What is it about?
From Ebenezer Howard’s concept of garden cities to visions of the sustainable development of ecocities, people have engaged in numerous attempts to curb hazards of residential environments and excessive capitalized development resulting from mass industrialization. this study conducted a qualitative and quantitative analysis of internationally renowned assessment tools and tools used in developed Asian countries
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Why is it important?
many countries have adopted widely used green building assessment tools to conduct neighborhood sustainability assessment of ecocities. An ecocommunity assessment tool of Taiwan was established according to current green building policies, the content of which focuses on technological aspects rather than on the closely correlated social and economic aspects within ecocities.
Perspectives
This study concluded that (a) a number of countries have proposed neighborhood sustainability assessment tools that strongly emphasize resource and energy categories but neglect economic development; (b) the neighborhood sustainability assessment tools in Asia possess special characteristics; and (c) indicators of neighborhood sustainability assessment tools must enable mutual links and public participation.
Ph.d. student kuanwen lin
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
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This page is a summary of: The comparative analysis of neighborhood sustainability assessment tool, Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, September 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0265813516667299.
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