Abstract
Sustainability is a major concern of today’s world and researchers, stakeholders of different fields have been putting efforts to promote it in their projects, mostly focusing on environmental and economic sustainability. This paper sheds light on the third important pillar of it i.e. ‘social sustainability’ and aims at identifying factors that affect it. The study is concentrated on ‘urban parks’ as they are one of the dedicated spaces for social and cultural meetings. Parks are essential part of infrastructure and they are added to enhance the value of any real estate project. So it becomes important that rather than just adding it to merely satisfy the norms or enhance project’s aesthetic value, they should be consciously designed to cater people’s overall needs and to promote the sense of community. This study identifies twelve most crucial factors which affect social sustainability in urban parks and also a ‘key model’ showing their interrelationships is prepared which formulates the base for the development of design, policies and guidelines in order to improve social sustainability in urban parks. A formal framework can also be prepared based on the results of this study for the assessment of social sustainability in urban parks. Interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and MICMAC analysis are used as data analysis techniques which helps in clear understanding of different parameters based on their interrelationships.
Presenters
Aekta ThakurStudent, Master in Sustainable Architecture, National Institute of Technology, Himachal Pradesh, India
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Social sustainability; Urban parks; Interpretive structural modeling; Sustainable park
