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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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A SP survey-based method for evaluating environmental performance of urban commercial districts: A case study in Beijing
Fang Wang,Yan Li,Xiaolu Gao +2 more
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors presented a methodology of meso-scale environmental performance assessment for urban commercial districts, integrating the indicators from three aspects, i.e. the environmental quality, the social and economic value, and the environmental load.
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Benchmarking critical criteria for assessing sustainability of residential buildings in tropical climate
Nina Lazar,K. Chithra +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the minimum and maximum benchmarks for sustainability assessment of residential buildings in the tropical climatic region of India were derived using the Delphi technique involving multiple rounds of verification.
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Assessment of the environmental quality of neighbourhoods in the context of sustainable development: case of the Plain West in Annaba, Algeria
TL;DR: In this paper, the assessment of the environmental quality of a residential neighbourhood of Plain West in Algeria by a shared diagnosis method for sustainable development "HQDIL" and the indicator repository "INDI" is presented.
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Green infrastructure and urbanisation in suburban Beijing: An improved neighbourhood assessment framework
Wei Zheng,Adam Barker +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an improved understanding of neighbourhood-level green infrastructure needs and developed a strategy to support a more adaptive and spatially sensitive approach to sustainable urbanisation. But, the focus of these studies was on city-wide or regional assessments.
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Measuring Neighborhood Quality of Life: Placed-Based Sustainability Indicators in Freiburg, Germany
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the social dimensions of neighborhood development in what some believe to be one of the most sustainable cities, Freiberg, Germany, and found a high correlation between QoL factors as a function of place-making and sustainability practice.
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