Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability

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Growing 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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction 1 Compact urban form, density and sustainability: correlations and holistic approaches Part I Framing the question: unravelling the link between density, sustainability and compact cities 2 Urban lifelines to achieve climate resiliency 3 Planning ethics and urban density: overcoming fear in Anglo-Saxon cities 4 Density, sprawl and sustainable urban development: perspectives from the Asian and Pacific region 5 The challenge of transforming a low-density city into a compact city: the case of the City of Perth, Australia 6 Compact city and sustainable high-density living: social-environmental holistic approach Part II Quality of living and social dimensions relating to environmental sustainability 7 The sustainable city: a good and secure quality of life? 8 Density, compact urban form and sustainability in the Netherlands 9 Security and density: hyper-surveillance, public safety and social sustainability 10 Dense and ageing: social sustainability of public places amidst high-density development 11 Creating green space in the compact city: a Swedish perspective on a global issue Part III Compact resource management, greening and integration with urban form 12 Green Plot Ratio and MUtopia: the integration of green infrastructure into an ecological model for cities 13 Decentralized water and energy infrastructure: integration into compact urban form 14 The shape of resilience: a framework for integrating regenerative production of localised food and energy within an urban community 15 Food production and density: the design of a high-rise housing development in Singapore Part IV Design systems and structural approaches impacting density and sustainability 16 Hong Kong: appearing dense, yet growing smarter 17 Relationship between density, urban form and environmental performance 18 Housing innovation for compact, resilient cities 19 To follow the Australian dream or to embrace urban densification: a prolonged debate? Part V Policies, guidelines, methods and decision making relating to development for density and sustainability 20 Imagining optimum, not hyper, density: lessons learnt from high-density cases and a proposed framework for optimal-quality density 21 Growing Sydney: advocacy for urban density 22 Re-introducing density in shrinking cities: lessons from Japanese cities 23 Density and sustainability: strange bedfellows? Index