Urban sustainability assessment for Environmentally Sustainable Framework by Social practices and practice architectures

Despite the growing literature on sustainability assessment in the urban context, the resulting approaches and methods use several different theoretical frameworks and lack a unified perspective and operational practices. Countless tools and instruments have been created for specific purposes and relatively limited purposes. Strangely, these tools and instruments are unable to track and assess sustainability in vernacular forms and traditional built environments, even though environments such as these clearly have principles of sustainability in addition to aesthetic values and spatial attributes. This paper examines the theoretical background underlying current sustainability assessment methods in the urban context to identify their general limitations and specific application to indigenous and traditional built environments. Also, this paper discusses some cultural and spatial characteristics of the traditional form to identify its embedded sustainable strategies and functions. The paper concludes with a general conceptual framework for developing general principles of sustainability for traditional built forms in response to their natural and cultural contexts.This qualitative study of secondary schools in England included interviews with stakeholders and student focus groups in twelve schools in Greater London and the Thames Valley region (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxford shire), where ۱۴۲ people including teachers, students, parents, governors and school staff (leadership, facilities, finance) participated in the research. The literature review of the concepts of sustainability assessment in the urban context and the sustainable principles embedded in the native and traditional format is followed by the thematic analysis of its limitations, which is fed from a new framework based on principles to this conceptualization. A total of ۱۰ principles of sustainability have been proposed to evaluate sustainability in traditional built environments, taking into account the diversity of the site and the specific context of the site.