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Pentagram Sustainability Model: Framing of a holistic sustainability dimension model for assessment of Neighbourhood level Urban Communities (NLUCs) using a semi-automated systematic literature review

Sustainability assessment,neighbourhood level urban communities,systematic literature review,dimensions of sustainability

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This paper systematically reviews the current approaches of assessing sustainability at NLUC to identify existing dimensions of sustainability including missing and neglected ones. The authors have adopted the SLR approach (Tranfield et al., 2003)(Silva et al., 2017) to provide an overview of state of the art literature in urban sustainability assessment and measurement. The novelty of the content analysis is that it has been accomplished using an automated process of keyword extraction from the systematically selected literature using a Python-implementation of the popular RAKE algorithm. Finally, the paper proposes a pentagram which successfully incorporates five dimensions of sustainability: environment, economic, social, institutional and cultural with an overarching component of innovation likely to have an impact on each due to technological advancements and future trends. The outcome of this model will be a basic framework within which indicators can be assigned for assessing the sustainability of the NLUCs.