URBAN Eco- Villages

Eco village design is a new field of knowledge still under development .It will be the physical manifestation an increasing role in future urban development world –wide. In order to ensure ecological sustainability, cities around the world have to decrease their environmental footprint. The elements of eco villages includes sustainable design, definition and principles, the necessity of ecological design, green building and ecological architecture, the second element is infrastructure, recycling- water, sewage waste .the third element is permaculture finally is resource and energy consumption. Ecology is one of the important issues in creating sustainable residential areas like eco-cities and eco-villages. Today, development of cities and villages has created many environment damages and presenting some solutions to minimize these damages is useful. We should find a new model of residential area to fulfill with the new community requirements and create sustainable development in urban and village residential areas. The present study introduces and evaluates eco-village and how eco-villages have considered the concept of sustainability. Also, this study Evaluates how sustainability goals based on the main solutions of sustainable architecture can focus on three important criteria of ecology, society and culture. The study method is based on document and analytic descriptive study. Finally, some solutions are introduced to create eco-villages based on the criteria in sustainable architecture