Dealing with Sustainability Trade-Offs of the Compact City in Peri-Urban Planning Across European City Regions

Westerink, Judith; Haase, Dagmar; Bauer, Annette; Ravetz, Joe; Jarrige, Françoise; Aalbers, C.B.E.M.

doi:10.1080/09654313.2012.722927

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“…To get the compact city work as it is intended -facilitating to increase resource efficiency and reduce consumption -it is important to secure public spaces, a dense public transport system and a mixed land use on the local scale. In this sense the compact city idea is not only translated into proximity but rather reflected in accessibility as well as mix of uses, which allows a more broad interpretation of the concept (Westerink et al, 2013). It even gets more difficult when the definition should be empirically applicable, as very different urban forms can appear as compact cities.…”

Section: Defining Resource Efficiency and The Compact Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It can be questioned if it is possible to densify without destroying valuable nature or cultural heritage (Naess, 1997). Strategies that are often applied to deal with those "sustainability trade-offs" include urban renewal, limitations on car use, mixed land-use and life cycle residential strategies (Westerink et al, 2013). Also, there are some critiques of the idea that compact urban form really makes a difference.…”

Section: Trade-offs and Rebound Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are a number of potential adverse effects of compact cities in environmental, social as well as economic terms (OECD, 2011;Westerink et al, 2013). These tradeoffs regarding compact city development and resource use are not fully explored and subject to concrete planning measures because of their local complexity.…”

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confidence: 99%

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

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2016

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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.

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

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2016

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“…It is also argued that compact form can support public transport services better than dispersed form since population densities in the former case are high enough to provide efficiency in different modes of public transportation (K. Williams, 2005). Alternatively, other studies question the sustainability of compact form (Breheny, 2001;Westerink et al, 2013) and suggesting that decentralised or polycentric urban development solutions would be more efficient in terms of transport patterns. One reason for this enhanced efficiency cited in research is that multi-centred cities can provide significant transport benefits by locating residences close to employment centres (Simmonds & Coombe, 2013;K.…”

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Scenario Analysis of Alternative Land Development Patterns for the Leipzig-Halle Region: Implications for Transport-Land-Use Sustainability

Ustaoglu

Williams

Petrov

2017

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The objective of this paper is to present alternative land development scenarios for the sustainability impact assessment of transport-land-use relationship in the Leipzig-Halle Region. Using the MOLAND Model that was applied to a declining urban region for the first time, two different land-use scenarios were developed representing a baseline dispersed development and an alternative compact development case. The assessment of land-use-transport relationships is carried out incorporating the use of social, economic and environmental indicators. The impacts and indicators were specified and evaluated subject to a quantitative and qualitative assessment. The findings imply that a compact development scenario is preferable over dispersed development scenario in terms of potential quantitative data on the benefits to the environment and society. In contrast, dispersed development in the baseline case indicates the costs of such development exceed the benefits. The results of this type of scenario analysis provide an objective evidence basis in policy evaluation and decisions regarding future urban developments. This research was developed from several scenarios created with the key stakeholders of the Leipzig-Halle Region from research originally conducted as part of the PLUREL Project in 2012 and updated in 2016. It aims at contributing to literature by providing a sustainability assessment framework for rapid rail infrastructure provision that incorporates socio-economic and environmental impact assessment of alternative future urban form scenarios into the analysis. In addition, due to MOLAND features, it provides the opportunity for the sustainability impact assessment of different forms of urban development linked with transport infrastructure provision in the Region and compare the findings with other case study areas in Europe and internationally.

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“…The concept of the sustainable city itself is broad and covers "compact cities" (Westerink et al, 2013;Howley, 2009), nature's "cities" (Davidson and Arman, 2014), as well as "cosmopolitan cities" (Fainstein, 2011), "good cities" (Gleeson 2012), eco cities (Chang and Sheppard 2013), and urban improvement ideas include a range of "green cities" concepts, development of new green cities and renovation of existing cities (Beatley, 2011).…”

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Factors Influencing Cities Pedestrian Street Functionality and Sustainable Land Use

Maliene

Diciunaite-Rauktiene

2015

Proceedings of the 7th International Scientific Conference Rural Development 2015

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The public space encourages social exchange, develops and maintains social groups and allows the exchange of public messages. When the public space and public life are not supported in the community, there is no one to communicate with, people become isolated, less inclined to help or support each other. Public space is the scene of public life that promotes a sense of community, sense of place, human connection and communication as well as dependence sensation. High-quality and well-managed public space is a benefit to the city's economy, creating shelter from the car-centred life and move to a more natural environment as well as significant urban land use. Therefore, in recent times, in order to establish the right conditions in cities for different human needs, great attention is paid not only to the development of physical infrastructure, but also to other aspects that will help to create sustainable balance of social, economic and environmental aspects. One of the quality of life in the city return ways is the release of urban spaces for pedestrians. Until these days the pedestrian zones are extended little by little, resulting in disposal of the car parking-lots and improved cycling and other transport facilities. Sustainable use of urban pedestrian zones would provide economic, social, environmental and cultural benefits only if these aspects are combined with each other. The aim of the article is to distinguish and critically analyse (on the basis of a literature review) factors influencing the functionality and sustainable development of pedestrian streets. Article object -cities pedestrian street. The study was conducted using scientific publishing content analysis and synthesis techniques. This article is an overview.

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Dealing with Sustainability Trade-Offs of the Compact City in Peri-Urban Planning Across European City Regions

Cited by 175 publications

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

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

Scenario Analysis of Alternative Land Development Patterns for the Leipzig-Halle Region: Implications for Transport-Land-Use Sustainability

Factors Influencing Cities Pedestrian Street Functionality and Sustainable Land Use

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