Compact city, urban sprawl, and subjective well-being
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2019.04.013
Abstract: Abstract Understanding the role of the built environment in subjective well-being (SWB) can provide important input to urban planning debates on synergies and conflicts between environmental and social sustainability of cities. Hitherto, there is little… read more here.
Keywords: subjective well; swb; compact city; urban form ... See more keywords
Diversifying the compact city: A renewed agenda for geographical research
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DOI: 10.1177/20438206221102949
Abstract: The compact city has become part of the policy orthodoxy in dealing with climate change and other sustainability challenges, and scholars from a diverse set of disciplines have informed this policy through empirical research. In… read more here.
Keywords: renewed agenda; geography; compact city; diversifying compact ... See more keywords
Density and the compact city
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DOI: 10.1177/20438206221144821
Abstract: The ‘compact city’ agenda has become commonplace and is often presented as an urban ‘good’ in mainstream urban research, policy, and practice. Haarstad et al.'s intervention aims to bring critical geographical research to this debate,… read more here.
Keywords: geography; density compact; compact city; city ... See more keywords
It’s not about compact cities
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DOI: 10.1177/20438206221144822
Abstract: While the compact city has become a major element for sustainable urban development and one of the most controversially discussed issues in contemporary urban studies, I argue that compactness has been a central element of… read more here.
Keywords: compact city; conception; compact cities; city ... See more keywords
Between the Ideal and Reality of City Resizing Policy: Focused on 25 Cases of Compact City Plans in Japan
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DOI: 10.3390/su12030989
Abstract: Since 2014, Japan has implemented a policy for forming a compact urban structure at a national level through an urban planning technique called a location normalization plan. A residence-induced zone included in the location normalization… read more here.
Keywords: residence; policy; city; induced zones ... See more keywords