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Development of alternative urban density scenarios to achieve a sustainable urban development for the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Romero, Maria Fernanda (2012) Development of alternative urban density scenarios to achieve a sustainable urban development for the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
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| Abstract: | A known an unavoidable reality is that the sustainability of the planet will be achieved in an urban development. When addressing sustainability one of the most important issues is the space consumption product of the urban development. Densities with which urbanized areas are occupied can have a significant impact on many aspects of sustainable development. Santa Cruz de la Sierra is a fast grown city with an index growth of 5, 2% and with around 2.000.000 inhabitants. This amount of people generates a spatial demand that is expressed in a sprawl fragmented city with low density and many problems to be addressed. The study faces the problem of the fast urban development of the city through different urban density scenarios base. The research approaches were: definition of Urban Sustainable Development, Collaborative Planning for the qualitative development and evaluation of the scenarios. The technical approach was the development of a 3D Model for urban density analysis and the modelling stage using Community Viz. This research resulted in different urban density alternatives in 3d models for the City of Santa Cruz de la Sierra according to diverse policy options that helped to understand the impacts of different policies and to evaluate them towards a sustainable urban development of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Results show that collaborative planning and scenario development are good tools to assess different impacts of policies options. The 3D model developed in this study could help to understand the impacts of the urban density in a more visualize way and could be a helpful tool to study how the urban context of a city may unfold after applying different urban density policies. Keywords: Urban Development, Collaborative Planning, Scenario Evaluation and 3D model |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | ITC: Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation |
| Programme: | Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation MSc (75014) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/93706 |
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