aimed at the improvement of the quality of life through fair access and distribution of rights over the use of natural and built environment. Natural sustainability (NS): Understood as the rational management of natural resources. Physical sustainability (PS): The capacity and aptitude of the urban built environment and techno-structures to support life and productive activity. Political sustainability (PS): Understood as the democratisation of political capital, so that local society can use it to regulate its relation with the four other dimensions. Figure 3.4: Schematic representation of Seghazzo’s expanded model (left) and Allan’s model (right) (Sources: Seghazzo 2013; Allen 2001)