An Optimization Model Fitting the Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment Tools

Carmela Gargiulo, Antonio Sforza, Claudio Sterle and Floriana Zucaro
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Carmela Gargiulo: Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II 1, 80125 Naples, Italy
Antonio Sforza: Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II 2, 80125 Naples, Italy
Claudio Sterle: Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II 2, 80125 Naples, Italy
Floriana Zucaro: Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II 1, 80125 Naples, Italy

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-16

Abstract: The phenomenon of rapid and unplanned urban growth, driven by the migration from rural to urban areas, has hindered healthy urbanization and undermined sustainable development. Sustainability assessment has become one of the popular terms in different fields, especially in architecture and urban planning, and world leading urban sustainability assessment tools have been proposed. Each tool is based on a set of weighted evaluation parameters, related to some main sustainability dimension (environment, economy, society …), and requires to reach a sustainability threshold. In this paper, after a brief review of the state of the art, a linear optimization model is presented, which aimed to find the minimum set of parameters needed to guarantee the sustainability threshold for each tool, taking into account all the sustainability dimensions. The model has been positively experienced with 144 input parameters belonging to five assessment tools. The tests prove that this procedure is able to summarize and overcome the choices made by the certifying bodies. Indeed the proposed optimization model selected 26 parameters of the five tools. The majority of the selected parameters are related to the environmental emergency that in recent decades has characterized—and still affects—urban systems.

Keywords: urban sustainability; neighborhood sustainability assessment; optimization model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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