Journal of Urban Studies on Space and Place

Reviewing the Graphic Sustainability Assessment Tool in Measuring the Sustainability of the University Campus with the aim of Promoting its Role as a Public Urban Space

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Mozhdeh Jamshidi

Assistant Professor, Department of Urbanism,Tourism- Architecture and Urban Planing Research Center, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch, Isfahan, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22034/jspr.2024.2036121.1070
Abstract
The realization of a sustainable university as an institution that prioritizes environmental, social, economic, and cultural sustainability in its strategies, policies, and practices; As a strategic center, it plays a central role in urban environments, and in the last few decades, it has been the focus of urban planning and designer researchers. A university, as a higher education institution that provides three areas of educational performance: educational space, educational experience in context, and natural environment, plays an important role in the balance and interaction of social activity, built-physical environment, and natural environment. They play Providing a method and a tool to evaluate the level of stability of the educational space as a physical-spatial space is the subject that is addressed in this research. For this purpose, various types of assessment tools are introduced, and then the graphic assessment tool of sustainability in the university (GASU) is examined as one of the analytical tools. This research is based on its interpretative approach, following the introduction and application of an evaluation method to measure the sustainability of university campuses as a special type of urban public space. Based on this, this research has used the strategy of reviewing the research literature using library resources (a heuristic approach). The results are presented in two parts: the framework of GASU indicators and the rereading of this method for its application in the university with the aim of turning it into a public space in the city. The results indicate that the general indicators are centered on the institutional core of the university campus in order to create a vision for information and public participation; economic indicators are another part of the institutional core, seeking to draw the conditions of competition, benefit, and public participation in the economic field; And finally, the environmental index to describe a nature-friendly environment is based on local values and technology-based energy efficiency.
 

Keywords

Urban space
University Campus
Sustainability Assessment
Graphical Assessment Tool for Sustainability in University (GASU)

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