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Abstract
With increasing emphasis on sustainable infrastructure as a setting for sustainable development,
two broad types of questions arise: when is a particular infrastructure project sustainable and how
is its impact assessed? This paper presents a methodology, tested on two exurban town centers, for
assessing the impact of sustainable infrastructure, using various assessment indicators found in
existing literature and that fall within the triple bottom line approach (economic, environmental,
social). Findings suggest that the method does yield useful information for gauging the impacts of
sustainable infrastructure investment, and that the impacts are mostly consistent with the expected
and desired outcomes of denser exurban development, increasingly diverse land-use mix, and
compact circulation.