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A critical review of seven selected neighborhood sustainability assessment tools
Ayyoob Sharifi,Akito Murayama +1 more
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In this paper, the issues of sustainability coverage, pre-requisites, local adaptability, scoring and weighting, participation, reporting, and applicability are discussed using a content analysis, and the results of this study indicate that most of the tools are not doing well regarding the coverage of social, economic, and institutional aspects of sustainability.About:
This article is published in Environmental Impact Assessment Review.The article was published on 2013-01-01. It has received 480 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainability & BREEAM.read more
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Low-carbon neighborhood planning technology and indicator system
TL;DR: Considering the significance of neighborhood planning on reducing carbon emissions, this paper proposed low-carbon neighborhood planning technologies from six aspects: layout planning, traffic planning, architecture planning and design, environment planning, municipal engineering planning and construction management.
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Economic and Environmental Impacts of Community-Based Residential Building Energy Efficiency Investment
TL;DR: In this article, a systematic framework for evaluating the local economic and environmental impacts of investment in building energy efficiency is developed, and a worst to first (WF) energy efficient investment strategy is adopted to optimize the level of various direct, indirect, and induced economic impacts on the local community.
Neighbourhood sustainability frameworks - a literature review
LJ Sullivan,Y Rydin,C Buchanan +2 more
TL;DR: A review of the current literature on these frameworks, as well as building-scale tools, to provide a milestone for future studies can be found in this paper, which identifies several gaps in the research of Neighbourhood Sustainability Frameworks, these include: their effect on the development process and planning, barriers to their uptake, and improvements to frameworks and the way they are used.
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Framework for measuring sustainability of neighbourhoods in Nagpur, India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a framework to measure sustainability at the neighbourhood level in an urban context in Nagpur, India, based on composite indicators such as demography, environmental, accessibility, infrastructure, speed and safety.
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Towards sustainable neighborhoods: Challenges and opportunities for neighborhood planning in transitional Urban China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a comparative study of the common characteristics for adopting neighborhood planning in four different countries and found that there is little support from national policy and local governance, ambiguous legislation on community public management, and inadequate public participation and a weak sense of community.
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