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Measuring and comparing sustainable development levels of cities, regions, and projects is an essential procedure in creating and maintaining sustainable urban futures.Introducing a new urban sustainable development assessment model: The Live and Work (LaW) City Model, as an indicator-based sustainable development indexing model, it aims to assist planners and policy makers in their decision-making procedures and development of cities by providing an integrated assessment framework. Several efforts were done to develop composite indicators, but it was concluded that most of them focused on environmental dimensions and neglected the overlapping of the other influential ones.The paper gives an overview of the nature and importance of composite indicators and how it can be structured and implemented precisely; overcoming its drawbacks, to gauge and rank the performance of cities across the demands of people, planet, and profit, as a way of achieving the live and work balance criteria.The methodology of the model is developed by following a set of logical steps such as; weighing, normalization, and aggregation of individual indicators. From here, a functional form for aggregation was derived to compute the index. Also, the structure of the model was illustrated in the form of a Pie/Radar chart.The visualized LaW City Index has the communicative advantage of being easy to convey comparative levels of different values. The total values computed could be used to rank cities in a tabular format and gauge their comparable sustainable development performance accordingly.The model can also estimate the sustainable development outcomes of alternative development scenarios during different year’s intervals. This can be achieved by stacking up different model scenarios; making it a relatively simple exercise for both the general public and decision-makers to comprehend

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Villages located today in the peri-urban area, are in continuous agglomeration. The lack of proper guidelines and monitoring systems to define, promote, regulate and manage the pattern of development in these areas, causes massive deteriorations to the environment and quality of life. In Egypt, very few states have a dedicated legal framework that addresses the need for planned development in the peri-urban areas. A Spatio-temporal model framework consisting of a set of geospatial indicators is required to regulate and direct the growth and development of these areas and prevent further spill across administrative boundaries. This article responds to the lack of a geo-spatial quantifiable criterion as a key to detect, analyze, and better govern spatial and temporal patterns of urban growth in peri-urban areas, where the results are to be represented dynamically in forms of spatial patterns evolving in time. The research aims to develop a process-wise, contextual mapping of peri-urban dynamics using GIS to detect and analyze spatial and temporal patterns of urban growth. It has been applied to one of the peri-urban areas in Egypt, in Meet Assas Village, chosen as a case study. Miscellaneous primary and secondary data sources together with the methods used for monitoring: UN Criteria (Goal 11) targets, thematic headlines, village’s problems and geo-spatial indicators were the main constitutions of the model frame work. The results show that the village is characterized by a dispersed pattern of development with the absence of basic infrastructure and services. Besides that, the study reveals, through temporal patterns, that the future and unplanned growth will continue to intensify; posing numerous threats on the environment and the quality of life. A harmonized standardized measurement framework for planning, development, and management is crucial rather than demolishing these areas.