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. 2023 Jan 10;26(2):105951.
doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.105951. eCollection 2023 Feb 17.

Measuring the sustainability of neighborhoods: A systematic literature review

Mahsa Khatibi  1   2 , Khairul Anwar Mohamed Khaidzir  1 , Sharifah Salwa Syed Mahdzar  1
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Measuring the sustainability of neighborhoods: A systematic literature review

Mahsa Khatibi et al. iScience. .

Abstract

Neighborhoods have received worldwide interest in sustainability assessment due to their suitable scale for representing the relationship between the individual and the city. Consequently, this has led to a focus on developing neighborhood sustainability assessment (NSA) systems and, thereby, studying the prominent NSA tools. Alternatively, this study aims to uncover formative concepts shaping the assessment of sustainable neighborhoods based on a systematic review of the empirical work by researchers. The study included a Scopus database search for papers measuring neighborhood sustainability and a literature review of 64 journal articles published between 2019 and 2021. Our results suggest that criteria related to sustainable form and morphology are the most widely measured criteria in the reviewed papers, interconnected with multiple aspects of neighborhood sustainability. The paper contributes to expanding the existing knowledge on neighborhood sustainability evaluation, further adding to the literature on designing sustainable cities and communities and achieving Sustainable Development Goal 11.

Keywords: Environmental issues; Environmental policy; Research methodology social sciences; Urban planning.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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SLR methodology adopted in this study
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Frequency of the measured criteria in the two categories
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Overall frequency of the measured criteria
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Word frequency (Category 1)
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Word frequency query (Category 2)
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Factors contributing to a sustainable neighborhood
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Relationship between urban form and morphology and the sustainability criteria measured in the reviewed articles,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Relationship between urban form and morphology and other factors of a sustainable neighborhood
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