The Compact City: A Sustainable Urban Form?

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ISBN: 9780419213000 | 0419213007
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Copyright: 3/15/1996

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This book presents the latest thinking on the benefits and dangers of higher density urban living. It offers diverse opinions and research, from a wide range of disciplines, and gives an insight into both the theoretical debate and the practical challenges surrounding the compact city. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in sustainable urban development.

Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Compact Cities and Sustainability: an Introduction	p. 3
Compact City Theory	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Centrists, Decentrists and Compromisers: Views on the Future of Urban Form	p. 13
In Favour of the Compact City	p. 36
Density, Efficiency and Equality in Australian Cities	p. 45
The Compact City: a Successful, Desirable and Achievable Urban Form?	p. 53
How Compact is Sustainable-How Sustainable is Compact?	p. 66
The Search for a Sustainable Urban Form	p. 74
Achieving the Compact City Through Intensification: an Acceptable Option?	p. 83
Social and Economic Issues	p. 97
Introduction	p. 99
Running the Gauntlet: a Compact City Within a Doughnut of Decay	p. 101
Economic and Social Issues	p. 114
The Compact City and the Market: the Case of Residential Development	p. 122
The Compact City and the Quality of Life	p. 134
Not Compact Cities but Sustainable Regions	p. 143
Urban Consolidation and the Family	p. 155
Environment and Resources	p. 167
Introduction	p. 169
The Transport Dimension	p. 171
Travel Behaviour and Local Accessibility to Services and Facilities	p. 181
Sustainable Transport in a Compact City	p. 190
Environmental Stress and Urban Policy	p. 200
Measuring and Monitoring	p. 213
Introduction	p. 215
The Precautionary Principle and the Compact City	p. 217
The Compact City and Urban Sustainability: Conflicts and Complexities	p. 231
Environmental Capacity of a Historic City: the Chester Experience	p. 248
City Space and Pollution Dispersion: a Modelling and Monitoring Exercise	p. 259
Implementation	p. 273
Introduction	p. 275
Who Will Care for Compact Cities?	p. 277
Repairing Our Much Abused Cities: the Way to Sustainable Living	p. 289
Urban Footprints: Making Best Use of Urban Land and Resources-A Rural Perspective	p. 298
The Compact City and the Need to Travel: the Implementation of Uk Planning Policy Guidance	p. 302
Sustainability in Scottish Cities: Two Case Studies of Local Management	p. 318
A New Compact City Form: Concepts in Practice	p. 328
Conclusion	p. 339
A Question of Sustainable Urban Form: Conclusion	p. 341
Index	p. 346
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