scholarly journals Leidsche Rijn: Balancing the Compact City with the Randstad Motorway Network

10.5772/36615 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank van der Hoeven
Keyword(s):  
Compact City

scholarly journals Landscape design approaches to enhance human–wildlife interactions in a compact tropical city

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Hye Hwang ◽  
Anuj Jain
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Public Preference ◽  
Conservation Principles ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Abstract Urban landscapes have the potential to conserve wildlife. Despite increasing recognition of this potential, there are few collaborative efforts to integrate ecology and conservation principles into context-dependent, spatial and actionable design strategies. To address this issue and to encourage multi-disciplinary research on urban human–wildlife interactions, we ask the following questions. To what extent should design and planning actions be aligned with urban ecology in the context of a compact city? How can wildlife conservation meet the seemingly conflictual demands of urban development and public preference? To answer these questions, we refer to the relevant literature and a number of design projects. Using the compact tropical city of Singapore as a case study, we propose 12 design strategies. We encourage designers and planners to strengthen the links between wildlife and urban dwellers and promote wildlife conservation within cities.

scholarly journals New Housing Developments in the City Center of Guadalajara (Mexico): An Analysis from the Perspective of Collective and Sustainable Dwelling

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Alessandra Cireddu
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
City Center ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Horizontal Growth ◽  
Downtown Redevelopment ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
The City ◽  
New Buildings

New vertical housing developments in Guadalajara (Mexico) are reaching the city center as a response for redensification after many years of expansion of the urban area characterized by a suburban, low density and fragmented pattern. This horizontal growth, dominated by use of the automobile as prevailing mode of transport, has proven to be unsustainable not only from an environmental point of view, but also from a social perspective where the “human scale” of the city has been affected, same as the daily life of its inhabitants. On the other hand, vertical housing proposals are by their very nature associated with concepts of redensification, compact city and collective living; the aim of this article is to analyze some new housing developments in Guadalajara downtown in order to evaluate to what extent the new buildings embody a more sustainable, livable and collective dwelling, to discuss findings, successes and failures and thus be able to contribute some conclusions and open a broader reflection about contemporary housing, urban density and downtown redevelopment in Latin America cities through collective and sustainable dwelling.

Compact city, a plan for a liveable urban environment

Urban Ecology ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 1 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 325-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.F. Brotchie
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Compact City

Effects of a Compact City on Urban Resources and Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 142 (4) ◽  
pp. 05016002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Longyu Shi ◽  
Shuncheng Yang ◽  
Lijie Gao
Keyword(s):  
Compact City

The Compact City: A Sustainable Urban Form

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Cairnes
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Compact City

Urban cloverleaves: origin, aesthetics, and contradictions of the Slussen, Stockholm

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Álvaro Clua Uceda
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Engineering ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Compact City ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Southern District ◽  
Stockholm Archipelago ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
First Time ◽  
Historic City ◽  
Different Levels

On 11 October 1935, the inauguration of the Slussen urban cloverleaf took place in front of the excited citizens of Stockholm. It had the attributes of a pure traffic machine taken from the most advanced traffic engineering publications, and it expressed the optimistic cultural modernism that five years ago the Stockholm International Exhibition had promoted.1 This urban cloverleaf was made of translucent glass, reinforced concrete, metallic handrails, and reflective tiles and was meant to solve, in one single gesture, the complex urban link between the Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea, between Gamla Stan – the historic city centre – and Södermalm – the southern district built on top of the 35-metre-high plateau [1]. The solution made difficult urban compromises between the foothills of the Brunkeberg topography, the smooth water surfaces of the Stockholm archipelago, the architecture of the historic urban tissue, and the demands of a complex articulated mobility. Boats, goods, suburban trains, subways, trams – later buses – pedestrians, cyclists, and automobiles finally converged on this place at different levels, completing the intricacies of a threedimensional geometry which, for the first time in history, was inserted into a compact city.

A study on the impact of a compact city policy on travel behavior and access to urban services

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 795-802
Author(s):  
Anna Tatsuno ◽  
Mihoko Matsuyuki ◽  
Fumihiko Nakamura ◽  
Shinji Tanaka ◽  
Ryo Ariyoshi
Keyword(s):  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Urban Services ◽  
City Policy ◽  
The Impact

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.

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