Abstract
The role of cities in sustainable development is increasingly prominent so much so that they have been defined as “the cornerstone of a battle to defend the planet”. Moreover, since the raising number of people living within a city will reach the figure of 5 billion by 2030, cities should prepare themselves through developing efficient planning and best practices. In this light, a large number of environmental assessment tools and frameworks have been developed to moving towards sustainability the cities. More recently the focus has been moved on neighborhoods and districts interpreted as the building blocks of cities and as the more adequate level for trigger and enhance citizens participation. The identification of the neighborhood as a basic planning unit results in various theories and models aiming to create better and more livable urban environment. The increasing awareness of the inadequacy of a development model based on a unlimited growth is pushing towards the concept of sustainable development and on the importance of the local level. In this framework, aim of the paper is to present an assessment framework developed in coherence with the CAT-MED urban model and tested in the Casal Bertone neighborhood in Rome.
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The CAT-MED model has been developed co-financed by the European Union- http://www.catmed.eu/index.php.
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3164 telephone calls were made for a sample of 400 useful interviews.
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The first question aim to rank the topics (social development, territorial redevelopment, energy efficiency, mobility), the other four questions aim to rank four alternative actions for each topic.
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Mundula, L. (2020). Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment: The Case of Casal Bertone Neighborhood in Rome. In: Monteiro, J., et al. INCREaSE 2019. INCREaSE 2019. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30938-1_48
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