Sustainability, tall buildings, high density and compact city development: Dubai Marina, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Parsa ◽  
Leila Shojaei
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
High Density ◽  
City Development ◽  
Compact City

scholarly journals What Does It Take to Make the Compact City Liveable for Wider Groups? Identifying Key Neighbourhood and Dwelling Features

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Kotulla ◽  
Jon Martin Denstadli ◽  
Are Oust ◽  
Elisabeth Beusker
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
High Density ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
City Development ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Compact City

Compact cities promote sustainability through several mechanisms, and high-density city development has become a key strategy for policy decision makers to accommodate population growth and mitigate human impacts of the local and global environment. The aim of this study is to identify elements of the built environment and inner-city dwellings considered important for improving compact-city liveability for various groups throughout their life cycles. To attend to the depth and complexity of this issue, this study is based on a qualitative approach, where data are gathered through in-depth interviews with housing market specialists. The expert panel emphasises proximity to green spaces and easy access to local services/facilities and public transportation as key elements of the built environment to improve compact-city liveability. At the same time, some of the respondents strongly argue with facilitating neighbourhoods for private cars. With regard to dwelling characteristics, the experts emphasised the importance of adequate storage space and the availability of a balcony as vital to high-density liveability. Balconies can alleviate some of the negative effects by working as a personal ‘mini garden’. Moreover, a general opinion among experts is that compact living developments should facilitate shared facilities to level out the space disadvantages of small-space dwellings.

scholarly journals Scaling the Potential of Compact City Development: The Case of Lahore, Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5257
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nadeem ◽  
Amer Aziz ◽  
Muhammad Ahmad Al-Rashid ◽  
Giovanni Tesoriere ◽  
Muhammad Asim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transportation Network ◽  
High Density ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
City Development ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Erdas Imagine ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
Urban Extent ◽  
Scaling Matrix

With increasing urban populations, high vehicle miles have made the concept of a compact city imperative. A compact city is characterized by high-density development and mixed land use with no urban sprawl. City managers are trying hard to make their cities compact and livable. The potential conformance to a compact city development requires scaling before any significant intervention. Several studies have been conducted on the different aspects of the compact city in the developed world, but there is limited understanding in the South Asian context. This study aimed to fill this research gap and proposes a theoretical matrix to gauge the potential compactness of Lahore, Pakistan. It comprises some key attributes, such as landscape ecology, measurement of density, density distribution, transportation network, accessibility, dispersion index, and mixed-use land consumption, which were analyzed in this research. The data were analyzed using Geographical Information System (GIS) and ERDAS IMAGINE software to make a scaling matrix. The research findings show that Lahore is a semi-compact city, with high potential to become a true compact city. The paper recommends that the urban extent should not be extended until targeted colonization is achieved, and the spatial growth of the city should be managed by encouraging infilled development, high-density living, and public transport provision. This research will help policymakers, urban planners, and transport planners devising policies for compact city development.

scholarly journals Spatially organized «vertical city» as a synthesis of tall buildings and airships

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 01002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Gagulina ◽  
Sergei Matovnikov
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Internal Space ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
High Rise ◽  
City Space

The paper explores the compact city concept based on the «spatial» urban development principles and describes the prerequisites and possible methods to move from «horizontal» planning to «vertical» urban environments. It highlights the close connection between urban space, high-rise city landscape and conveyance options and sets out the ideas for upgrading the existing architectural and urban planning principles. It also conceptualizes the use of airships to create additional spatial connections between urban structure elements and high-rise buildings. Functional changes are considered in creating both urban environment and internal space of tall buildings, and the environmental aspects of the new spatial model are brought to light. The paper delineates the prospects for making a truly «spatial» multidimensional city space.

scholarly journals Evacuation egress in high rise building: Review of the current design evacuation solution

2019 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 03012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hazrina Mansor ◽  
Yazmin Sahol Hamid ◽  
Nurul Huda Suliman ◽  
Nursafarina Ahmad ◽  
Noorfaizah Hamzah
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Tall Building ◽  
Building Evacuation ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Safety Systems ◽  
Engineering Practices

In the aftermath of the September 11th attack, design of tall buildings particularly in the aspect of safety systems and structural robustness, arguably the most crucial issues that is deliberated till to date. Concerning the safety systems specifically on evacuation egress, many novels and innovative evacuation solutions for high rise buildings that have been researched and put forward, for instances Platform Rescue Systems (PRS), Controlled Descent Devices (CDD) and Escape Chutes. Still, the practicability of the existing proposed egress systems to be implemented in the real-life situation and its compliance with the tall building design legislation remain unknown. For developing countries such as Malaysia and United Arab Emirates, tall buildings play a role as an iconic landmark. While countries like China and Hong Kong, tall building is needed due to the scarcity of land and high populations. As more than one hundred tall structure exists in the world, and will be increasing by 2020; therefore, it is urgently needed that existing engineering practices in designing tall building to be reviewed with respect to evacuation egress. The main objective of this paper is to create awareness among developers, consultants and contractors that proper evacuation egress in tall building design and development is a must. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the existing engineering practices on tall building evacuation planning systems and design. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the currently proposed systems and its consideration amongst structural and safety engineers are also reported.

