Comparative Review of Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment Tools

Pasqualino Boschetto, Alessandro Bove and Elena Mazzola
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Pasqualino Boschetto: Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (DICEA), University of Padua, 35131 Padova, Italy
Alessandro Bove: Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (DICEA), University of Padua, 35131 Padova, Italy
Elena Mazzola: Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (DICEA), University of Padua, 35131 Padova, Italy

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 5, 1-14

Abstract: The paper aims to evaluate criteria for appraising the existing urban transformation projects in view of the social dimension of sustainability. Within the case study of the recovery project of “G. Prandina” barrack in Padua, north-east of Italy, the paper compares two different Italian rating systems to evaluate neighborhood sustainability: “GBC Quartieri” and “ITACA Scala Urbana”. The GBC Quartieri rating system, with a point scheme, allots credits for neighborhood design features, and integrates the environment, infrastructures, and buildings for the creation of sustainable communities with a relationship net and a pre-existence connection. The “ITACA Scala Urbana” procedure consists of a multicriteria evaluation of the environmental sustainability and the compilation of a group of worksheets, one for each different internal performance indicator. The results show the main differences and analogies among the different tools, and this analysis confirms that new neighborhood protocols originating from building rating systems dedicate little space to social aspects and to the concept of inclusion, instead of the newly developed neighborhood protocols. Through this examination, the research can also conclude that the identification of common macro-areas is present, which highlights the different levels of importance given to the various features connected to social sustainability in neighborhood transformation.

Keywords: neighborhood sustainability assessment; GBC Quartieri; ITACA Scala Urbana; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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