Growing compact: urban form, density and sustainability. / Edited by Joo Hwa Philip Bay and Steffen Lehmann
Language: English Series: Earthscan Series on Sustainable DesignPublication details: Routledge, 2017. New York:Description: xxvi, 390 pISBN:- 9781138680401
- 307.76 GRO
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Foreword. Donald Watson. 1. Introduction: Compact urban form, density and sustainability: Correlations and holistic approaches. Joo Hwa Philip Bay and Steffen Lehmann. Part 1: 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. Paul Jones and Donovan Storey. 5. The challenge of transforming low-density cities into compact cities: The case of the City of Perth. Steffen Lehmann. 6. Compact city and sustainable high-density living: Social-environmental holistic approach. Joo Hwa Philip Bay. Part 2: 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.Jeroen Mensink and Frank D. van der Hoeven. 9. Security and density: A paradox of public protection at the expense of personal privacy. Emil Jonescu. 10. Dense and aging: Social sustainability of public places amidst high-density development. Keng Hua Chong, Kien To and Michael M.J. Fischer. 11. Creating green space in the compact city: A Swedish perspective on a global issue. Walker Wells, Tigran Haas and Helene Littke. Part 3: Compact Resource Management, Greening and Integration with Urban Form. 12. Green Plot Ratio and MUtopia. Boon Lay Ong, Ole Fryd, Dominique Hes, Tuan Duc Ngo and Lu Aye. 13. Density and sustainable integration of decentralised water and energy systems. Martin Anda. 14. The shape of resilience: A framework for integrating regenerative production of localised food and energy within a urban community. Steve Herselman and Joo Hwa Philip Bay. 15. Food production and high-density living in Singapore. Joo Hwa Philip Bay, Owen L.C. Wee and Sunjyot Singh. Part 4: 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. Chye Kiang Heng, Lai Choo Malone-Lee and Ji Zhang. 18. Housing innovation for compact, resilient cities. Caitlin McGee, Laura Wynne and Steffen Lehmann. 19. To follow the Australian dream or to embrace urban densification: A prolonged debate? Shahed Khan and Andrew Carville. Part 5: 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 quality density. Steffen Lehmann. 21.Growing Sydney: Advocacy for urban density. Chris Johnson. 22. Shrinking compact: Lessons from Japanese cities. Tadashi Matsumoto. 23. Density and sustainability: Strange bedfellows? Christopher T. Boyko and Rachel Cooper. Index.
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