edited by Mike Jenks, Elizabeth Burton and Katie Williams.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
E & FN Spon,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1996.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (x, 350 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Part Part One Compact City Theory -- chapter Introduction -- chapter Centrists, Decentrists and Compromisers: Views on the Future of Urban Form -- chapter In Favour of the Compact City -- chapter Density, Efficiency and Equality in Australian Cities -- chapter The Compact City: A Successful, Desirable and Achievable Urban Form? -- chapter How Compact is Sustainable--How Sustainable is Compact? -- chapter The Search for a Sustainable Urban Form -- chapter Achieving the Compact City through Intensification: An Acceptable Option? -- part Part Two Social and Economic Issues -- chapter Introduction -- chapter Running the Gauntlet: A Compact City within a Doughnut of Decay -- chapter Economic and Social Issues -- chapter The Compact City and the Market: The Case of Residential Development -- chapter The Compact City and the Quality of Life -- chapter Not Compact Cities but Sustainable Regions -- chapter Urban Consolidation and the Family -- part Part Three Environment and Resources -- chapter Introduction -- chapter The Transport Dimension -- chapter Travel Behaviour and Local Accessibility to Services and Facilities -- chapter Sustainable Transport in a Compact City -- chapter Environmental Stress and Urban Policy -- part Part Four Measuring and Monitoring -- chapter Introduction -- chapter The Precautionary Principle and the Compact City -- chapter The Compact City and Urban Sustainability: Conflicts and Complexities -- chapter Environmental Capacity of a Historic City: The Chester Experience -- chapter City Space and Pollution Dispersion: A Modelling and Monitoring Exercise -- part Part Five Implementation -- chapter Introduction -- chapter Who Will Care for Compact Cities? -- chapter Repairing Our Much Abused Cities: The Way to Sustainable Living -- chapter Urban Footprints: Making Best Use of Urban Land and Resources--A Rural Perspective -- chapter The Compact City and the Need to Travel: The Implementation of UK Planning Policy Guidance -- chapter Sustainability in Scottish Cities: Two Case Studies of Local Management -- chapter A New Compact City Form: Concepts in Practice -- chapter Conclusion.