Abstract
Urbanization is a global societal trend where the proportion of people living in cities increases while the proportion of people living in the country side diminishes. Sri Lanka is in the phase of development after the end of civil war. For the past few years, Sri Lankan cities are urbanizing at an unprecedented scale and expected to rise further in future. Therefore, we are facing many challenges to ensure the development in a sustainable manner and to guarantee the high standard of living to all citizens. Standards contribute sense of urgency to improve urban quality of life by improving energy efficiency, increasing resource efficiency, increasing public safety, planning urban development, developing services and infrastructure, improving transport system, intelligent use of resources, creating more livable environment, reducing impact to bio diversity and ecosystem and acting to mitigate climate change.
Highlights
More than half of the world’s population resides in urban areas and United Nation projections suggest that this number will swell to about 60 % by 2030 and more than 6 billion people, almost 66 % will be living in urban areas by 2050 (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2014)
As far as Sri Lanka is concerned, urban areas are home to 20 % of the population and urban dwellers are expected to grow by 40 % in 2030 and 50 % by 2050 as people search for a better quality of life (Central Bank of Sri Lanka, 2014)
This paper has pointed out many crucial issues found with urbanization and their impact on urban quality of life and sustainable development
Summary
30 years war in Sri Lanka, government initiated rapid urban development projects to revitalize cities and create more urban space for its growing inhabitants due to escalating urban migration and sprawl This has resulted significant negative impacts for health and quality of life in urban environment. Standards would provide framework and incentive mechanism for propose, plan, implement and monitor sustainable urban development projects It would give the much needed momentum to Sri Lanka in achieving vision of “sustainable and inclusive economic growth with equitable access to quality social services, strengthened human capabilities and reconciliation for lasting peace” by 2030. This paper illustrates how standards act as pillars in urban quality of life and sustainable urban development in Sri Lankan context
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