Towards a systemic understanding of compact city qualities

Kain, Jaan‐Henrik; Adelfio, Marco; Stenberg, Jenny; Thuvander, Liane

doi:10.1080/13574809.2021.1941825

Cited by 21 publications

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“…Other scholars remain opposed to confining the compact city concept to quantified universal measures. For example, study 7 (Kain et al 2021) expressed unequivocal support for emphasizing qualitative conceptions of the compact city over quantitative measurements. They posited that disabusing themselves of the institutionalized concept of the compact city and fixed standards allowed them to acknowledge the concept's relative character.…”

Section: Compact City Definitionmentioning

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Towards a Better Understanding of Compact Cities

Anabtawi

2023

Journal of Planning Literature

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Compact city policy applications are expanding rapidly worldwide, and so is research on the topic. This review sampled 92 publications from the last 5 years mentioning this model in their titles. A theme-centric approach was used to analyze them in order to shed light on three central questions: how do recent contributions understand and operationalize the composition of compact cities? How do they enhance existing knowledge about the model's externalities and impacts on sustainability objectives? And finally, what lessons can be learned regarding strategies of implementation and how they map onto persistent challenges and evolving policy instruments?

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Section: Compact City Definitionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Towards a Better Understanding of Compact Cities

Anabtawi

2023

Journal of Planning Literature

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“…For example, the City of Barcelona pursued its Mediterranean version of the compact city. And the City of Rotterdam tried to densify the housing stock in the urban area to provide a more attractive living environment to maintain a balance between life and jobs (Kain, Adelfio, et al, 2022). The UK government promoted land use and transport integration planning to reduce transport energy consumption (Breheny, 1995).…”

Section: Concept Of Compact Citymentioning

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Spatio-temporal Variation of Urban Bus Ridership Using Smart Card Data in a Compact City

Fang

Homma

Tomo

et al. 2023

IRSPSD International

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Buses are one of the most essential parts of the urban transportation system since they can cater to residents' daily transit demands. This study investigates the spatio-temporal patterns of urban bus traveler activities using a one-month bus trajectory dataset in Kumamoto City based on smart card data. Based on the idea of a compact city, the ordinary least squares (OLS) regression model is implemented to explore the factors that affect the bus ridership at the bus stop level in the 17 essential core districts in Kumamoto City. Then using the geographically weighted regression (GWR) model, we can get the spatial heterogeneity of the bus ridership and visualize the spatial distributions of parameter estimations. By comparing the results of the two models, we find that the two models performed similarly both in global fit and explanatory accuracy. These results can provide valuable suggestions for estimating bus demand, which may exert important implications for bus route optimization. They can also provide a basis for policy formulation by city and transportation planning and management authorities. The results of the study demonstrate the effectiveness of compact urban development in Kumamoto City from the perspective of bus ridership in each core district.

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“…The pursuit of the compact city has been widely advocated in the pursuit of a wide range of objectives from carbon neutrality, reduced infrastructure and service costs and neighbourhood revitalisation, to countryside conservation and community engagement (Kain et al, 2022; Puustinen et al, 2022). Consequently, the compact city has become a ‘leading concept’ (Hofstad, 2012), even elevated to the level of an ‘ideal’.…”

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What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning

Hickman

2023

Dialogues in Human Geography

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As fields equally concerned with the production of space and place, geographers and planners are engaged in understanding the compact city both as a concept and as a built and lived reality. In response to Haarstad et al.'s renewed agenda for research on compact urbanism, this comment piece seeks to shift their perception of planning and planners as being narrowly focused on urban form, to a more fulsome understanding of planning's contribution.

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Towards a systemic understanding of compact city qualities

Cited by 21 publications

References 61 publications

Towards a Better Understanding of Compact Cities

Towards a Better Understanding of Compact Cities

Spatio-temporal Variation of Urban Bus Ridership Using Smart Card Data in a Compact City

What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning

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