A Integrated Approach for Sustainability Assessment

Constructing and improving urban residential areas is an eternal critical subject in the process of the whole urban development which is connected with a series of challenges and problems. During the past decades, urban residential development has speed up extremely with massive population mobility in cities. The purpose of this study is to present an integrated approach for sustainability assessment of urban residential development, considering sustainability indicators, housing equilibrium and building visualization. The main contribution of this study is the GISSD application, by integrating Geographical Information System (GIS), System Dynamics (SD) and 3D visualization, which is designed for sustainability assessment of urban residential development, linking residential housing prediction and sustainability indicators in four main sectors: housing, society, economics and environment.