In the context of manifold crises across the globe, questions of sustainability are now more crucial than ever. It is essential our understandings of sustainability are both theoretically engaged and systematically translated into practice.
The ‘Circles of Sustainability’ profile process is intended as a way of developing an interpretative description of the sustainability of an urban region and its immediate hinterland. Here sustainability is understood in relation to local, national, and global processes: ecological, economic, political and cultural.
The profile template is intended as way of developing a more comprehensive understanding of an ‘urban region’—city, metropolis, town, municipality, village, etc.
By responding to the questions in the Urban Profile Questionnaire it is possible to generate a clear and simple graphic representation of the sustainability profile of that region.