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Sustainable Cities and Communities pp 851–860Cite as

Urban Lifestyles and Consumption Patterns

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Quality of life in cities; Urban sustainability

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Urban lifestyles relate to the way of living adopted in densely populated human settlements and to the conditions and the quality of life in cities. Although different in size, spatial structure, resources availability, social, cultural, and economic characteristics, all cities merge natural with built environments. However, presently and mostly in megacities, human intervention through time has faded out the natural presence to just a subtle shade. The built environment of cities is composed of buildings, communications, services, industry, commerce, and leisure infrastructures. Each city’s own activities are supported by the built environment and by the complex network of synergies and dependencies with other regions, local and globally, that provide for all kinds of resources and goods that cities require, generating the city metabolism. All these interconnections and linkages within the city and to the outside...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. UFP Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit, Porto, Portugal

    Gisela Marta Oliveira & Maria Pia Ferraz

  2. UFP Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit, 3ERL – Energy, Environment and Environmental and Public Health Research Lab, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal

    Diogo Guedes Vidal

  3. CNPq Research Group “Dynamics of Neuro-musculo-Skeletal System”, BAHIANA – School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

    Diogo Guedes Vidal

  4. Health Sciences Faculty, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal

    Maria Pia Ferraz

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  1. European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökçin Özuyar

  5. University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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    Samuel Borges Barbosa

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Oliveira, G.M., Vidal, D.G., Ferraz, M.P. (2020). Urban Lifestyles and Consumption Patterns. In: Leal Filho, W., Marisa Azul, A., Brandli, L., Gökçin Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Sustainable Cities and Communities. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95717-3_54

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