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As climate change and environmental destruction are becoming more serious globally, many countries have established and implemented green building certification systems to create an sustainable and environment-friendly urban space. There are LEED in the U.S., GBTool in Canada, BREEAM in the U.K., and CASBEE in Japan, and the Green Building Certification System has been established in Korea since 2000, which has been renamed as G-SEED(Green Standard for Energy and Environmental Design). Green building certification systems are concentrated on individual buildings for the most countries, and certification in urban design levels or similar actions are at just beginning stage globally. In this study, the certified cases by LEED-ND(Neighborhood Development), first introduced in 2009 in the US as a pilot program, are examined to find out green characteristics of different countries by comparing certified cases in China and US which were evaluated under the same certification criteria. The results showed both countries have similar trends for the most part, however there were some issues that was affected from social and cultural differences. The findings from the this study will contribute to identify global trends on sustainable strategies for urban design and neighborhood development projects.