SIMURG: Performance-based Model for the Assessment of Sustainability: Synthesis of the Paradigmatic and Frame Models

Abstract

Today decision-making processes of public authorities for developing sustainable policies, do not support transparency, accountability, and consistency of their decisions. What societies require is a human-centric vision that supports this vision, and the tools that increase the legitimacy of the whole decision-making process. The problem is the lack of these visions and tools that allow the citizens to meet their priorities in their lives with the identities of built environment entities and public authorities to accept/propose suitable projects by using “layers” such as historical/smart/ green/slow/safe, etc. Most of the studies in the literature deal with the sustainability assessment problem at only one environmental dimension of sustainability without considering interactions among the dimensions of 3D Cartesian system and their levels. A paradigmatic model and frame model, which will be used as a guide for developing further conceptual and practical models must be developed from scratch. The conceptual and practical models can only be developed in an iterative process by considering the interactions among these components. In this study, a bottom-up approach in an iterative process was adopted and practiced in the development process of the relationships among the components to propose the above-stated parts of the model of the research.