Évaluation des éco-quartiers : pour quelle intégration territoriale dans le contexte carioca ?

The diffusion of sustainable neighborhoods around the world is due to the increasing number of neighborhood sustainability assessment tools, which provide a technical response to a national and local political demand for sustainable development. These assessment tools, often standardized, are also likely to be exported internationally, regardless of the natural and cultural environment in which they are applied. In Brazil, several foreign assessment tools, such as the American LEED-ND, and the Brazilian AQUA B&L based on the French HQE-A tool, contribute to the evaluation and certification of eco-neighborhood projects, more specifically in Rio de Janeiro. Thus, the article questions the production of sustainable neighborhoods in the Carioca context, through the use of neighborhood sustainability assessment tools impacting a given territory. The study of a specific project, Ilha Pura, will highlight the discrepancies between the political demand, the technical response associated to the neighborhood sustainability assessment tools, whether they are imported or not, and the reality of the built project. The study reveals that, regardless of the composition of assessment tools responding to a given political demand, or the performance assessment achieved by the projects, assessment tools have in fact little influence on the actual performance of neighborhoods and on their integration to a specific territory.