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The Green Dimension of a Compact City: Temperature Changes in the Urban Area of Banja Luka
Buildings, 2023 Responsible and rational urban planning is reflected in an integral and multidimensional approach to city development. Contemporary theories of sustainable and resilient urban planning support a clear vision and strategy for city development, emphasizing
Una Okilj +3 more
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Landscapes for compact cities [PDF]
Journal of Landscape Architecture, 2019 The pursuit of urban sustainability is a goal that is belatedly gaining traction in the urban design of many cities worldwide, hastened by concerns over the increasing extent of the impact of human...
Puay Yok Tan, Bianca Maria Rinaldi
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Dialogues in Human Geography, 2023 In our article, ‘Diversifying the compact city’ (2023), we aimed to open a dialogue in human geography and beyond on how to broaden the scope of how we examine and critique compact urbanism. The insightful and constructive commentaries we received generated further reflection on the lived experiences of compact urbanism and the mutual benefits of ...
Håvard Haarstad +3 more
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Compact and Resource Efficient Cities? Synergies and Trade-offs in European Cities
European Spatial Research and Policy, 2016 Cities are the main consumers of energy and resources but at the same time are considered as centres for innovation which can provide solutions to unsustainable development.
Christian Fertner, Juliane Große
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Social capital vs. anonymity? 3Ds Urban form and social capital development in Indonesian cities
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2022 Discussions on the relationship between urban form and social capital have garnered attention for a long time as they are well documented in the literature. However, the empirical analysis regarding these two issues is still limited.
Irfani Fithria Ummul Muzayanah +3 more
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Moravian Geographical Reports, 2023 Urban structure conceptualisation using compact and polycentric city narratives is often performed separately. However, although both are based on different spatial grammars, they are inextricably linked.
Lichter Marek, Malý Jiří
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Land, 2023 City densification and greening are two priority urban-policy objectives, for the coming years, aimed at making cities more resilient to climate change, slowing the spread of urbanization and improving the quality of life in cities.
Itxaro Latasa, Angela Laurenz
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Sustainable Transport in a Compact City [PDF]
, 2010 Transport policies in many countries seek to achieve a modal shift from the private car to public transport, in order to reduce environmental externalities like (local) air pollution, stench and visual annoyance, congestion etc. At the same time, the relationship between the spatial organisation and transportation is widely acknowledged, because the ...
Nijkamp, Peter, Rienstra, Sytze A.
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Promoting urban light rail transit in a compact city context: the case of Toyama City, Japan
Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2022 Cities worldwide have introduced or revived light rail transit (LRT) to develop compact city strategies and help address environmental issues, such as increasing CO2 emissions or air pollution.
Hiroshi Ito, Nobuo Kawazoe
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Marketing Approaches in Planning of the Compact City
Barometr Regionalny, 2017 The paper presents an attempt at assessment of marketing values of the structure of the compact city in the context of current tendencies in the development of cities and self-governmental activities.
Anna Sawicka
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