“The challenge of the twenty first century urbanism is to create sustainable mixed use communities with a high quality public realm”

The challenge in the increasingly urbanised world of the twenty first century, the challenge for urbanism is to find solutions to the major problems facing our towns and cities: the control of sprawl, sustainable growth, integrated transport systems and better quality urban environments and public realm.
Creating neighbourhoods that are diverse, varied in use, walkable, human scaled and identifiable by the high quality of their public realm can contribute to this process.

With increasing globalisation, our efforts to create such neighbourhoods and communities should be seen as the essential ingredients of sustainable urbanism. Against the backdrop of a wider agenda – “The need to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” – sustainable urbanism is crucial to the future of our island and our planet.

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