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Towards sustainable urban communities
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In this paper, the authors focus on internationally well known assessment tools; BREEAM Communities, CASBEE for Urban Development, and LEED for Neigborhood Development.About:
This article is published in Environmental Impact Assessment Review.The article was published on 2012-01-01. It has received 280 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban planning & Urban density.read more
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What are the differences between sustainable and smart cities
TL;DR: Analyzing 16 sets of city assessment frameworks for smart city and sustainable city frameworks suggests that there is a need for developing smart city frameworks further or re-defining the smart city concept, and recommends the use of a more accurate term “smart sustainable cities” instead of smart cities.
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Smart sustainable cities of the future: An extensive interdisciplinary literature review
Simon Elias Bibri,John Krogstie +1 more
TL;DR: The applied theoretical inquiry into smart sustainable cities of the future is deemed of high pertinence and importance—given that the research in the field is still in its early stages, and that the subject matter draws upon contemporary and influential theories with practical applications.
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Urban Transition Labs: co-creating transformative action for sustainable cities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the Urban Transition Labs (UTL) as settings in which real life trajectories of sustainable development in cities are deployed and at the same time carefully observed; in a co-creative collaboration between actors and researchers (transdisciplinary research).
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A critical review of seven selected neighborhood sustainability assessment tools
Ayyoob Sharifi,Akito Murayama +1 more
TL;DR: 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.
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A critical comparison of green building rating systems
Dat Tien Doan,Ali GhaffarianHoseini,Nicola Naismith,Tongrui Zhang,Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini,Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini,John Tookey +6 more
TL;DR: A systematic review of the development of green rating systems is presented in this article, where the authors identify the similarity, difference, strength and weakness of green ratings, and examine whether they fully assess the projects in all aspects of sustainability.
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Sustainable construction--the role of environmental assessment tools.
TL;DR: The main objectives of this paper are to examine the development, role and limitations of current environmental building assessment methods in ascertaining building sustainability in different countries and to discuss the concept of developing a sustainability model for project appraisal based on a multi-dimensional approach that will allow alternatives to be ranked.
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Urban ecological footprints: Why cities cannot be sustainable—And why they are a key to sustainability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe an approach to assess the ecological role of cities and to estimate the scale of the impact they are having on the ecosphere, showing that cities are causally linked to accelerating global ecological decline and are not by themselves sustainable.
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A critical review of building environmental assessment tools
Appu Haapio,Pertti Viitaniemi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the differences between the tools are discussed and the current situation within the tools is critically analyzed, and the benefits of using the tools should be analyzed. But the comparison of the tools and their results is difficult, if not impossible.
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The application of urban sustainability indicators – A comparison between various practices
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined 9 different practices and proposed a comparative basis, namely, International Urban Sustainability Indicators List (IUSIL), for allowing the better understanding of drivers and goals of each practice and identifying under what circumstances various practices selected their indicators.
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Life-Cycle Assessment and the Environmental Impact of Buildings: A Review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the building sector and highlight the importance of LCA as a decision-making support tool.
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