Perdikogianni, I; Penn, A; (2006) Is urban diversity synonymous with urban sustainability? What do people “suggest” for Clerkenwell in London. In: Proceedings of the 2006 Annual General Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. (pp. p. 257). Canadian Society for Civil Engineering: Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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This paper draws on current research being undertaken under the VivaCity 2020 Consortium (EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environment (SUE) programme) and describes a “well-working” diverse area in London; Clerkenwell. It further builds up empirical evidence of the relationship between land use diversity and urban sustainability. It is often argued that a diverse urban environment can be seen as a positive component for sustainable urban communities. However, it is possible to find diverse areas, which fail to “work”. By identifying the absence of a robust definition of diversity, the paper describes Clerkenwell’s large-scale spatial and functional patterning in detail and identifies that it comprises a system of different centres of activity developed around locally strategic streets. Its occupational patterns emerged by observation-based land use, pedestrian and traffic flow surveys correlated with configurational measures that describe its structure. This paper suggests that cities should be understood as a dynamic product of a long historical process, based on the cause-effect relation between “physical city” (means) – “functional city” (ends). Then, urban sustainability although it refers to the ends, is always bound to means-ends binary relation

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