12.3.Achieving sustainability through project

continuance is depended on another growth; Ecological sustainability, through limiting the consumption of sources which are exhaustible; reducing the waste, pollution and recycling the sources; The sustainable spatial development, whose aim is to achieve a more balanced rural- urban institution and a better distribution of land; The cultural continuity which includes finding endogenous roots of renewal patterns, and farming systems and the processes that can create some changes in the cultural continuity.

Thus, sustainable urban development is one of the fundamental pillars of sustainable development, and the process of sustainable urban development can be discussed in this context. The target of sustainable urban development process is to achieve the status of "sustainability" in urban communities and also to create or to strengthen the sustainability’s characteristics of economic, social, cultural and environmental city.

Among the methodological and practical approaches that enables all the stakeholder to shape the sustainable urban development through a process that is inclusive, comprehensive and goal oriented is Symbiocity approach. This approach is a holistic and inclusive approach to sustainable urban development based on Swedish municipal experiences. SKL International and the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) use SymbioCity to help local, regional and national administrations around the world to plan and build sustainable and inclusive cities.

By focusing on the opportunities that urbanization offers, SymbioCity contributes to achieving Goal 11 – Sustainable cities and communities: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient & sustainable. However, the complexity of the cities determines that Goal 11 cannot be viewed in isolation and in reality, the only possibility for innovation and creation of innovative and sustainable solutions is only through observation of the existing challenges within the broader and more inclusive context. The Symbiocity approach is structured around the proactive idea of creation of a vision of the future urban development rather than a reactive approach to the existing problems58. This change in the approach enables all the stakeholders in the process to focus on the opportunities rather than to the obstacles. It provides an inclusive approach to sustainable urban development in most of its main dimensions: environmental, sociocultural, economic and spatial. It seeks to provide synergies in the three main dimensions of the urban life: environmental, socio-cultural and economic. In order to improve living standards, safety, comfort and quality of life it is based on comprehensive assessment of urban systems, tackling institutional factors and a profound and proactive actions in the spatial dimension of the society and cities. It is foreseen to be an approach that should enable sustainability in urban development by including stakeholders and citizens in the urban development process.

58 Through various working methods, SymbioCity enables cities to make sustainability assessments of their urban environments and develop solutions that are tailored to local conditions.