Abstract
Nowadays the majority of urban studies is focusing on city-level or micro-scale analysis regarding sustainability. However, district-focused evaluations are almost entirely missing. Besides, cities from both the most rapidly developing countries and the most-developed regions are overwhelmingly studied, while Central European cities are underrepresented in the current literature. Based on the previously mentioned frames, this study aims to fill the scientific gap by assessing the urban sustainability of Budapest, Hungary, on district level by using indicator method. Selected and partly constructed variables reflect the significant features of Budapest regarding environmental, social, and economic sustainability issues, thus altogether 30 indicators contributed to revealing major differences between districts in terms of their relative sustainability performance. The indicators were weighed by applying Guilford's weighting methodology; thus, dimension-level weights were not applied in order to understand better the hidden cause-effects between dimensions and overall sustainability performances. After the evaluation of the results the followings can be stated: firstly, a relevant geographical slope can be drawn regarding the overall sustainability of the districts grouped into Buda- and Pest-side units; secondly, social and economic dimensions determine the overall sustainability score in a more robust way compared to the relative role of environmental sustainability issues.
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