Compact city planning and development: Emerging practices and strategies for achieving the goals of sustainability

Bibri, Simon Elias; Krogstie, John; Kärrholm, Mattias

doi:10.1016/j.dibe.2020.100021

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“…As compact city development has been recognised as an important means for advancing low-carbon development of cities (e.g. Glaeser and Kahn, 2010;OECD, 2012;Bibri et al, 2020), the aim of Publication IV was to assess the economic motivation provided for households -who stand behind the decisions of housing companies when choosing to advance infill development. The potential economic benefits for households are twofold: first, the housing company (owned by individual households) can use the revenue from selling land to cover refurbishment costs (Seppälä, 2013;Kuronen et al, 2011).…”

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“…The focus was placed on infill development, which is recognised as an efficient way to decrease carbon footprint of cities (e.g. Glaeser and Kahn, 2010;OECD, 2012;Bibri et al, 2020), dense urban construction typically being listed as a target in both sustainable and smart city frameworks. Regarding the study, it is important to understand, that in the Finnish system the decision making of housing companies -also the decision to sell building permit for infill construction -is dependent on collective decision of the individual shareholders (typically households), as explained by Falkenbach and Nuuja (2007).…”

Section: Publication Iv: Impact Of Infill Development On Prices Of Exmentioning

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“…Se eral studies ha e anal sed the composition of households greenhouse gas emissions but according to the authors a areness, no other studies ha e in the recognized carbon mitigation potential that compact development holds (Wang et al, 2018;Bibri et al, 2020). The benefits for surrounding neighbourhoods needs to be understood better, because in existing neighbourhoods it is often the housing companies who make the decision about selling land for infill construction and they need to be motivated to do so.…”

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“…Urban expansion, accompanied by negative externalities of agglomeration and adverse impact on natural environment [1][2][3], generates unprecedented pressures and challenges in peri-urban landscapes [4]. In the last decades, a wide debate has been developed among stakeholders and practitioners on how planning strategies (and the related settlement morphology) may support the intrinsic transition toward urban sustainability more effectively [5,6]. In this context, earlier studies argued that mono-centric and compact cities show lower CO 2 emissions derived from household travel and residential energy consumption [7,8] and support a better quality of life [9] than dispersed and sprawled urban areas.…”

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Going toward Resilience? Town Planning, Peri-Urban Landscapes, and the Expansion of Athens, Greece

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The long-term expansion and the evolution of town planning of a contemporary European metropolis (Athens, Greece) has been analysed in this study in order to evaluate how sustainable urban growth has been taken into account in sequential strategic master plans. During the last decades, the mostly unplanned urban growth and massive housing construction have favoured a slow evolution towards a less compact and mono-centric spatial asset, typical of several Mediterranean cities. Despite efforts to guide urban growth, a series of structural challenges have remained: (i) a gap between planning and implementation; (ii) a gap between spatial planning and socio-economic planning; (iii) a relevant pressure on natural environment; (iv) a lack of participatory planning. In order to face these problems, current strategies for the city of Athens try to foster city resilience providing guidelines for more sustainable management of the built and natural landscape. In particular, the Resilience Strategy for 2030 proposes a list of actions to improve the well-being of citizens and to increase sustainability at the urban and territorial levels. A major role was given to the enhancement of the environmental quality of the metropolitan area and to the involvement of inhabitants in the various phases of decision-making.

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“…One key aspeect of this is the use of urban data as the evidence base for formulating urban policies, plans, strategies, and programs, as well as for tracking their effectiveness and modelling and simulating future urban development projects. In addition, the operation and organization of urban systems and the coordination of urban domains require not only the use of complex interdisciplinary knowledge, but also the application of sophisticated approaches and powerful computational analytics (e.g., Batty et al 2012;Bibri 2019aBibri , 2020aKrogstie 2017b, Bibri andKrogstie 2018;Bibri et al 2020a;Bettencourt 2014). In their comprehensive survey on emerging data-driven smart cities, Nikitin et al (2016) point out that modern cities employ the latest technologies in city management to support sustainable development given rapid urban growth, increasing urban domains, and more complex infrastructure.…”

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The emerging data–driven Smart City and its innovative applied solutions for sustainability: the cases of London and Barcelona

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The big data revolution is heralding an era where instrumentation, datafication, and computation are increasingly pervading the very fabric of cities. Big data technologies have become essential to the functioning of cities. Consequently, urban processes and practices are becoming highly responsive to a form of data-driven urbanism that is the key mode of production for smart cities. Such form is increasingly being directed towards tackling the challenges of sustainability in the light of the escalating urbanization trend. This paper investigates how the emerging data-driven smart city is being practiced and justified in terms of the development and implementation of its innovative applied solutions for sustainability. To illuminate this new urban phenomenon, a descriptive case study is adopted as a qualitative research methodology to examine and compare London and Barcelona as the leading data-driven smart cities in Europe. This study shows that these cities have a high level of the development of applied data-driven technologies, but they slightly differ in the level of the implementation of such technologies in different city systems and domains with respect to sustainability areas. They also moderately differ in the degree of their readiness as to the availability and development level of the competences and infrastructure needed to generate, transmit, process, and analyze large masses of data to extract useful knowledge for enhanced decision making and deep insights pertaining to urban operational functioning, management, and planning in relation to sustainability. London takes the lead as regards the ICT infrastructure and data sources, whereas Barcelona has the best practices in the dataoriented competences, notably horizontal information platforms, operations centers, dashboards, training programs and educational institutes, innovation labs, research centers, and strategic planning offices. This research enhances the scholarly community's current understanding of the new phenomenon of the data-driven city with respect to the untapped synergic potential of the integration of smart urbanism and sustainable urbanism for advancing sustainability in the light of the emerging paradigm of big data computing. No previous work has, to the best of our knowledge, explored and highlighted the link between the data-driven smart solutions and the sustainable development strategies in the context of data-driven

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Compact city planning and development: Emerging practices and strategies for achieving the goals of sustainability

Cited by 347 publications

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Pleasure is the profit - The adoption of solar PV systems by households in Finland

Going toward Resilience? Town Planning, Peri-Urban Landscapes, and the Expansion of Athens, Greece

The emerging data–driven Smart City and its innovative applied solutions for sustainability: the cases of London and Barcelona

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