Including local actors' perspective in neighborhood sustainability assessment: evidence from Dubai's sustainable city

What is it about?

Existing Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment (NSA) tools such as LEED-ND and BREEAM Communities are widely criticized for a lack of transparency in the selection of indicators and an unbalanced focus on specific sustainability dimensions. The paper examines how the expectations and use values of the professionals and residents involved in developing, designing, managing, and living in a sustainable neighborhood can shape sustainability indicators that affect progress towards project goals. Taking as its focus The Sustainable City (TSC), a neighborhood in Dubai UAE, the paper develops data from in-depth, go-along interviews with 46 different actors.

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