To achieve sustainability of urban environment, spatial planners of nowadays tend to put emphasis on environmental assessment on established development plan in institutional planning process. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the level of envi...
To achieve sustainability of urban environment, spatial planners of nowadays tend to put emphasis on environmental assessment on established development plan in institutional planning process. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the level of environmental friendliness of existing urban plans, drawing up the targets(as weak points) to make conventional planning system environmentally friendly, and to set indicators proper to 4-step urban plan hierarchy(Metropolitan Plan/Urban Comprehensive Plan/Urban Plan/District Plan) For this, interview and survey with experts were carried out. The results of this study are summarized as follows; First, this study, focused on 42 environmetal performance indicators, evaluated individual cases of 14 UCPs and 14 UPs within Kyonggi province. In aspect of the level of environmental friendliness, the analysis revealed that the evaluation score of UCPs is slightly higher than that of UPs whose level is in the state of the lowest rank. Second, the research set up 42, 40 and 20 indicators available to MP, UCP and UP respectively, reviewing the environmental performance and the prescription for environmental impact minimization in the process of urban plan issuing.