The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision support mechanisms developed for users of the system to guide them in selecting the appropriate assessment methods for a variety of evaluations. This book provides case studies drawn from locations across Europe, and also provides best practice examples demonstrating those protocols that planners, property developers and design and construction professionals have followed, and how they have selected the assessment methods they need to best evaluate the sustainability of cities, districts, neighbourhoods and buildings.

1. Introduction Part 1: The Toolkit 2. The Toolkit for Assessment Part 2: Assessment 3. Scenario Analysis in Spatial Impact Assessment 4. Multi-Criteria Evaluation and Planning Support: Choosing Among Alternative Scenarios 5. Mixed and Compact Land Use Assessments 6. SMARTNET: A System for Multi-Criteria Appraisal of Road Transport Networks 7. The NAR Model of Land Use and Buildings 8. The Building Passport Assessment 9. The European HQE²R Sustainable Neighbourhood Assessment 10. The REGEN Assessment of the Porta Nuova District's Central Railway Station 11. Assessment Methods Underlying the Planning and Development of Modena City's CSR Part 3: Evaluating the Sustainability of Urban Development 12. The Search for Sustainable Communities: Ecological Integrity, Equity and the Question of Participation 13. Governing the Sustainable of Urban Development 14. Conclusions