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Introduction
The lack of integration between the natural and engineered systems is perceived as an environmental setback, highlighting misplaced priorities that address current environmental neglect in
followed regulations and relevant legislations on the main governmental authorities that play
the prime role in city and urban planning terms. This misplacement is unfortunately self-claimed
as a common feature in the current cities development and growth progress. Sustainable regeneration can be considered as a derivative of the wider area of sustainable development. This is
because sustainable development as an emerging concern in the 90s began to gain recognition in government policy and consequently permeated into regeneration thinking and policy
(Couch et al. 2011). Sustainable regeneration can therefore be considered as a path towards which
sustainable development may be achieved. In essence, sustainable regeneration contributes to
sustainable development.
In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a sustainable implementation initiative has come to life, known
as Estidama; a green rating system, that has been applied by the construction industry to mostly
buildings and some communities. The environmental conductance of applying the many methods that Estidama draws within buildings will be attempted to be measured in this study and presented as tangible outcomes that tackle the range of successful green methods implementations
in current communities.

Approach and Methodology
The purpose of the research is to make an overall assessment, a direct adaptation as well as delivery of a sustainable package that is designed to enhance the sustainable behaviors of modular
neighborhoods through evaluation of the current regulation and strategies of the communities
that are in the UAE. In this research, both approaches of qualitative as well as quantitative methods had been applied in the study. This study will adopt numerical values directed strategies,
addressed within the green rating systems adopted in Abu Dhabi, to form a sustainable bundle to
upcoming community projects based on repetitive neighborhood forms. The research will comprise technical, environmental assessment components and attempt to document its potential in
hot climate through investigation and analysis. Moreover, the following are the objectives of the
study:
• Find results to the process of changing the environmental measures to basic neighborhood
parameters relative to the well-being of a community.
• Highlight the recent researchers’ efforts in tackling the specific issue developing and evaluating sustainable communities through an intensive literature review, reflected within an upcoming section.
• Conduct an analysis of a current neighborhood, within the emirate of Abu Dhabi, as to serve as
a case study model to evaluate occurring trends and strategies adopted in local communities.
• Demonstrate the neighborhood’s simulation model using CityCad to assess and capture the
effect of applying sustainably environmental strategies through software controlled parameters.
This aspect thrives to form a sustainable modular package that can be adopted in different community developments as a basis model as a concluding extensive statement.

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