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Modern cities require urban compact development to be sustainable. The evaluation of urban compact development may help create more accurate and realistic policies.
Wenqin Ren +3 more
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Theoretical Explanation of Polycentric Compact City Structure to Create a Sustainable Urban form [PDF]
The spatial structure of cities has changed a lot after technological changes and population growth and they have shifted from a monocentric compact city structure to an extended and scattered structure that poses many challenges and they have made human
Mahmood Arvin, Ahmad Poor Ahmad
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This paper examines the plans of the major Russian cities with a population over one million and their evolution over time. Special emphasis is placed on the Soviet period of urbanization, which had a significant impact on the direction of their ...
Savelyeva Ekaterina O.
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Compacting the city centre: densification in two Newcastles
The compact city and the associated process of densification have attained almost hegemonic status as a sustainable urban form. Seeking to counteract the negative impacts of sprawl, urban densification has usually focused on areas beyond the city centre.
Bob Giddings, Robert Rogerson
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Densification through infill developments is a common planning strategy where both advantages and problems have been brought forward. However, the knowledge on how such developments affect residents and their relations to local outdoor environments is ...
Märit Jansson, Julia Schneider
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Sustainable cities are currently undergoing unprecedented transformative changes in light of the recent paradigm shift in science and technology brought on by big data science and analytics.
Simon Elias Bibri
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In recent years, it has become increasingly feasible to achieve important improvements of sustainability by integrating sustainable urbanism with smart urbanism thanks to the proven role and synergic potential of data-driven technologies.
Simon Elias Bibri
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Background Creating ‘liveable’ cities has become a priority for various sectors, including those tasked with improving population health and reducing inequities.
Amanda Alderton +6 more
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Sustainability of compact cities: the SOS_UrbanLab activity
Urban development is facing new challenges to allow the evolution of the environment, in accordance to sustainability principles. In this context, decision makers have to answer to three main issues: how to intervene on the existing compact ...
Gioia Clementella +7 more
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Built Morphology and the Impact of Planning Policies: Case of Small Towns in Karnataka, India
The morphology of a city undergoes transformation over time due to a variety of factors. One such factor is the master plan. The master plan is a powerful legal tool, the implementation of which has a lasting impact on the morphology of a town both built
Aparna Shastri
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