CONTEMPORARY UNDERSTANDING OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND NEW TRENDS OF NEW URBANISM

Nowadays, sustainable development of cities is understood as development in the spirit of an urban trend called New Urbanism. New Urbanism is now the most important international planning movement and is about raising our quality of life and standard of living by creating better places to live. One of the basic principles on which this trend in urbanism is based is the principle of sustainable development. The principle of sustainable development is recognized today as the fundamental principle of the development of the world and for many years finds its expression primarily in documents adopted at the forum of the United Nations (UN). The role and significance of cities as essential human centres remains also recognized and unchallenged for the implementation of sustainable development policy. This study presents the current interpretation of the concept of sustainable development, including sustainable urban development in particular, adopted by the UN in 2015 and its correlation with the new trends emerging in New Urbanism. The result of interdisciplinary dogmatism and literature researches is an indication of whether and how New Urbanism influenced the current understanding of sustainable (cities) development at the level of international regulation and policy, on the other hand how contemporary sustainable development policy can further influence the formation of New Urbanism movement in urban planning and financing. The study raises such important issues for contemporary urban development as participation and social justice through housing and transport design and construction, environmental protection and climate policy, heritage and cultural tradition. In the conclusions, the authors point to deficiencies in the interaction between sustainable development policy and New Urbanism and the need to set new priorities in the development of modern cities at the level of international regulations and policy.