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Environmental sustainability is a feature of contemporary universities that play a pivotal role in leading their societies to achieve comprehensive sustainable development regionally and globally through education, learning, scientific research, community service, and environmental development. Hence, the current paper seeks to propose a framework of an environmental sustainability-oriented Egyptian university considering the experiences of Waterloo University (Canada), Griffith University (Australia) and Aswan University (Egypt) and the Egyptian cultural context that enables it to tackle environmental dangers. Accordingly, the paper relies on the Brian Holmes’ Problem Solving Approach employed in comparative educational studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the common practice and the regulatory requirements related to the urban planning of our cities continues to define environmental quality through compliance with urban planning codes, the inadequacy of this parameter is increasingly evident. For this reason, numerous urban regeneration programs, and above all urban sustainability assessment standards, evaluate the environmental sustainability levels and livability, as if they were a project indicator. The paper describes the most consolidated indicators and proposes the use of the livability indicator of the public space promoted by the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona with some modifications that make it more consistent with the Milanese and Italian context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes the first steps and subsequent developments of an experimental approach - through the actions carried out by the Reggio Calabria Operational Unit in the "Re-Cycle Italy" PRIN1 and developed in further subsequent research - aimed at regenerating the degraded landscapes2 in the urban margin areas of the "horizontal city" in Southern Italy. The result of the research is a proposal of a settlement model in which to hypothesise an "ecological transition". From the "horizontal city" that exploits primary resources and produces urban waste and fragile territories, to a model of "metropolis landscape" that is based on modern widely shared principles of urban recycling, sustainable development, sharing and participation, circular economy and the care of the landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]