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An Image-Based Multi-Criteria Assessment
of Sustainable Redevelopment Plans
of a University Campus
Jo ˜ o Rom ˜ o, Peter Nijkamp, Eveline van Leeuwen, Karima Kourtit,
Takao Ozasa, and Maki Ikegami
Abstract
The concept of sustainability is increasingly applied in urban facilities planning,
including a University campus. A campus can essentially be seen as a living
laboratory for the development of ecologically-benign practices connected to the
social interactions of an academic environment. Sustainable (re)development of
a University campus calls for stakeholder-based assessment tools. The present
paper offers an operational framework for such an assessment, focused on the
possible transformations in the landscape of the Campus and the ecological,
social and functional processes of re-development. In this study, a Regime multi-
criteria evaluation method complemented with a strategic choice analysis
regarding the performance and sustainability of Hokkaido University campus
(Sapporo, Japan) is presented. This paper serves to trace whether and how the
goals and principles defined in the strategic Plans for the development of this
 
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