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Sustainable development tries to provide suitable physical and economical base to human environment with minimal adverse effect on environment. In an urban context measuring sustainability becomes crucial due to its varying and vast dimensions. This study tries to develop a framework to measure sustainability at the neighbourhood level in an urban context Nagpur, India. The framework is developed based on composite indicators. Twenty sub-indicators are selected under different domains as demography, environmental and transport (accessibility, infrastructure, speed and safety).

The theoretical base is studied and experimented for twelve neighbourhoods with varying commercial and residential land-use mix. The indicators' values are computed. A performance benchmarking is determined through literature study. Weights are assigned through expert opinion survey. Linear aggregation facilitated …