Compact City Reset: Towards Alternatives to Market-driven Density

Grodach, Carl; Limb, Mark

doi:10.1080/08111146.2020.1827543

Cited by 15 publications

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“…Research by Jenks et al queried the highly complex nature of urban consolidation and intensification, arguing that the effects of intensification processes on satisfaction hinge on the varying characteristics of the areas (e.g., socioeconomic status) and differences among respondents, and the degree of residents’ involvement in planning processes among other contextual variables (Jenks, Williams and Burton 2019). The study identified no correlation between density and satisfaction, although qualitative data the authors had collected suggests that “residents were more dissatisfied in the areas where density had increased the most” (27).…”

Section: How Sustainable Are Compact Cities?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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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: How Sustainable Are Compact Cities?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, it acknowledges the existence of several driving forces and indirect processes that might promote or limit compact cities, including the market economy, urbanization trends and population growth patterns, energy availability and pricing (ex. (Adelfio et al 2018;Grodach and Limb 2020;Limb et al 2020)).…”

Section: Compact Cities In Practicementioning

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Towards a Better Understanding of Compact Cities

Anabtawi

2023

Journal of Planning Literature

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“…This makes it one of the few strategies that move from strategic overview to state-supported implementation. However, there is no evidence that infill rates are increasing, especially in the middle suburbs of Brisbane, Australia's lowest-density city (Grodach & Limb, 2020).…”

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The Greyfield Challenge to Australian Governments

Newton

Newman

Glackin

et al. 2021

Greening the Greyfields

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Between 2000 and 2020, Australia’s population grew almost 24% to 25 million. Most of this growth occurred in Australia’s major cities, acutely exacerbating sprawl, which has been a planning challenge since the mid- to late twentieth century. The urban-policy response has been toward more compact cities via ‘infill’—redevelopment within existing urban boundaries. This chapter distinguishes between former industrial ‘brownfield’ infill and the more challenging ‘greyfield’ infill. Greyfields comprise ageing, under-capitalised, low-density suburbia. Most metropolitan planning strategies enable small-scale, ad hoc greyfield redevelopment that tends to erase suburban qualities while only slightly increasing density. As a result, infill targets are not being met. But there is another way, outlined here as ‘greyfield precinct regeneration’: larger-scale integrated redevelopment facilitated through land assembly and supportive state and municipal planning policy.

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The Global Greyfields Transition: Why Urban Redevelopment in Low-Density, Car-Based Middle Suburbs Needs a New Model

Newton¹,

Newman²,

Glackin³

et al. 2021

Greening the Greyfields

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This chapter provides the framework and rationale for Greening the Greyfields and its two new models for greyfield precinct regeneration (GPR): place-activated and transit-activated GPR. They provide a basis for regenerative urban redevelopment in the middle-ring greyfield suburbs of fast-growing, low-density cities. Place-activated GPR advances a new development model for the ‘missing middle’ in cities: new medium-density housing at precinct scale. Transit-activated GPR extends new sustainable modes of mobility into car-dependent suburbs. Both processes are required for retrofitting suburbia to fix the shortcomings of mid- to late-twentieth-century urban planning and development.

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Compact City Reset: Towards Alternatives to Market-driven Density

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

Towards a Better Understanding of Compact Cities

Towards a Better Understanding of Compact Cities

The Greyfield Challenge to Australian Governments

The Global Greyfields Transition: Why Urban Redevelopment in Low-Density, Car-Based Middle Suburbs Needs a New Model

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