Evaluating Sustainable Development: in the Built Environment

A structure is required which aids definition, provides a common set of values, establishes measurement methods to define progress, and suggests a management system and decision protocol which enables practitioners to engage and use the resultant structures and information.

This book provides a suggested structure in which all aspects of sustainable development can be included together with a set of evaluation techniques which can be used within the structure to provide assistance to decision making.

Dr Patrizia Lombardi is Researcher at the Polytechnic of Turin where she teaches cost planning and evaluation of plans and projects on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She has been involved in a number of European and national projects on sustainable urban development, including the BEQUEST network, the INTELCITIES integrated project, the reorganisation of the central railway station ‘Porta Nuova’ area in Turin and the ‘social reporting’ of Trieste and Modena. She has co-organised a number of national and international conferences, is editor of a number of books on sustainability evaluation and is author of more than 50 papers in specialised textbooks and international scientific journals.