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Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2005
The problems of urban sprawl have long been recognized. The classic response to sprawl has been compact settlements of one form or another. Yet the profession’s modern origins stem from responses to overcrowding. Relieving crowding by letting in more light and air led to less compact urban form.
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The problems of urban sprawl have long been recognized. The classic response to sprawl has been compact settlements of one form or another. Yet the profession’s modern origins stem from responses to overcrowding. Relieving crowding by letting in more light and air led to less compact urban form.
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2019
In the urban age, cities are confronting an array of problems: fossil fuel depletion, climate change, ageing population and inadequate urban infrastructure, housing affordability, food and water shortages, social isolation, and a rising burden of non-communicable disease, road injury and mental ill-health.
Mark Stevenson, Jason Thompson
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In the urban age, cities are confronting an array of problems: fossil fuel depletion, climate change, ageing population and inadequate urban infrastructure, housing affordability, food and water shortages, social isolation, and a rising burden of non-communicable disease, road injury and mental ill-health.
Mark Stevenson, Jason Thompson
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Introduction - Compact cities and sustainable development
2019There is a widespread belief that compact urban development contributes to sustainability. Sustainability is seen by many as an essential requirement for human survival on planet Earth. Space consumption by urban development has become a major concern, but throughout the world.
de Roo, G., Miller, D.
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Compact Cities and Sustainable Urban Development
2019This 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 ...
de Roo, Gert, Miller, Donald
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The Compact City: Just or Just Compact? A Preliminary Analysis
Urban Studies, 2000The aim of the research described in this paper is to examine the validity of the claims that higher-density urban form promotes social equity—that is, promotes benefits for the life-chances of low-income groups. Overall, the evidence suggests that, for medium-sized English cities, higher urban densities may be positive for some aspects of social ...
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Are compact cities a threat to public health?
European Planning Studies, 2021Petter Næss +2 more
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Policy Driven Compact Cities: Toward Clarifying the Effect of Compact Cities on Carbon Emissions
Sustainability, 2022Andrew Chapman, Tianhui Fan
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The Future of the Compact City
Built Environment, 2010Nicola Dempsey, Mike Jenks
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Environmental planning and the compact city a dutch perspective
1998In The Netherlands in the early 1980s, the compact city was welcomed by the authorities and the planning profession as a spatial concept. The city was as a place in which to live and work. The National Council for Physical Planning, i.e. the Dutch Ministerial Department for Land Use Planning, defined the compact city policy as one that, "more than any ...
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