Compact Cities : Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing Countries

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455898703321
• Autore: Jenks Michael H.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2000; Boulder, : NetLibrary, Incorporated [distributor]
• ISBN: 1-135-80390-0; 1-280-03223-5; 9786610032235; 0-203-47862-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 356 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 711.4091724
• Soggetti: Sociology, Urban - Developing countries; Cities and towns - Growth; City planning - Developing countries; Sustainable development - Developing countries; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction Sustainable Urban Form in Developing Countries? -- Part One Compact Cities in the Context of Developing Countries -- Introduction -- The Compact City Debate: A Global Perspective -- Compact Cities in Developing Countries: Assessment and Implications -- Compact City Policies for Megacities: Core Areas and Metropolitan Regions -- The Regional Dimension of the Compact City Debate: Latin America -- The Agricultural Consequences of Compact Development: The Case of Asian Cities -- The Need for Compact Development in the Fast-Growing Areas of China: The Pearl River Delta -- The Sustainable City as Metaphor: Urban Environmentalism in Medelln, Colombia -- A High-Density 'Instant' City: Pudong in Shanghai -- Urban Climate and Compact Cities in Developing Countries -- Part Two Intensification, Urban Sprawl and the Peripheries -- Introduction -- Can Urban Management Deliver the Sustainable City? Guided Densification in Brazil versus Informal Compactness in Egypt -- City Expansion Policy versus ; Compact City Demand: The Case of Dhaka -- The Inverted Compact City of Delhi -- Views from the Urban Fringe: Habitat, Quality of Life and Gender in Santiago, Chile -- Minimising the Negative Effects of Urban Sprawl: Towards a Strategy for Brazil -- Rethinking the Compact City: Informal Urban Development in Caracas -- Part Three Responses to Compaction at High and Low Densities -- Introduction -- The Relevance of the Compact City Approach: The Management of Urban Growth in South African Cities -- Cultural and Institutional Obstacles to Compact Cities in South Africa -- From Fragmentation to Compaction? The Case of Durban, South Africa -- High-Rise and High-Density Compact Urban Form: The Development of Hong Kong -- The Compact City of Hong Kong: A Sustainable Model for Asia? -- Part Four Transport, Infrastructure and Environment -- Introduction -- Transport Dilemmas in Dense Urban Areas: Examples from Eastern Asia -- Bangkok Mass Transit Development Zones -- Bulk Engineering Services: Costs and Densities -- Compact City Environmental Strategies: Calcutta's Urban Ecosystem -- Spatial Analysis of Urban Sustainability: Tainan City, Taiwan -- Energy Use and Household Income: A Developing Country Perspective -- Conclusion The Appropriateness of Compact City Concepts to Developing Countries -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Annotation