SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT MODELS

Urban development has in view to integrate and optimize all the systems to achieve a new level of productivity, quality and efficiency. The efficient/smart cities are characterized by more importance given to environment, resources, globalization and sustainable development. This paper represents a study on the sustainable urban models that become more central to cities development. In the last century the urban models have progressed from structural models to static models to dynamic models. These urban development models can be classified in two categories: traditional urban models which usually simulate the urban system at a macro level and evolved models which reflect with accurately the dynamic, self-organizing, or emerging characteristics of urban systems.