Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability (Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design)

"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."--Provided by publisher Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Compact Urban Form, Density And Sustainability: Correlations And Holistic Approaches / Steffen Lehmann -- Pt. I Framing The Question: Unravelling The Link Between Density, Sustainability And Compact Cities -- 2. Urban Lifelines To Achieve Climate Resiliency / Donald Watson -- 3. Planning Ethics And Urban Density: Overcoming Fear In Anglo-saxon Cities / Peter Newman -- 4. Density, Sprawl And Sustainable Urban Development: Perspectives From The Asian And Pacific Region / Donovan Storey -- 5. The Challenge Of Transforming A Low-density City Into A Compact City: The Case Of The City Of Perth, Australia / Steffen Lehmann -- 6. Compact City And Sustainable High-density Living: Social-environmental Holistic Approach / Joo Hwa Philip Bay -- Pt. Ii Quality Of Living And Social Dimensions Relating To Environmental Sustainability -- 7. The Sustainable City: A Good And Secure Quality Of Life? / Mike Jenks -- 8. Density, Compact Urban Form And Sustainability In The Netherlands / Frank Van Der Hoeven -- 9. Security And Density: Hyper-surveillance, Public Safety And Social Sustainability / Emil Jonescu -- 10. Dense And Ageing: Social Sustainability Of Public Places Amidst High-density Development / Michael M.j. Fischer -- 11. Creating Green Space In The Compact City: A Swedish Perspective On A Global Issue / Helene Littke -- Pt. 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 / Lu Aye -- 13. Decentralized Water And Energy Infrastructure: Integration Into Compact Urban Form / Martin Anda -- 14. The Shape Of Resilience: A Framework For Integrating Regenerative Production Of Localised Food And Energy Within An Urban Community / Joo Hwa Philip Bay -- 15. Food Production And Density: The Design Of A High-rise Housing Development In Singapore / Sunjyot Singh -- Pt. Iv Design Systems And Structural Approaches Impacting Density And Sustainability -- 16. Hong Kong: Appearing Dense, Yet Growing Smarter / Tom Verebes -- 17. Relationship Between Density, Urban Form And Environmental Performance / Ji Zhang -- 18. Housing Innovation For Compact, Resilient Cities / Steffen Lehmann -- 19. To Follow The Australian Dream Or To Embrace Urban Densification: A Prolonged Debate? / Andrew Carville -- Pt. 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 / Steffen Lehmann -- 21. Growing Sydney: Advocacy For Urban Density / Chris Johnson -- 22. Re-introducing Density In Shrinking Cities: Lessons From Japanese Cities / Tadashi Matsumoto -- 23. Density And Sustainability: Strange Bedfellows? / Rachel Cooper. Edited By Joo Hwa Philip Bay And Steffen Lehmann. Earthscan From Routledge Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover Page -- 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 The book presents contributions from internationally well-known scholars, thinkers and practitioners whose theoretical and practical work addresses urban density and sustainability at various levels, from city planning and design to public space and architectural design.