04624oam 2200589M 450 991045589870332120200324081313.01-135-80390-01-280-03223-597866100322350-203-47862-2(MiAaPQ)EBC171775(Au-PeEL)EBL171775(CaPaEBR)ebr10062752(CaONFJC)MIL3223(OCoLC)304072262(OCoLC)793588549(OCoLC-P)793588549(FlBoTFG)9780203478622(EXLCZ)9911108702708905420040202j20001214 uy 0engur|n|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCompact Cities Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing CountriesNew York Routledge2000Boulder NetLibrary, Incorporated [distributor]1 online resource (xi, 356 p.) ill1-138-13205-5 0-419-25130-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.AnnotationThis 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.Sociology, UrbanDeveloping countriesCities and townsGrowthCity planningDeveloping countriesSustainable developmentDeveloping countriesElectronic books.Sociology, UrbanCities and townsGrowth.City planningSustainable development711.4091724Jenks Michael H.941006Burgess RodOCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910455898703321Compact Cities2122165UNINA