The sustainable environmental neighborhoods is sustainable development of neighborhoods that include considerations related to transport, density, urban forms, and environmental buildings and especially those related to social and functional integration, and civil society participation, This standard, which did not attract the attention of specialists in the 1990s, has today become a center of attention for all those interested in urbanism and sustainability. The problem of the research is the existence of urban problems in residential neighborhoods that lead to lack of sustainability in the city, and the research aims to explain the role and importance of environmental sustainability of residential neighborhoods in achieving city sustainability assuming that environmental sustainability of residential neighborhoods leads to the sustainability of the city, and as a general methodology for the research, the descriptive analytical method was adopted. The research included sustainable environmental neighborhoods, neighborhood definition, and definition of sustainable neighborhoods, characteristics of sustainable neighborhoods, types of sustainable neighborhoods, goals and standards for sustainable neighborhoods, Sweden’s experience, and the research reached the following main conclusions:
1 - Sustainable environmental neighborhoods are modern neighborhoods that appeared most often in industrial sites that suffer from pollution to give a positive image of these sites to be new neighborhoods that enjoy social, participatory, economic and environmental quality and they are urban poles characterized by density and interconnection and respond to the principle of sustainability in terms of general quality.
2 - The achievement of sustainable neighborhoods is one of the stages towards achieving sustainable cities because it is a test of the principles and directions before achieving the sustainable city.
3 - There are common characteristics of sustainable neighborhoods, including density, functional integration, sustainable transportation, the high quality of the perimeter, intergenerational and social inclusion, prosperity, ease of communication, and control of values and community participation.