Sustainability: an Approach in Planning to Raise the Quality of Life Through Open Space Development

Abstract

A presentation of the notion of sustainable development through the eye of a town planner, by elucidating how open space development would change the character of the city and augment towards harmony in the socio-environmental chords of sustainable development. It is an attempt to put forward awareness about the sustainability and environmental risk to ultimately reconcile ecological, social and economic factors of society. It is an attempt to reflect on socio-environmental dimension of the open space planning by addressing urban metamorphosis.

Keywords

• Sustainability
• Urban metamorphosis
• Environmental risk
• Diversity
• Open space development
• Quality of life