As there is an increasing need for tools, that evaluate the sustainability attainment in the land-use structure of neighborhoods in the field of the usage of the geographic information systems for the land use planning process support. The developed toolbox aims assessing the sustainability attainment in the land use structure of an urban neighborhood, through performing three main tasks, the services accessibility task for evaluating the residential parcels accessibility to the essential services within a neighborhood, based on the walking distance for the recreational, elementary schools, nurseries, and the commercial service for daily-needed products. As well as the time for the transfer to the residential parcels by vehicles, from the emergency services locations, represented in the fire and medical services.;The Land-uses sufficiency task for evaluating the sufficiency of the area of each land use type, for the needs of the study area's residents, as well as the identification of the areas required for the fulfillment of the residents' needs from the land-uses types, that have shortage. The Land—uses compatibility task for identifying the degree of compatibility between the neighboring land use types within the land use structure for a neighborhood, based on degree of the importance of locating each land use type near or away from other types.;The toolbox has been modeled within ArcGIS™ 10.3, using Python language, and adjusted according to the German standards, as default values, but in the same time, it can be easily readjusted by the users to any country standards.
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