Developing an urban sites’ assessmentmatrixto achieve environmental urban sustainability | ||
| Journal of the planner and development | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 31, October 2018, Pages 35-52 | ||
| Author | ||
| Zaynab R. Abaas . Zaynab R. Abaas | ||
| Abstract | ||
| According to the rising awareness and importance which the world has given today to the sustainability in all its environmental, social and economic dimensions, and according to the role in changing the design and urban planning path toward adopting new foundations compatible with the environment and harmonized with the surrounded circumstances of the urban site, this research seeks to develop an urban sites evaluation matrix to examine and assess the environmental potentialities which owned by the urban site and qualify it for building up sustainable urban projects. This is done by focusing on the environmental dimension and a series of environmental factors relied upon by urban developers around the world to achieve environmental urban sustainabilityand trying to lay the foundations which put sustainability into practice. Theresearchfinding represented by the possibility of activating the role of the environmental dimension and its factors and developing them into a new format of environmental criteriathroughdeveloping an evaluation matrix tested the possibility of owning urban sites of environmental potentialities and components that qualify them tobuild up sustainable urban projects and lead to the result of environmental urban sustainability. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| assessment; Urban Site; sustainability; Environmental dimension | ||
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