Compact Cities: Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing Countries

Introduction: Sustainable Urban Form in Developing Countries? by Mike Jenks p.1, Part One: Compact Cities in the Context of Development Countries: Introduction p.7, The Compact City Debate: A Global Perspective by Rod Burgess p.9, Compact Cities in Developing Countries: Assessment and Implications by Harry W. Richardson, Chang-Hee Christine Bae, Murtaza Baxamusa p.25, Compact City Policies for Megacities: Core Areas and Metropolitan Regions by Tony Lloyd Jones p.37, The Regional Dimension of the Compact City Debate: Latin America by Marisa Carmona p.53, The Agricultural Consequences of Compact Urban Development: The Case of Asian Cities by Thomas A. Clark and Te – I Albert Tsai p.63, The Need for Compact Development in the Fast-Growing Areas of China: The Pearl River Delta by Anthony Gar on Yeh and Xia Li p.73, The Sustainable City as Metaphor: Urban Environmentalism in Medellín, Colombia by Peter Brand p.91, A High-Density ‘Instant’ City: Pudong in Shanghai by Stephen S.Y.Lau, Q.M.Mahtab-uz-Zaman and So Hing Mei p.103, Urban Climate and Compact Cities in Developing Countries by Silvia de Schiller and John Martin Evans p.117, Part Two: Intensification, Urban Sprawl and the Peripheries: Introduction p.125, Can Urban Management Deliver the Sustainable City? Guided Densification in Brazil versus Informal Compactness in Egypt by Claudio C. Acioly Jr p.127, City Expansion Policy versus Compact City Demand: The Case of Dhaka by Q.M.Mahtab-uz-Zaman and Stephen S.Y.Lau p.141, The Inverted Compact City of Delhi by Ashok Kumar p.153, Views from the Urban Fringe: Habitat, Quality of Life and Gender in Santiago, Chile by Giulietta Fadda, Paola Jirón, Adriana Allen p.167, Minimising the Negative Effects of Urban Sprawl: Towards a Strategy for Brazil by Antonio Nelson Rodrigues da Silva, Archimedes Azevedo Raia Jr. and Antonio Clovis Pinto Ferraz p.183, Rethinking the Compact City: Informal Urban Development in Caracas by Kerstin Zillmann p.193, Part Three: Responses to Compaction at Low and High Densities: Introduction p.207, The Relevance of the Compact City Approach: The Management of Urban Growth in South African Cities by David Dewar p.209, Cultural and Institutional Obstacles to Compact Cities in South Africa by Maria D. Schoonraad p.219, From Fragmentation to Compaction? The Case of Durban, South Africa by Alison Todes, Teresa Dominik, Doug Hindson p.231, High-Rise and High-Density Compact Urban Form: The Development of Hong Kong by Xing Quan Zhang p.245, The Compact City of Hong Kong: A Sustainable Model for Asia? By Q.M.Mahtab-uz-Zaman, Stephen S.Y.Lau and So Hing Mei p.255, Part Four: Transport, Infrastructure and Environment: Introduction p.269, Transport Dilemmas in Dense Urban Areas: Examples from Eastern Asia by Paul A. Barter p.271, Bangkok Mass Transit Development Zones by Malcolm Moor, Clarke Rees p.285, Bulk Engineering Services: Costs and Densities by Sharon Biermann p.295, Compact City Environmental Strategies: Calcutta’s Urban Ecosystem by Paul F. Downton p.311, Spatial Analysis of Urban Sustainability: Tainan City, Taiwan by Ko-Wan Tsou, Yu-Ting Hung, Yao-Lin Chang p.321, Energy Use and Household Income: A Developing Country Perspective by B. Sudhakara Reddy p.331, Conclusion: The Appropriateness of Compact City Concepts to Developing Countries by Mike Jenks