Compact Cities: Sustainability Urban Forms Developing Countries

Burgess Rod

Taylor & Francis, 2000 - Political Science - 356 pages

This collection of edited papers forms part of the Compact City Series, creating a companion volume to The Compact City (1996) and Achieving Sustainable Urban Form (2000) and extends the debate to developing countries. This 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.

Contents

• Sustainable Urban Form in Developing Countries?: 1
• Compact Cities in the Context of Developing Countries: 7
• A Global Perspective: 9
• Assessment and Implications: 25
• Core Areas and Metropolitan Regions: 37
• Latin America: 53
• The Case of Asian Cities: 63
• The Pearl River Delta: 73
• Urban Environmentalism in Medellin Colombia: 91
• Pudong in Shanghai: 103
• Urban Climate and Compact Cities in Developing Countries: 117
• Intensification Urban Sprawl and the Peripheries: 125
• Can Urban Management Deliver the Sustainable City? Guided Densification in Brazil versus Informal Compactness in Egypt: 127
• The Case of Dhaka: 141
• The Inverted Compact City of Delhi: 153
• Habitat Quality of Life and Gender in Santiago Chile: 167
• Towards a Strategy for Brazil: 183
• Informal Urban Development in Caracas: 193
• Responses to Compaction at Low and High Densities: 207
• The Management of Urban Growth in South African Cities: 209
• Cultural and Institutional Obstacles to Compact Cities in South Africa: 219
• From Fragmentation to Compaction? The Case of Durban South Africa: 231
• The Development of Hong Kong: 245
• A Sustainable Model for Asia?: 255
• Transport Infrastructure and Environment: 269
• Examples from Eastern Asia: 271
• Bangkok Mass Transit Development Zones: 285
• Costs and Densities: 295
• Calcuttas Urban Ecosystem: 311
• Tainan City Taiwan: 321
• A Developing Country Perspective: 331
• The Appropriateness of Compact City Concepts to Developing Countries: 343
• Index: 351

About the author

Professor Mike Jenks is Deputy Head and Head of Research at the School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University, Rod Burgess is Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Compact Cities: Sustainability Urban Forms Developing Countries; Compact City Series
• Editor: Burgess Rod
• Contributors: Michael Jenks, Burgess Rod
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2000
• ISBN: 0419251308, 9780419251309
• Length: 356 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning; Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development; Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development; Social Science / Sociology / Urban