ABSTRACT
Rethinking the city and its entities in such a way as to place them in a purely ecological framework raises major concerns that seem urgent today in the face of a heightened environmental decline within cities. The district is a relevant base to mitigate this decline through urban morphology, which appears to be a major criterion for the environmental optimization of neighbourhoods through their configuration and organization. The present work aims to address the sustainability of a retirement district in France by seeking the most optimal morphology for environmental preservation through the influence of three criteria, namely, shape, compactness and density, on the generation of environmental impacts and then identify the contribution of the different sources of impacts to the overall assessment through a series of simulations based on the very rigorous Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach.
