Planning and Design Approaches for Liveable, Self-Sufficient and Smart Neighbourhoods

Abstract

In the pandemic process, which captures most cities of the world and we are still in, there is a need for paradigm changes in the field of planning in terms of urban health and public health. For a resilient and prepared urban approach at the local level, a planning approach that requires an individual-oriented, public benefit-oriented, preserving ecological values, providing health care at all scale and creating a qualified public space hierarchy is required. Could compact settlement models be a development model that will increase the resistance of cities? Concentrated urban pattern is envisaged as a sustainable city model. Small-scale settlements with environmental growth control, defined border relations, and controlled access may perform more resistively. In this context, in the urban space hierarchy, the neighbourhood emerges as units that need to be emphasized and developed in a way that is self-sufficient and that will ensure the food and water security of its residents, in addition to the energy demand. In the face of the unavoidable increase of urbanization, crowding and urban chaos, it is now the time of the inevitable rise of the neighbourhood, which promises quality of life, for the future of human settlements. © 2023 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.