Review: The Compact City: A Sustainable Urban Form?, The Urban Order: An Introduction to Cities, Culture, and Power, Disability and the City: International Perspectives, Changing Places: Women's Lives in the City, Planning as Persuasive Storytelling: The Rhetorical Construction of Chicago's Electric Future, the Environmental Impact of Land and Property Management, Regional Policy and Development 18. Innovation, Networks and Learning Regions?, Environmental Impact Statements: A Practical Guide for Agencies, Citizens, and Consultants, Regenerating Town Centres

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-320
Author(s):  
H Barton ◽  
R A Beauregard ◽  
R Kitchin ◽  
C Greed ◽  
S Hinchliffe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Property Management ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Rhetorical Construction ◽  
Environmental Impact Statements ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Evaluating the urban form of a mountainous city from the perspective of compactness characteristics: Kigali city, Rwanda

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Rwampungu ◽  
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Nobuo Mishima ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Authority Control ◽  
Sustainable Planning ◽  
The City

A better understanding of the composition and form of cities, and how land use changes throughout a city, can provide helpful insights for city sustainable planning. Many sustainable city models have been studied and the compact city concept has been adopted as one the sustainable model in city planning policies of many countries. However, due to dynamic nature of the city structures around the world, there exists a limited consensus on parameters and dimensions to measure urban compactness especially in the cities developed in unplanned manners. This study aims at analyzing and understanding the urban form in Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda. Two dimensions of spatial organization and spatial distribution of population were measured using GIS functions to objectively evaluate physical compactness. Findings reflected trend of decrease in compact form with absence of sustainable concepts due to lack of regularity authority control and haphazard development. Suggestive measures were provided for future consideration in sustainable urban development of the city.

Airbnb and Amenity: Is Short-Term Letting Reshaping How We Live in the City?

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-128
Author(s):  
Laura Crommelin ◽  
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Sharon Parkinson ◽  
Chris Martin ◽  
Laurence Troy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Rights And Interests ◽  
Individual And Community Rights ◽  
The City

The popularity of short-term letting (STL) platforms like Airbnb has created housing and planning challenges for cities worldwide, including the potential impact of STL on the quality of life of nearby residents and communities. Underpinning this concern is an inherent tension in urban living between the rights and interests of individual residents and the collective rights and interests of neighbours. Through interviews with Australian Airbnb hosts, this paper examines how STL hosts navigate this tension, including how they frame their rights, how they seek to minimise impacts on neighbours, and how they perceive the role of regulation in balancing individual and community rights. In doing so, the paper contributes to both theory and policy debates about urban property rights and how ‘compact city’ planning orthodoxies are reshaping the lived experience of urban residents worldwide.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMATION OF SMALL SLOVAK TOWNS IN THE ERA OF SOCIALISM EXAMPLE OF BÁNOVCE NAD BEBRAVOU / NEDIDELIŲ SLOVAKIJOS MIESTŲ KAITA SOCIALISTINIU LAIKOTARPIU BANOVCE NAD BEBRAVOU PAVYZDŽIU

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Andrea LACKOVÁ ◽  
Lívia ŠIŠLÁKOVÁ
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

Several decades of socialism had their effect on urbanism and architecture of towns. These processes can be found in several post-socialist countries. One of the examples in Slovakia is the town of Bánovce nad Bebravou. Until the end of the 19th century the town was not economically important. During the time of socialism the city underwent significant architectural and urban changes due to large industrial development. The definitive image of the historic core changed according to the principles of modern urbanism. Nowadays with the compact city policies, it is important to find the balance between the traditional compact urban form and the modern urban form. The contribution deals with mapping and the process of former urban changes. The aim is to find locations for the transformation and refurbishment of the town’s historic core, in order to its preserved cultural and historical values, while fulfilling the requirement for an ecological and sustainable city.

Risen from Ruins

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Stangl
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
East German ◽  
New City ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
The City

This book examines city building in East Berlin from the end of World War II on May 8, 1945, until the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961—a period of great interest in reshaping the city to express new political ideals. It examines how key decision-makers were influenced by their worldview and political ideology; beliefs about the relationship between urban form and society including formal theories; political strategizing at municipal, national, and international levels; and assessments concerning the deployment of limited resources. The book emphasizes how extant discourses acted as “pathways of memory,” shaping the way key actors attributed meaning to different elements of the urban landscape. The East German approach to creating a new city and a new society did not neatly mimic the Soviet model, and it did not emerge in a creative flash. Rather, the city planning and building depended upon the selective application of existing discourses based on cultural and political leaders’ personal knowledge, beliefs, and preferences, their assessments of contemporary political and material conditions, and their view regarding long-term development. Novelty would arrive in how cultural and political leaders combined these elements and how some frameworks were adapted over time.

scholarly journals A Promotional Construction Approach for an Urban Three-Dimensional Compactness Model—Law-of-Gravitation-Based

