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Manglani, P.; Pijawka, K. D. Measuring environmental impacts of sustainable neighborhood plans. In: CONFERENCE ON PASSIVE AND LOW ENERGY ARCHITECTURE, 20., 2003, Santiago do Chile. Anais... Santiago do Chile, 2003.
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Abstract

This paper examines measures that can be used to evaluate sustainability at the neighborhood planning level. The main aim of this study is to derive quantitative indicators that can be used to characterize a neighborhood plan on its level of sustainability including such measures as energy demand, protection of ecosystem integrity, water use, heat island effects, and other environmental parameters. The final measures based on a small set of scientifically valid and operational indicators were combined into a single index to compare two neighborhoods on the levels of sustainability that they had reached. These indicators of sustainability were developed through the scientific literature and applied to two conceptual neighborhood plans in the Phoenix, Arizona region. Both plans share the same 1,000 acres of undeveloped suburban desert land and topological features. The first plan is based on the superimposition of a conventionally designed neighborhood; the second is a plan based on sustainable neighborhood design principles that was a product of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-sponsored project on sustainability.
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