Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability

Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and

📁 Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability

✍ Joo Hwa Philip Bay and Steffen Lehmann 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

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 understa

Compact City: A Sustainable Urban Form?

📁 Compact City: A Sustainable Urban Form?

✍ Elizabeth Burton, Katie Williams, M. Jenks 📂 Library 📅 1996 🌐 English

This book presents the latest thinking on the benefits and dangers of higher density urban living. It offers diverse opinions and research, from a wide range of disciplines, and gives an insight into both the theoretical debate and the practical challenges surrounding the compact city. Essential rea

Space, density and urban form.

📁 Space, density and urban form.

✍ Meta Yolanda Berghauser Pont; Per André Haupt 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 [s.n.] 🌐 English

Compact Cities: Sustainable Urban Forms

📁 Compact Cities: Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing Countries

✍ Rod Burgess, Mike Jenks 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

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

Megacities: Urban Form, Governance, and

📁 Megacities: Urban Form, Governance, and Sustainability

✍ André Sorensen, Junichiro Okata (auth.), André Sorensen, Junichiro Okata (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Springer Japan 🌐 English

<p>For the first time in human history, more than half the world’s population is urban. A fundamental aspect of this transformation has been the emergence of giant cities, or megacities, that present major new challenges. This book examines how issues of megacity development, urban form, sustainabil

Megacities: Urban Form, Governance, and

📁 Megacities: Urban Form, Governance, and Sustainability

✍ André Sorensen, Junichiro Okata (auth.), André Sorensen, Junichiro Okata (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Springer Japan 🌐 English

<p>For the first time in human history, more than half the world’s population is urban. A fundamental aspect of this transformation has been the emergence of giant cities, or megacities, that present major new challenges. This book examines how issues of megacity development, urban form, sustainabil