Introduction: Culture and Sustainable Communities

Abstract

The wide-spread shift to a sustainability paradigm for city planning makes this an important point in time to identify opportunities to integrate cultural considerations into broader sustainability policy and planning initiatives and to align cultural planning to community sustainability approaches and goals. In both cases, strengthening the connections between growing intercultural realities and sustainable community development is required. This special issue takes as a foundational understanding that culture is by nature diverse and evolving, and intercultural realities and relationships must be incorporated as integral to any understanding of culture and sustainability in contemporary cities and communities.