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Urban Sustainability: Multifunctional and Multipurpose Planning of Urban Space

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The multifunctionality of urban elements is inevitable in the growing complexity of cities to make highly nested social and spatial contexts resilient to unexpected conditions. The “multifunctional spaces” concept is used besides the mixed-use, multi-use, and multi-purpose definitions, often without any distinction. Designing multifunctional urban elements increases urban spaces’ life cycle and life duration and balances supply and demand in an urban context. This entry provides an overview of the concept of multifunctionality using the descriptive approach. Notably, the study inquires, “Does the relationship between urban networks and urban elements support alterations in the usage of lands at different urban scales in different circumstances and times?” Multifunctionality is a powerful tool to plan a socially sustainable urban environment in the increasing complexity of cities, and it is a metric for adaptation to new circumstances.

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Lotfata, A. (2022). Urban Sustainability: Multifunctional and Multipurpose Planning of Urban Space. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_336-1

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