What is Neighborhood Context and Why does it Matter in Sustainability Assessment?
| Autor: | Ravi S. Srinivasan, Ali Komeily |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Population 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Phase (combat) Sociology Balanced Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment Macro Function (engineering) education Environmental planning Engineering(all) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common education.field_of_study Management science Contextual Balance 021107 urban & regional planning General Medicine Dynamic assessment Sustainable community Sustainability Dynamic Assessment Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | Procedia Engineering. 145:876-883 |
| ISSN: | 1877-7058 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.04.114 |
| Popis: | The third decade into 21st century is expected to be a very crucial phase for cities and human life particularly when 70% of the population will be living in urban settings. This has created a strong need for transitioning cities toward sustainable communities. As a result, several neighborhood sustainability assessment tools have been developed worldwide. Although these tools are being continuously revised and improved, studies have pointed out that they lack context-specificity and suffer from “one-size-fit-all” vision. This is due to the fact that they rely on high-level rule-based measurement systems that provide overwhelmingly similar guidelines regardless of contextual characteristics. The goal of this paper is to raise this issue and demonstrate the variations in contextual characteristics. Defining “balance” in urban sustainability assessment from five different perspectives serves as a prelude to the focus of this paper which is contextual balance. Neighborhood context is defined as a function of numerous variables selected from physical, operational, socio-economic, environmental, and institutional points of views. To demonstrate the diversity of possible contextual outcomes, a series of cases studies are performed only on one of the variables in macro and micro levels. Finally, the results and recommendations are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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