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Author: Elizabeth Burton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1135816999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKprovides forum for progressing the urban debate demonstrates good design and practice through a variety of case studies offers cross-disciplinary view points
Author: Rod Burgess
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1135803897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of edited papers forms part of the Compact City Series, creating a companion volume to The Compact City (1996) and Achieving Sustainable Urban Form (2000) and extends the debate to developing countries. This book examines and evaluates the merits and defects of compact city approaches in the context of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Issues of theory, policy and practice relating to sustainability of urban form are examined by a wide range of international academics and practitioners.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on the City
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Bernard Dantzig
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780716707844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Zhongjie Lin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-27
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1351206818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies of compact cities have evolved along with the rising awareness of climate change and sustainable development. Relevant debates, however, reveal that the prevailing definitions and practices of compact cities are tied primarily to traditional Western urban forms. This book reinterprets "compact city", and develops a ground-breaking discourse of "Vertical Urbanism", a concept that has never been critically articulated. It emphasizes "Vertical Urbanism" as a dynamic design strategy instead of a static form, distinguishing it from the stereotyped concept of "vertical city" or "towers in the park" dominant in China and elsewhere, and suggests its adaptability to different geographic and cultural contexts. Using Chinese cities as laboratories of investigation, this book explores the design, ecological, and sociocultural dimensions of building compact cities, and addresses important global urban issues through localized design solutions, such as the relationship between density and vitality, the integration of horizontal and vertical dimensions of design, and the ecological and social adaptability of combinatory mega-forms. In addition, through discussions with scholars from the United States, China, and Japan, this book provides an insight into the theoretical debates surrounding "compact city" and "Vertical Urbanism" in the global context. Scholars and students in architecture and urban planning will be attracted by this book. Also, it will appeal to readers with an interest in urban development and Asian studies.
Author: Philipp Rode
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2018-01-26
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1788111362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGoverning Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriented urban development. Philipp Rode draws on empirical evidence from London and Berlin to examine how urban policymakers, professionals and stakeholders have worked across disciplinary silos, geographic scales and different time horizons since the early 1990s.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2012-05-14
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9264167862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report is thus intended as “food for thought” for national, sub-national and municipal governments as they seek to address their economic and environmental challenges through the development and implementation of spatial strategies in pursuit of Green Growth objectives.
Author: Gert de Roo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-24
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1351745875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2000. Encouraging, even requiring, higher density urban development is a major policy in the European Community and of Agenda 21, and a central principle of growth management programmes used by cities around the world. This work takes a critical look at a number of claims made by proponents of this initiative, seeking to answer whether indeed this strategy controls the spread of urban suburbs into open lands, is acceptable to residents, reduces trip lengths and encourages use of public transit, improves efficiency in providing urban infrastructure and services, and results in environmental improvements supporting higher quality of life in cities.
Author: Joo Hwa P. Bay
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1317190866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrowing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability explores and unravels the phenomena, links and benefits between density, compactness and the sustainability of cities. It looks at the socio-climatic implications of density and takes a more holistic approach to sustainable urbanism by understanding the correlations between the social, economic and environmental dimensions of the city, and the challenges and opportunities with density. The book presents contributions from internationally well-known scholars, thinkers and practitioners whose theoretical and practical works address city planning, urban and architectural design for density and sustainability at various levels, including challenges in building resilience against climate change and natural disasters, capacity and integration for growth and adaptability, ageing, community and security, vegetation, food production, compact resource systems and regeneration.
Author: Joan Busquets
Publisher: Actar D
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 484
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBarcelona is regarded as a prototype of a European Mediterranean city with a long urban tradition. It has undergone a specific process of historic formation: density and compactness of urban form, evolution by extension rather than by reform. A history of urban planning necessarily includes a summary of the territorial and urban experience, the physical dimensions of the city that condition its cultural and economic development. This book centers on the construction of Barcelona, taking as its basis the most important planning operations and city projects, and drawing from diverse sources and phases. The local scale of many of the projects contrasts with the cosmopolitan aspirations that have made these interventions so innovative; including major projects for special events, such as the 1888 (World Exhibition), 1929 (Electrical Industries Exhibition) and 1992 (Olympic Games). New prospects are emerging from the recent European institutional framework, particularly changes in the economic system to a post-industrial phase. The urban planning history of Barcelona shows how the city has overcome major contradictions.
