Comparative Analysis of Material Criteria in Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment Tools and Urban Design Guidelines: Cases of the UK, the US, Japan, and Korea

The purpose of this research is to develop an Urban Design Competition Proposals Evaluation System (UDCPES) based on the sustainability assessment at area scale, together with the evaluation process for China. The research studied the status quo and designed the evaluation process. And as core part of the research, UDCPES for an urban brownfield redevelopment design competition are established. Analysis of existing sustainability assessment tools for area scale and AHP method are applied here to define the evaluation items and the weighting system. The research adopted the concepts of sustainability assessment in urban competition proposals evaluation. Such an evaluation process and system can assist the decision maker evaluate urban design proposals more comprehensively and rationally than the traditional way, and easier to find the best one.

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A critical review of seven selected neighborhood sustainability assessment tools

Environmental Impact Assessment Review ◽

10.1016/j.eiar.2012.06.006 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 38 ◽

pp. 73-87 ◽

Cited By ~ 256

Author(s):

Ayyoob Sharifi ◽

Akito Murayama

Keyword(s):

Critical Review ◽

Sustainability Assessment ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

Sustainability Assessment Tools

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Sustainability Assessment Tools

Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-11352-0_300243 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1595-1595

Keyword(s):

Sustainability Assessment ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

Sustainability Assessment Tools

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Social criteria to develop an in use holistic urban sustainable assessment tool: UHU2SAT

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202123704031 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 237 ◽

pp. 04031

Author(s):

Antonio Sánchez Cordero ◽

Marta Videras Rodríguez ◽

Sergio Gómez Melgar ◽

José Manuel Andujar Márquez

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Sustainability Assessment ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Human Comfort ◽

Operation And Maintenance ◽

Holistic Assessment ◽

Sustainability Assessment Tools

Recently, several urban sustainability assessment tools (USAT) have appeared to reduce the human impact provided by the built environment. Few of them focus on the assessment of urban spaces like squares, streets, and parks, etc., but they don’t operation and maintenance (OM) phase is not considered. It would be necessary to develop an in use holistic urban sustainable assessment tool (UHU2SAT) to specifically assess urban spaces under OM phase. This paper provides a qualitative research among 188 studies, with the aim to classify them according to the impacts they pursue: environmental (ENV), social (SOC) economic (ECO) and Others. Finally, the SOC criteria are reduced up to 21 and arranged into 4 different groups: Human comfort, Urban mobility, SOC Cohesion, and Health & safety. These SOC criteria have been discussed and revised according to the literature review to identify the most suitable indicators for the UHU2SAT. Finally, it can be concluded that this methodology could also be useful to obtain ENV and ECO criteria to provide a holistic assessment of the sustainability.

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