Sustainable City award 2003.
The City Government has
established and approved
a ‘Green Belt Boundary’
to ensure that forests are not
cleared to make way for
urban development.
The Government also has a plan to conserve existing areas of
biological diversity such as wetlands and ponds
(City of Oslo City Government, 2002 p. 33).
Enhancing the accessibility to green spaces is also part of this
sustainable strategy, in an attempt to increase the level of use
and interest in Oslo’s biological diversity
Sustainability features
A Municipal Master Plan has been drawn up which states
that housing and business developments take place through
urban intensification, which will target brownfield sites and
strategically situate new housing in relation to employment
(City of Oslo City Government, 2002).
Alongside this, Oslo has embarked on an Urban Ecology
Programme for the period 2002–2014, which targets
behaviour: an environmentally efficient public transport
system will be established, using renewable energy sources,
and environmentally friendly behaviour will be promoted
through partnerships with citizens and businesses.
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