Developing a Framework for Assessing City Sustainability (Case Study: Bandar Lampung and Metro City, Lampung Province, Indonesia)

Abstract

Sustainable city development is influenced by the availability of sustainable infrastructure. High population growth in urban areas requires improvements in many aspects, especially infrastructure. However, the need for improvements is often not fulfilled. As a result, various problems that would ultimately affect the city sustainability emerge. To overcome the problems, it is important to develop comprehensive and integrated policies and strategies framework that enables a city to meet the demand for improvement and sustainability. The very first stage of developing a city development framework is to understand the current condition of city performance and sustainability. The main objective of this paper is to develop an indicator framework of a sustainable city. The stages of developing the framework consist (1) defining the criteria and indicators of sustainable city; (2) measuring performance and sustainability level of a city and (3) identifying the influential indicators that increase the city sustainability status. The criteria of sustainability framework were developed based on the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Sustainability of people, planet, and profit. Subsequently, the level of sustainability is measured by using a weighted-score method. This paper presented the results of the performance and sustainability assessment of two cities in the Lampung Province (Bandar Lampung and Metro City) based on the performance and sustainability framework developed in this study. It can be concluded that Bandar Lampung City is less sustainable than Metro.