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 6777
Author(s):  
Xinyue Hu ◽  
Han Yan ◽  
Deng Wang ◽  
Zhuoqun Zhao ◽  
Guoqin Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Spatial Form ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Index Model ◽  
Urban Buildings ◽  
Model Law ◽  
The City ◽  
Compactness Index

Urban sprawl has led to various economic, social, and environmental problems. Therefore, it is very significant to improve the efficiency of resource usage and promote the development of compact urban form. It is a common topic that measuring urban compactness is done with certain ways and methods as well. Presently, most urban compactness measurement methods are based on two-dimensional (2D) formats, but methods based on three-dimensional (3D) formats that can precisely describe the actual urban spatial conditions are still lacking. To measure the compactness of the 3D urban spatial form accurately, a 3D Compactness Index (VCI) was established based on the Law of Gravitation and the quantitative measurement model. In this model, larger 3D Compactness Index values indicate a more 3D-compact city. However, different urban scales may influence the discrepancy scale of different cities. Thus, the 3D Compactness Index model was normalized as the Normalized 3D Compactness Index (NVCI) to eliminate such discrepancies. In the Normalized 3D Compactness Index model, a sphere with the same volume of real urban buildings in the city was assumed as the most compact 3D urban form, and which was also calculated by 3D Compactness Index processing. The compactness value of the normalized 3D urban form is obtained by comparing the 3D Compactness Index with the most compact 3D urban form. In this study, 1149 typical communities in Xiamen, China, were selected as the experimental fields to verify the index. Some of communities have a quite different Normalized 3D Compactness Index, although they have a similar Normalized 2D Compactness Index (NCI), respectively. Moreover, comparing with the 2D Compactness Index (CI) and Normalized 2D Compactness Index (NCI), the 3D Compactness Index and Normalized 3D Compactness Index can describe and explain reality more precisely. The constructed 3D urban compactness model is expected to contribute to scientific study on urban compactness.

scholarly journals Integrated shopping centre as a component of the compact city

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-222
Author(s):  
Marija Cvetković ◽  
Ivan Simić
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
City Planning ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Shopping Centre ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Industrial Buildings ◽  
Core Areas ◽  
Principles Of Design

In this paper we will present compact city planning and design concept, which compared to other concepts of the sustainable urban form, most fully incorporates all relevant topics and urban policies, such as increasing the density of development, ensuring a mix of uses, containing urban 'sprawl' and achieving social and economic diversity and vitality. We will examine integrated shopping centre as a component of the compact city, and establish its relationship with the concept of the compact city and its characteristics. The shopping centre concept in historical city core areas is not originally a sustainable concept. Instead, the concept of adaptive reuse of old industrial buildings located in the vicinity of city centre into retail functions is considered more sustainable and can be considered as a component of the compact city planning. The aim of this study is to examine the importance of integrated pedestrian environment for urban realm within the framework of the compact city concept. In order to determine the level of compatibility between the principles of sustainable urban form and the integrated shopping centre (ISC) principles of design, we will examine several case studies of shopping malls in the Czech Republic and Poland which are designed with the ISC principles in mind.

scholarly journals PROPOSAL OF A SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR FORMULATING COMPACT CITY PLANNING BASED ON THE CITY PLANNING OF PORTLAND

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 (749) ◽  
pp. 1251-1261
Author(s):  
Reiko SUGIHARA ◽  
Shinji IKARUGA ◽  
Shirou TSUBOI ◽  
Takeshi KOBAYASHI ◽  
Junhwan SONG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Compact City ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Sharing Lisboa: A Digital Social Market to Promote Sustainable and Energy Efficient Behaviours

Climate ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Catarina C. Rolim ◽  
Patrícia Baptista
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
New City ◽  
Social Market ◽  
The City ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Change Mitigation

Several solutions and city planning policies have emerged to promote climate change and sustainable cities. The Sharing Cities program has the ambition of contributing to climate change mitigation by improving urban mobility, energy efficiency in buildings and reducing carbon emissions by successfully engaging citizens and fostering local-level innovation. A Digital Social Market (DSM), named Sharing Lisboa, was developed in Lisbon, Portugal, supported by an application (APP), enabling the exchange of goods and services bringing citizens together to support a common cause: three schools competing during one academic year (2018/2019) to win a final prize with the engagement of school community and surrounding community. Sharing Lisboa aimed to promote behaviour change and the adoption of energy-saving behaviours such as cycling and walking with the support of local businesses. Participants earned points that reverted to the cause (school) they supported. A total of 1260 users was registered in the APP, collecting more than 850,000 points through approximately 17,000 transactions. This paper explores how the DSM has the potential to become a new city service promoting its sustainable development. Furthermore, it is crucial for this concept to reach economic viability through a business model that is both profitable and useful for the city, businesses and citizens, since investment will be required for infrastructure and management of such a market.

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