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Urban visual sustainability

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Sustainability emanates from the Brundtland Report and is generally accepted as being delivered to society through the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).[1]

Urban visual sustainability has been defined as "the process by which people are sustained and enriched in daily life through the visual relationship they hold dear to their surroundings." [2] While this definition has caught the attention of a growing number of researchers of the public realm, [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] the idea of a visual relationship which people hold dear, and its associated metric, is absent from the SDGs. This omission means that urban visual sustainability or visual sustainability of the built environment, and/or its relevance to urban design strategy, can be considered a topic worthy of consideration in its own right.

Urban visual sustainability in context

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Examples of sustainability include environmental sustainability, economic sustainability, social sustainability as well as other forms of sustainability such as tourism sustainability[8] [9] and graphic design visual sustainability.[10] The metrics used to quantitatively define these categories remain ambiguous and unconvincing. [11] [12] [13] [14]

The Importance of Visual Sustainability in Urban Design Strategy [15] addresses visual sustainability of the built environment using visual interaction type as a metric and accommodates both qualitative and quantitative data.

Invisible City [16] (an adaptation of The Importance of Visual Sustainability in Urban Design Strategy) endorsed by a leader in smart cities, Dominik Tarolli, [17] at the ESRI 2025 Geodesign Summit, [18] is an example of the attention leading industry figures are paying to urban visual sustainability because there is value locked up in the idea of an invisible city. The value is generated by the invisible nature of smart city technology. [19] [20] [21] [22] because it affects communities and not just objects.

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