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

Fertner, Christian; Große, Juliane

doi:10.1515/esrp-2016-0004

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“…According to Fertner and Groth (2016), the process of making urban settlements more efficient should consider, first of all, the efficiency of the energy system, the use of electricity from renewable sources. On the other hand, Ciegis and Zaleviciene (2012) state that the development of sustainable cities can be achieved by harmonizing economic growth, social progress by limiting negative effects on the environment.…”

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Efficiency of urban development: gaps in continental profile

Maricuț,

Grădinaru,

Marin

et al. 2023

Management &Amp; Marketing

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International authorities such as the European Commission and the United Nations pay special attention to sustainable urban development, for this purpose, strategies such as the European Green Deal or the Sustainable Development Strategy 2030 agenda, SDG 11 Sustainable cities and communities are developed. Urban development represents a fundamental direction in the transition process towards the green economy, a sustainable economic model. The paper aims to identify the degree of efficiency of economic development in the context of sustainable development for 41 cities in Romania, Germany, Japan, United States of America and Australia. To achieve this objective, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method is used, with the aim of identifying the gaps regarding the sustainability of the analyzed cities. Data Envelopment Analysis allows the evaluation of the efficiency of urban settlements in the sample based on representative variables, selected as input. So, the research is ready to give answer to question like “What are the efficient cities in terms of sustainability?” and “What are the relationships between the cities included in the sample?”. The main results showed that there are cities that have a model of sustainable economic development, but certain cities present significant gaps from the point of view of efficient sustainable economic development. In addition, port cities seem to develop an association relationship, with inefficient port cities being associated with efficient port cities.

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Efficiency of urban development: gaps in continental profile

Maricuț,

Grădinaru,

Marin

et al. 2023

Management &Amp; Marketing

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“…The section is not therefore intended either as a description or as an exhaustive state-of-the-art regarding both concepts, since they have been already widely explained and examined in the literaturee.g. for the compact city: Jenks, Burton, and Williams 1996;Churchman 1999;Dieleman and Wegener 2004;Newman and Kenworthy 2006;Boyko and Cooper 2011;Westerink et al 2013;Fertner and Große 2016;Adelfio et al 2018;Adelfio, Hamiduddin, and Miedema 2021;Kain et al 2020;Kain et al 2021;e.g. for New Urbanism: CNU 2000;Beauregard 2002;Grant 2003;Grant and Bohdanow 2008;Hirt 2009;Moore 2013).…”

Section: The Compact City and New Urbanism As Overgeneralized Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Translating ‘New Compactism’, circulation of knowledge and local mutations: Copenhagen’s Sydhavn as a case study

Adelfio

Aguiar

Fertner

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International Planning Studies

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The international circulation of urban design concepts often leads to their characterization as transferable ideals defined by a set of universalized 'best practices' that are simply implemented in new localities, as is typical of top-down approaches to planning. Recently, the compact city and New Urbanism have become trendy concepts informing the development of urban projects across geographies. This research draws on ANT sensitivities and policy mobilities studies to examine the regeneration of Copenhagen's Southern Harbour (Sydhavn) wherein the compact city and New Urbanism ideals, together with a declared inspiration from Dutch architecture, were originally incorporated in the masterplan. Through the analysis of documents and semi-structured interviews, the paper illustrates how these idealsmerged as 'New Compactism'were mobilized and re-intepreted by local actors in Sydhavn. It thus adds to our understanding of how the circulation of such ideals is not a matter of implementation, but a complex social process of translation that entails struggle and transformation.

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“…Urban growth, specifically poorly planned densification policies, can be problematic as the expansion of the built environment not only increases but also spatially concentrates resource demands, from construction materials, to energy and water; the latter is a resource that is already scarce in Mexico City [63,73,74]. Urban growth and urban densification can thus lead to a greater pressure on public services such as those related to management and treatment of waste and sewage water, in addition to other challenges, from the loss of green spaces to the reduction of mobility, which is directly linked to air quality and public health [75][76][77][78]. Assessing the process and dimension of urban expansion and its potential implications can indeed enable a better understanding of the relationships, co-benefits and trade-offs between densification strategies, land uses, urban form, urban ecology, and health.…”

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Real Estate Industry as an Urban Growth Machine: A Review of the Political Economy and Political Ecology of Urban Space Production in Mexico City

Ramos¹

2019

Sustainability

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Cities concentrate the means of production, wealth, political power, infrastructure, educational institutions, and a relevant share of our cultural heritage. As such, they are seen as places of opportunities. Contemporary urbanization, however, being central to the accumulation of capital, has also escalated environmental problems that are usually suffered by the urban poor due to an uneven production of urban space. Mexico City is not an exception. It has mainly expanded through a lively auto-construction process and, more recently, under the incentive of a speculative urban development. The first trend reinforces the informal housing sector, in certain cases, involving significant environmental implications such as the degradation of land of ecological value. The second trend responds to capital accumulation dynamics, promoting urban renewal in central areas or where a greater potential rent-gap exists, underpinning the uneven production of urban space, and usually withholding most of its related socioenvironmental impacts. This paper focusses on this second process. It assesses the so-called "urban growth machine" in taction, its socioecological impacts, and related contestation processes. With that in mind and after a general introduction and a brief description of urban development in Mexico, the real estate industry in Mexico City is evaluated in terms of the potential ecological implications of the building stock expansion from 2012 to 2018. A spatial distribution analysis of contestation processes, correlated to such urban expansion, is presented as well. The case study confirms what has been learned in other locations of the Global South, where a contradictory and uneven process of urban development has also been experienced under the stimulus of capital speculation. The paper, however, offers a novel approach by bringing together urban political economy, industrial ecology and urban political ecology analytical tools. Such hybridization, it is argued, enables a more comprehensive understanding of contemporary urbanization and its socioenvironmental impacts, which in turn is central to any effort for urban transformation.

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

Cited by 20 publications

References 27 publications

Efficiency of urban development: gaps in continental profile

Efficiency of urban development: gaps in continental profile

Translating ‘New Compactism’, circulation of knowledge and local mutations: Copenhagen’s Sydhavn as a case study

Real Estate Industry as an Urban Growth Machine: A Review of the Political Economy and Political Ecology of Urban Space Production in Mexico City

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