3.1 NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS: FROM PLANNING THEORIES
Howard’s idea to divide the “Garden city” into wards is considered to be one of the earliest notions of neighborhood in city planning. He visualized self-sustainable, compact neighborhoods with easy access to jobs, parks and shops for daily necessities. Howard clearly emphasized on efficient transportation network, combination of various social groups and integration of human and nature. Inspired by the “garden city”, Perry’s neighborhood units offer a more comprehensive image of mixed-use, walkable communities. Road networks were designed to segregate vehicular traffic from pedestrian network. While garden city and neighborhood units were focused more on human scale and limiting …show more content…
It evaluates the environmental performances of a district or precinct, comprising of various types of infrastructures, buildings and public amenities. Today, Green Mark certifications have gained much recognition and many developers from home and abroad are trying to get their projects accredited. According to BCA, the fact that Green Mark schemes were specially developed for tropical climate has made this scheme popular in the region. Straight Time published that the United Nations is also impressed with Singapore’s BCA Green Mark Scheme and they are interested for a tie up between the two, for better research and training on sustainable buildings and districts. Green Mark District has six categories, divided into two broad zones. Each category has its own set of indicators. This scheme doesn’t have any pre requisites, but there are minimum required points for each broad zone. The Green Mark District rating system can be applied to residential, Industrial/Business Parks and Commercial districts. The total possible score under all six criteria is …show more content…
The reason as mentioned in the manual- “Walking has cross-cutting benefits for public health, environmental sustainability and neighborhood vitality and further unlocks the advantages of neighborhoods with smart locations, a mix of uses and compact development” All the other four tools also have included some criterions for pedestrian friendly neighborhoods development.
7. Preservation and Improvement of Environmental Capitals
All the NSA tools have put a lot of emphasis on proper environmental management plans for Preservation and improvement of nature capitals like water bodies, marsh lands, Heritage trees, Large Non-invasive trees, Bio diversity habitats etc. Indicators have also been mentioned for Site selection, Outdoor thermal Environment, Micro climate optimization, Heat Island effect mitigation etc.
8. Social
Howard’s idea to divide the “Garden city” into wards is considered to be one of the earliest notions of neighborhood in city planning. He visualized self-sustainable, compact neighborhoods with easy access to jobs, parks and shops for daily necessities. Howard clearly emphasized on efficient transportation network, combination of various social groups and integration of human and nature. Inspired by the “garden city”, Perry’s neighborhood units offer a more comprehensive image of mixed-use, walkable communities. Road networks were designed to segregate vehicular traffic from pedestrian network. While garden city and neighborhood units were focused more on human scale and limiting …show more content…
It evaluates the environmental performances of a district or precinct, comprising of various types of infrastructures, buildings and public amenities. Today, Green Mark certifications have gained much recognition and many developers from home and abroad are trying to get their projects accredited. According to BCA, the fact that Green Mark schemes were specially developed for tropical climate has made this scheme popular in the region. Straight Time published that the United Nations is also impressed with Singapore’s BCA Green Mark Scheme and they are interested for a tie up between the two, for better research and training on sustainable buildings and districts. Green Mark District has six categories, divided into two broad zones. Each category has its own set of indicators. This scheme doesn’t have any pre requisites, but there are minimum required points for each broad zone. The Green Mark District rating system can be applied to residential, Industrial/Business Parks and Commercial districts. The total possible score under all six criteria is …show more content…
The reason as mentioned in the manual- “Walking has cross-cutting benefits for public health, environmental sustainability and neighborhood vitality and further unlocks the advantages of neighborhoods with smart locations, a mix of uses and compact development” All the other four tools also have included some criterions for pedestrian friendly neighborhoods development.
7. Preservation and Improvement of Environmental Capitals
All the NSA tools have put a lot of emphasis on proper environmental management plans for Preservation and improvement of nature capitals like water bodies, marsh lands, Heritage trees, Large Non-invasive trees, Bio diversity habitats etc. Indicators have also been mentioned for Site selection, Outdoor thermal Environment, Micro climate optimization, Heat Island effect mitigation etc.
8. Social