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neighbourhood composition, construction material and building 
location. 
Efficiency, transferability and repetition rate are important 
points that need to be considered, i.e. methods are needed that 
allow the assessment of SV in a sufficiently comprehensive way 
and that can be broadly applied in a sustainable fashion. A 
solution could be the combination of different traditional 
approaches with new methods, such as the analysis of remote 
sensing data. 
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