Quality of the Built Environment in Urban Neighbourhoods

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Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank Prof. Elizabeth Burton, Prof. Katie Williams and Prof. Mike Jenks for their critical and valuable comments. Thanks also go to Dr Carol Dair, Morag Lindsay and Alma Clavin for their comments on earlier versions of this paper. The constructive comments provided by the anonymous referees are also gratefully acknowledged.

Notes

1. This paper forms part of the output from the core research programme CityForm—Sustainable Urban Form Consortium', funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under its Sustainable Urban Environment Programme (Grant number GR/520529/01) (available at http://www.city-form.org).

2. As the focus of the research reported here is on the associations between the built environment and everyday (social) life, other claimed economic and environmental benefits are not discussed here.

3. Social sustainability relates here to dimensions of social equity and community sustainability (including social interaction and networks, sense of community and place attachment as well as feelings of safety). For a detailed discussion of social sustainability, see Bramley and Power (forthcoming).