scholarly journals Mixed-use development in a high-rise context

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 01021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena M. Generalova ◽  
Viktor P. Generalov ◽  
Anna A. Kuznetsova ◽  
Oksana N. Bobkova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Tall Building ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

The article deals with an actual problem of finding techniques and methods to create a comfortable urban environment. The authors emphasize that in the existing conditions of intensive urban development greater attention should be given to spatial concentration based on and more compact distribution of population in urban space. It is stressed that including mixed-use facilities into urban realm results in a significant improvement of living environment qualitative characteristics. The paper also examines modern approaches to constructing a «compact city» for comfortable and convenient living with a mixed-use tall building development. The authors explore the world's experience of designing tall mixed-use buildings and reveal modern trends in their construction. The statistics given is based on the data analysis of a group of tall mixed-use buildings consisting of more than 400 objects, constructed in 2007-2016. The research shows functional and architectural peculiarities of this typology of tall buildings and investigates a mechanism of creating zones of mixed-use tall building development in the urban structure. In conclusion, the authors consider prospects of development and major directions of improvement of mixed-use tall building parameters for a reasonable territorial urban growth and creation of high-density and comfortable building development.

scholarly journals The Progressive Effects of Built Environments on Supporting Physical Activity Diversity in High-Density Areas: A Case Study in Shenzhen, China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Gao ◽  
Kun Liu ◽  
Peiling Zhou ◽  
Hongkun Xie
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
High Density ◽  
Mental Condition ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
City Development ◽  
Healthy City ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

Abstract Background: Physical activity diversity (PAD) is an essential indicator to present the vitality of health city, and how to improve PAD from the built environment perspective is a key issue for healthy urban planning and design, especially in high-density cities; Methods: This study selected Shenzhen, China as a representative case, combined the diversity of PA participants, types and occurrence times for the comprehensive understanding of PAD, fully used multiple source data for the measurement and statistical analysis of PAD and built environments, to discover the relationships between the built environment and PAD, and to explore the different effects in clustered and sprawled high-density urban forms; Results: PAD was unevenly distributed in Shenzhen, higher in the clustered areas and lower in the sprawled ares and the effects of the built environment on PAD were significantly different between two kinds of areas; Conclusions: the built environment supports PAD by progressive effects, in which accessibility is the necessary and funda-mental condition to activate individual PAs, inclusiveness is sufficiently supports the coaction of various kind of PAs to consolidate PAD, and landscape attractiveness furtherly aggregates more PAs to achieve higher PAD. To create accessible, inclusive, and attractive built environments are crucial ways to improve the vitality of healthy city development in high-density cities.

scholarly journals Compact and Resource Efficient Cities? Synergies and Trade-offs in European Cities

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fertner ◽  
Juliane Große
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Resource Efficiency ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
City Development ◽  
City Region ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Rebound Effects ◽  
Trade Offs

Cities are the main consumers of energy and resources but at the same time are considered as centres for innovation which can provide solutions to unsustainable development. An important concept regarding energy and resource efficiency on the scale of the city and city-region is the compact city. Compact cities and compact urban development are thought to decrease energy and resource demand per capita and increase efficiency. At the same time trade-offs and potential rebound effects of increased resource efficiency question certain achievements of a compact urban structure. This paper reviews aspects of resource and energy efficiency in compact city development in a European context. We conclude that, if the idea of the compact city should have any effect on resource and energy efficiency, accompanying measures have to be implemented, such as e.g. efficient public transport systems to offer alternative travel modes. Also the allocation of efficiency gains due to compact urban development has to be taken into account in order to avoid direct and indirect rebound effects.

The Study of the Method of China Cities Underground Space Development and Utilization

2012 ◽  
Vol 209-211 ◽  
pp. 600-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Dai ◽  
Xiu Ting Wei
Keyword(s):  
Residential Building ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Underground Space ◽  
City Development ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Cycle Economy ◽  
Development And Utilization ◽  
City Construction ◽  
The City

The city of today, its economy is one of the biggest problems to solve, development and utilization of urban underground space, the construction "compact" city, become the key to the gate open city construction. This paper mainly through urban underground expressway, underground residential building, underground sewage system, public facilities "common ditch", underground green space, underground recreation places, geothermal, underground city, the several potential city development and utilization of underground ways, this paper puts forward the scientific development view in the central guidance, to build a "harmonious society", the development of "the cycle economy" and construction "sustainable city" is of great significance.

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