Attributes of Urban form Fostering Sustainability
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Supervisor: Dr. U.G.D. Weerasinghe Department: Architecture Faculty: Architecture A neighbourhood is a built entity that lays the experiences of daily lives of a group of inhabitants in an identifiable geographical space. Neighbourhood sustainability is the process of nurturing its environment to support and meet both the economic and social needs of its inhabitants |
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A sustainable neighbourhood should ensure the desired quality of life and satisfaction of the inhabitants by intertwining the local; social, cultural, environmental, and economic facets enabling its sustenance as an appealing place to live. ‘Urban Form’ of such neighbourhoods is the physical manifestation, expressing the respective sustainability appeal sensed by the inhabitants. This is the intangible, significant finding, demonstrated in the physical design. Physical and non-physical attributes of the neighbourhood form, such as density, layout, land use, connectivity, transport infrastructure, building typology and architectural character, are the deterministic attributes of urban form fostering the sustainability of a neighbourhood to create an appealing environment for its inhabitants. 
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