GUIDE TO PLANNING ECOLOGICAL TOWNSHIPS, A: SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AND PLANNING STRATEGIES

Population pressures and urbanization, together with the challenges of sustainable development, have, in recent decades, led to a proliferation of township developments which are termed "eco-cities". These townships seek to attain a wide range of social, economic and environmental sustainability goals. They adopt various quantitative targets or key performance indicators (KPIs) in a bid to substantiate sustainability claims in a number of common themes, for example, energy efficiency, water...