Among the three pillars of sustainability, social sustainability has received the least attention, especially among the studies addressing the sustainable housing development in Dubai’s urban neighborhoods. Unfortunately, these neighborhoods are not showing enough vibrancy of their public spaces and amenities which seemingly undermined their social sustainability. The lack of a comprehensive tool that can assess the interlinked indicators of social sustainability in urban neighborhoods has urged the research to propose an Integrated Measuring Tools Method (IMTM), that incorporates relevant computational simulation techniques alongside the appropriate conventional qualitative tools. The proposed IMTM was utilized in assessing the social sustainability indicators within the urban form of an existing neighborhood in Dubai. The assessment revealed that various urban form characteristics including; density, land-use, mobility options, mobility networks, streets layouts, and the built environment’s safety and aesthetic qualities, are the main factors undermining social sustainability in the studied locality. The results informed a set of suggested redevelopment strategies/guidelines for this neighborhood that takes into consideration the exiting constraints and opportunities. These included; increasing density by infill development, redefining land-use to achieve diversity in housing types and decentralized amenities, diversifying mobility options, improving the spatial integration of the mobility networks while restraining the private cars movement, improving accessibility, enriching urban landscape, and finally enhancing the quality of amenities and services. A social sustainability redevelopment scenario was suggested based on these strategies. When compared to the exiting neighborhood utilizing the IMTM, it proved significantly better attainment of social sustainability principles. So, it might be claimed that the proposed IMTM and its outcomes proved to be a valid basis for assessing, redeveloping and validating social sustainability of existing neighborhoods with similar typology in Dubai, and potentially in the region.

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评估城市形态对社会可持续性的影响：建议用于迪拜城市社区的“综合测量工具方法”

在可持续性的三大支柱中，社会可持续性受到的关注最少，尤其是在涉及迪拜城市社区可持续住房发展的研究中。不幸的是，这些社区的公共空间和便利设施没有表现出足够的活力，这似乎破坏了它们的社会可持续性。缺乏可以评估城市社区社会可持续性相互关联指标的综合工具，促使该研究提出一种综合测量工具方法 (IMTM)，该方法将相关的计算模拟技术与适当的常规定性工具结合起来。拟议的 IMTM 被用于评估迪拜现有社区城市形态内的社会可持续性指标。评估显示，各种城市形态特征包括：密度、土地利用、交通选择、交通网络、街道布局以及建筑环境的安全性和审美品质，是破坏研究地区社会可持续性的主要因素。结果为该社区提供了一套建议的重建策略/指南，其中考虑了现有的限制和机会。这些包括；通过填充开发增加密度，重新定义土地利用以实现住房类型的多样性和分散的便利设施，使出行选择多样化，在限制私家车出行的同时改善出行网络的空间整合，改善可达性，丰富城市景观，最终增强设施和服务的质量。基于这些策略提出了社会可持续性重建方案。与使用 IMTM 的现有社区相比，它被证明显着更好地实现了社会可持续性原则。因此，有人可能会声称，拟议的 IMTM 及其结果被证明是评估、重新开发和验证迪拜以及可能在该地区具有类似类型的现有社区的社会可持续性的有效基础。