Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometric Serie Research Memoranda Sustainable Cities: Challenges of an Integrated Planning Appoach

i. This paper will identify specific pkuming conditions that arise when planning aims at sustainable development. First, attention will be paid to so&-ethical attitudes toward sustainability issues and to the reasons why much of the sustainability debate deserves an urban focus. Then, specific planning conditions will be discus & in relation to cities, such as a multiple actor situation, inertia in urban adjustment processes, and a segmentation in planning institutions. Furthermore, the paper will focus on economic behaviour in urban areas using urban sustainability as a broad frame of reference and emphasizing an increasing competition between cities. Then, attention will shift to urban policy in the field of environmental quality control (urban ecology). A necessary condition for the development of & integrated planning for urban sustainability is the development of urban environmental data systems. Attention will therefore, focus on the so-called CBD slructue of such information systems (Core