Tools for Measuring Progress towards Sustainable Neighborhood Environments
Open Access
- 3 September 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Sustainability
- Vol. 1 (3), 612-627
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su1030612
Abstract
Various assessment tools are available to assist designers, developers and regulatory bodies to reduce the negative impacts of contemporary multi-housing subdivision projects in industrialized countries. These tools vary considerably in what and how they measure and how the measurement results are presented and interpreted. This paper is largely a desktop study of subdivision assessment tools developed in Australasia, Great Britain and the United States of America. The paper identified a variety of themes and sub-themes that support assessment tools at both the project design phase and the project operational phase. These themes and sub-themes revolve around one or more of the three pillars of sustainability—namely the environmental, economical and social pillars. The paper firstly compares the themes and sub-themes of the assessment tools and then relates those themes to a set of sustainability targets produced for a proposed inner suburban housing subdivision in Perth, Western Australia.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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