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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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Sustainable Communities, Neighborhoods, Cities And Their Criteria
D. Çınar Umdu,Ebru Alakvuk +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , sustainable neighborhood, community and city criteria, the mentioned urban units were determined, defined, and interpreted through 18 assessment tools, guidelines, standards, and models in total.
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Environmental performance evaluation of district using 4d-gis
Hiroyoshi Morita,Kenji Sugimoto,Hirokazu Kato,Akito Murayama,Satoru Iizuka,Naoki Shibahara,Yoshitsugu Hayashi +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a model was developed to predict a house-rebuilding trend and to comprehensively evaluate residents' quality of life (QOL), amount of CO2 emission, and the urban maintenance cost, which was aimed at evaluation of future spatial plans and the environmental performance of the built-up areas on a time-series basis.
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Developing an Indicator System to Monitor City’s Sustainability Integrated Local Governance: A Case Study in Zhangjiakou
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper developed an indicator system to monitor Zhangjiakou city's sustainability, which integrated local governance into an extended three-pillar evaluation model as the fourth dimension through the involvement of over 30 local government departments.
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