This is de Sustainable City Matrix (SCM) developed by the Institute of Smart Cities (ISC) of the Public University of Navarra (UPNA) during the EU funded STARDUST Project, looking for assessing European Cities’ plans and strategies to find their global sustainability label taking into account six different areas, in order to analyse the results and improve their policies on each, looking for more sustainable environments. Before starting to fill in the matrix, a general review of the 18 indicators should be taken, as well as an examination of the appendix describing the sub-sections related to those indicators. In this way, the user not only gets acquainted with the matrix but also can take notes about the information required by the tool, and that must be collected in advance. In opinion of the developers of the SCM, the more time- consuming activity for dealing with the matrix is collecting the data related to the indicators; fulfilling the matrix itself (having beforehand corresponding information) is similar to feeding a spreadsheet.
All the topics are questions, and the answers must be chosen from the dropdown below.
Some answers are referred to a specific number, or in an implementation range.
When some answer is in %, is understood that (i.e.) 10% to 20% is "from 10,01% until 20%", and 20%-
30% is "from 20,01% to 30%" and so on.
Other answers could be referred to the scale of the initiative implementation.
Metropolitan: The project or initiative management goes further the area of just one city, but a grouping
of municipalities forming a cluster of cities, with a management scheme that exceeds the municipal level
(a group of cities in association, a territorial commonwealth, or superior governmental bodies)
Municipal: is the ambit of an individual city with local management. The project or initiative is limited
exclusively to the area of a city.
District: The initiative embodies a borough Council with an independent Urban Planning Advisory
Committee and is not to be applied to the whole municipality area.
Neighbourhood: The project concerns local communities with no necessarily formal management, or to
small parts of the city.
Pilot project: is referred to small-scale demonstrators (in a street, in a park, in one or a small group of
buildings,…)
Non executed plan: is proposed strategy or a plan not carried out yet. The city has an initiative but is not
already executed not even in a demonstrator.
None: There is nothing even planned in that area or issue.