Developing the Green Building Challenge (GBC) evaluation model: a multidimensional framework for the assessment of regional and urban regeneration interventions

The enhancement process of urban systems is currently developed by interventions with increasing complexity, as they should achieve the economical and social requirements of sustainability, beside the environmental ones. This is a central issue that is growing in importance also at the neighborhood level. Within the present sustainability assessment tools at neighborhood level, this paper suggests the Local Sustainability Index (Lo.S.I.) evaluation model in order to measure the efforts to achieve a satisfying degree of sustainability in regional and urban regeneration interventions, both enhancing/transferring new knowledge about the present condition and the possible development options of abandoned urban areas.