Compact Cities: Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing Countries

✍ Scribed by Rod Burgess, Mike Jenks

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 369
• Series: Compact City
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection of edited papers forms part of the Compact City Series, creating a sister volume to The Compact City (1996) and Achieving Sustainable Urban Form and extending the debate to developing countries. This new book examines and evaluates the merits and defects of compact city approaches in the context of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Issues of theory, policy and practice relating to sustainability of urban form are examined by a wide range of international academics and practitioners.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction Sustainable Urban Form in Developing Countries?......Page 14
Introduction......Page 20
The Compact City Debate: A Global Perspective......Page 22
Compact Cities in Developing Countries: Assessment and Implications......Page 38
Compact City Policies for Megacities: Core Areas and Metropolitan Regions......Page 50
The Regional Dimension of the Compact City Debate: Latin America......Page 66
The Agricultural Consequences of Compact Development: The Case of Asian Cities......Page 76
The Need for Compact Development in the Fast-Growing Areas of China: The Pearl River Delta......Page 86
The Sustainable City as Metaphor: Urban Environmentalism in Medelln, Colombia......Page 104
A High-Density 'Instant' City: Pudong in Shanghai......Page 116
Urban Climate and Compact Cities in Developing Countries......Page 130
Introduction......Page 138
Can Urban Management Deliver the Sustainable City? Guided Densification in Brazil versus Informal Compactness in Egypt......Page 140
City Expansion Policy versus Compact City Demand: The Case of Dhaka......Page 154
The Inverted Compact City of Delhi......Page 166
Views from the Urban Fringe: Habitat, Quality of Life and Gender in Santiago, Chile......Page 180
Minimising the Negative Effects of Urban Sprawl: Towards a Strategy for Brazil......Page 196
Rethinking the Compact City: Informal Urban Development in Caracas......Page 206
Introduction......Page 220
The Relevance of the Compact City Approach: The Management of Urban Growth in South African Cities......Page 222
Cultural and Institutional Obstacles to Compact Cities in South Africa......Page 232
From Fragmentation to Compaction? The Case of Durban, South Africa......Page 244
High-Rise and High-Density Compact Urban Form: The Development of Hong Kong......Page 258
The Compact City of Hong Kong: A Sustainable Model for Asia?......Page 268
Introduction......Page 282
Transport Dilemmas in Dense Urban Areas: Examples from Eastern Asia......Page 284
Bangkok Mass Transit Development Zones......Page 298
Bulk Engineering Services: Costs and Densities......Page 308
Compact City Environmental Strategies: Calcutta's Urban Ecosystem......Page 324
Spatial Analysis of Urban Sustainability: Tainan City, Taiwan......Page 334
Energy Use and Household Income: A Developing Country Perspective......Page 344
Conclusion The Appropriateness of Compact City Concepts to Developing Countries......Page 356
Index......Page 364