This paper introduces a review on sustainability-related concepts at a neighbourhood scale. 3909 abstracts of papers on “neighbourhood sustainability” published between the late eighties and February 2020 were downloaded from Scopus in order to perform a text mining analysis. The concept of neighbourhood sustainability is studied and discussed at both geographical and temporal level, employing clustering methods. Marked differences in the elaboration of neighbourhood sustainability-related concepts can be tracked at spatial level and linked to the different socioeconomic, cultural and climatic conditions of the considered geographic areas. A significant temporal evolution of the concept can be also tracked with a focus on specific aspects of the sustainability concept in different periods of time. The analysis can help in defining more rigorous evaluation categories and criteria for neighbourhoods sustainability rating systems: new criteria should be included and an international homogenization is recommended in the definition of a common scheme of macro-categories, as well as local versions of the tools. Finally, the adoption of a dynamic approach, that doesn’t stop after the projects realization, is proposed for the evaluation of the sustainability at a neighbourhood scale.

本文在社区范围内介绍了与可持续发展相关的概念。为了进行文本挖掘分析，从Scopus下载了3909年80年代末至2020年2月之间发表的有关“社区可持续性”的论文摘要。使用聚类方法在地理和时间级别上研究和讨论邻里可持续性的概念。可以在空间水平上追踪与社区可持续性相关概念的设计上的明显差异，并将其与所考虑地理区域的不同社会经济，文化和气候条件相关联。还可以跟踪该概念的重大时间演变，重点是在不同时间段内可持续概念的特定方面。该分析可以帮助为社区可持续性评级系统定义更严格的评估类别和标准：应包括新的标准，并且在定义宏类别的通用方案以及工具的本地版本时，建议进行国际均质化。最后，提出了一种动态方法的采用，该方法在项目实现后不会停止，以评估社区规模的可持续性。