Sustainability Assessment of Housing Developments: A New Methodology

In order to combat the rapid degradation of the world’s ecosystems and depletion of natural resources, governments and planning authorities are searching for more sustainable forms of development. The need to assess the sustainability of development proposals is of great importance to policy and decision makers. However, effective methods of assessing the overall sustainability of housing developments (proposed or existing) have yet to be established. This research aims to address this problem by presenting a new methodology to assess the sustainability of housing development systems. The methodology uses a Sustainability Scale for indicators that are derived from percentiles of a