This handbook aims to provide a professional audience with advice on how to integrate assessment into the process of sustainable urban regeneration. The materials, including many practical examples, cover all stages of the regeneration process (from diagnosis towards implementation and monitoring) demonstrates where careful, rational consideration can assist stakeholders to identify the most appropriate option for their community.

The need to integrate assessment into sustainable urban regeneration is particularly pressing because of the legal, financial and accountability standards regulating the implementation of large-scale regeneration programmes.

Handbook 4 addresses the following frequently asked questions:

• What is assessment in sustainable urban regeneration?
• Why is it important to integrate assessment into the regeneration process?
• How can assessment activities be integrated into the regeneration process?

Annex I of the Handbook explains the foundation of the LUDA Regeneration Process methodology. Annex II presents the categorisation of the methods and techniques aiding decision-making in the sustainable urban regeneration.

Handbook 4 is supported by Handbook 5, which addresses the LUDA assessment decision support system; a database of methods and techniques recommended for use throughout the regeneration process. This document allows you to select the methods most appropriate to your case

Handbooks 4 and 5 are targeted towards a professional audience and are likely to be of most interest to urban practitioners, planners, property developers, city authorities and representatives of government bodies with an interest in the regeneration of LUDAs