Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability

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

PART IV Design systems and structural approaches impacting density and sustainability -- 16 Hong Kong: appearing dense, yet growing smarter -- 17 Relationship between density, urban form and environmental performance -- 18 Housing innovation for compact, resilient cities -- 19 To follow the Australian dream or to embrace urban densification: a prolonged debate? -- PART 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 -- 21 Growing Sydney: advocacy for urban density -- 22 Re-introducing density in shrinking cities: lessons from Japanese cities -- 23 Density and sustainability: strange bedfellows? -- Index