The Bigger Picture en Route to Informed Urban Environments

Abstract

The chapter sketches out a route for developing informed urban environments as an effective approach towards addressing complex sustainability problems especially for urban areas. The main thesis is that this can be initiated by linking the fields of sustainability science, urban science, and architectural science, based on shared inter- and transdisciplinary, as well as data-integrated approach with the aim to arrive at a framework that is both instrumental and problem-oriented. To commence this effort focus is placed on reviewing the main features, discourses and data-related approaches in sustainability science, urban science, and architectural science with the aim to identify potential connecting points and overlaps between these fields.