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Sustainability 2010, 2, 2950-2964; doi:10.3390/su2092950 OPEN ACCESS sustainability ISSN 2071-1050 /journal/sustainability Review Sustainability of Urban Infrastructures Marjana Sijanec Zavrl 1,* and Mine Tanac Zeren 2 1 Building and Civil Engineering Institute ZRMK, Dimiceva 12, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia 2 Faculty of Architecture, Dokuz Eylul University, Tınaztepe Campus Kurucesme, Buca, 35210 Alsancak, Izmir, Turkey; E-Mail: mine.tanac@.tr * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: marjana.sijanec@gi-zrmk.si; Tel.: +386-1-2808-342; Fax: +386-1-2808-451. Received: 27 July 2010; in revised form: 2 September 2010 / Accepted: 8 September 2010 / Published: 14 September 2010 Abstract: The scope of the paper is to overview the different approaches for evaluation of urban infrastructure sustainability. In this context, urban infrastructure covers transportation, energy, water, sewage and information networks as well as waste management and blue-green infrastructure, in terms of both the supply and demand side. A common effort of partners in the European project ―C8—Best Practice in Sustainable Urban Infrastructure‖, developed under the Cooperation in Science and Technology program (COST), in brief COST C8, was focused on defining the methods, indicators and criteria for evaluation of sustainability, and resulted in a guidebook for decision-makers in local authorities. Here, the COST C8 matrix for simple sustainability assessment of urb