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The growing cities of the developing country are characterized by rapid growth and poor infrastructure management inviting and accelerating relative environmental problems. Even though the movements of the sustainability had already been developed around the world, it is still increasing in the developing countries to plant sustainable practices. Aligned with the sustainable development actions, many sustainable assessment tools are also developed to rate and evaluate the sustainability performances through the building to community level. Among them, CASBEE is developed by Japanese organizations and is recognized as one of the international well-known assessment tools. The main purpose of the study is to find out the potential of CASBEE tool reflecting sustainability city level performances in developing countries. The research framework was designed with three major phases: Quantitative Approach, Qualitative Approach and Evaluation Reflection. The first two approaches were based on the investigation of tool’s contents and indicators by means of three sustainable dimensions and sustainability categories. To know the reality and reflection on developing country, Pathein City from Myanmar was selected and evaluated by 2012 version of CASBEE for Cities. The evaluation practices went through assigned indicators and the evaluation outcome presents the performances of Pathein city’s environmental efficiency as a very good in current conditions. The results of this study indicate that the indicators of this tool have balance coverage among three dimensions of sustainability but it has not yet counted enough for some indicators like location, infrastructure and institution which are relative to society dimension. In the developing countries’ cities, the most critical issues on development such as affordable housing and heritage preservation which are already planted in Pathein City but the tool does not account for those issues. Moreover, in some of the indicators, the benchmark and the weighting coefficient are strongly linked to the system birth region. By means of this study, it can be stated that CASBEE for Cities would be potential for delivering sustainable city level development in developing country especially in Myanmar along with further inclusion of the indicators., {"references":["Shuzo Murakami, Kazuo Iwamura, Raymond J. Cole. Edited by Japan sustainable Building Consortium (JSBC). \"CASBEE: A Decade of Development and Application of an Environmental Assessment System for the Built Environment\". Institute for Building Environment and Energy Conservation (IBEC), Tokyo, Japan, 2007.","Sharifi A, Murayama A. \"A critical review of seven selected neighborhood sustainability assessment tools\". 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Unlike other metro cities of India, Bhubaneswar–the capital city of Odisha, is expected to reach 1-million-mark population by now. The demands of dwelling unit requirement mostly among urban poor belonging to Economically Weaker section (EWS) and Low Income groups (LIG) is becoming a challenge due to high housing cost and rents. As a matter of fact, it's also noted that, with increase in population, the solid waste generation also increases subsequently affecting the environment due to inefficiency in collection of waste by local government bodies. Methods of utilizing Solid Waste - especially in form of Plastic bottles, Glass bottles and Metal cans (PGM) are now widely used as an alternative material for construction of low-cost building by Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in developing countries like India to help the urban poor afford a shelter. The application of disposed plastic bottle used in construction of single dwelling significantly reduces the overall cost of construction to as much as 14% compared to traditional construction material. Therefore, considering its cost-benefit result, it's possible to provide housing to EWS and LIGs at an affordable price. In this paper, we estimated the quantity of plastic bottles generated in Bhubaneswar which further helped to estimate the possible number of single dwelling unit that can be constructed on yearly basis so as to refrain from further housing shortage. The estimation results will be practically used for planning and managing low-cost housing business by local government and NGOs., {"references":["Government of India, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MHUPA), \"Preamble - National Urban Housing and Habitat Policy\", New Delhi, 2007, pp-1.","Government of India, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MHUPA), \"Affordable housing in Partnership-Scheme guidelines\", New Delhi, September 2013, pp. 2-3.","D. J. Pati, K. Iki, and R. Homma, \"Solid Waste As A Potential Construction Material for Cost-Efficient Housing in India\", in Proc. 3rd World Conference on Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, 27-29 September 2014, Kathmandu, Nepal, ISBN 13: 978-81-930222-0-7, pp 240-245.","Retrieved, http://www.eco-tecnologia.com/projects, on October, 2014.","D. R. Valencia, C. L. Perez, E. Cortes and A. Froese, \"New alternatives in construction: earth filled pet bottles\", APUNTES, vol.25 num.2, Colombia, 2012, ISSN 1657-9763, pp-292-303.","D. J. Pati, K. Iki and R. Homma, \"Costing and Quantum Analysis on Utilization of Re-Usable Solid Waste as Construction Material in India\", yet to be published in Proc. Global Academic Network, Hong Kong Conf., 29-31 January 2015.","Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, \"Perspective Plan Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Urban Complex, vision-2030, Status Report\", Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, November 2006, pp 1-7","Census of India, 2011.","Ministry of Finance, \"Office Memorandum\", Department of Expenditure, Government of India, New Delhi, 29 August, 2008\n[10]\tDepartment of Architecture and Regional Planning, \"Perspective Plan Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Urban Complex, vision-2030\", Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, September 2007, Vol-2.\n[11]\tValmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY), \"Ministry of Urban Development Govt. of India Guidelines\", New Delhi.\n[12]\tDepartment of Architecture and Regional Planning, \"Perspective Plan Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Urban Complex, vision-2030\", Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, November 2006, Vol-1, pp 71-80.\n[13]\tGovernment of India, Ministry of Rural Development, \"Indira Awas Yojna (IAY)-Guidelines\", New Delhi, June 2013.\n[14]\tGovernment of India, Ministry of Rural Development, \"Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY)-Guidelines\", New Delhi\n[15]\tRetrieved, https://samarpanfoundation.org/projects/48/affordable-construction, on May 2015.\n[16]\tRetrieved, https://samarpanfoundation.org/projects/83/rebuild-nepal-eco-construction-programme, May 2015.\n[17]\tC. R. Mohanty, U. Mishra & P. R. Beuria, \"Municipal Solid Waste Management in Bhubaneswar, India –A Review\", International Journal of Latest Trends in Engineering and Technology, Vol. 3 Issue 3 January 2014, ISSN: 2278-621X (online version).\n[18]\tDepartment of Architecture and Regional Planning, \"Perspective Plan Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Urban Complex, vision-2030, Status Report\", Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, November 2006, pp 100-102."]}