Retracting suburbia: Smart growth and the future of housing

Danielsen, Karen A.; Lang, Robert E.; Fulton, William

doi:10.1080/10511482.1999.9521341

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“…The growing concerns over environmental and sustainability issues that emerged in the 1980s, however, affected both styles: therefore, planners turned to mixed land use, connected street patterns and pedestrian-friendly communities (Grant, 2009), and to developments that favoured amenity-rich and sustainable urban lifestyles (Danielsen et al, 1999), as well as traditional neighbourhood designs (Duany et al, 2000). Armed with these principles, planners pushed through such strategies and ideas as smart growth, liveable communities and new urbanism, gradually introducing them into suburban planning throughout the West.…”

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“…Danielsen et al, 1999). While some residents saw their independence from the authorities as resulting in lower infrastructure-related expenses (i.e.…”

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“…According to Charles H. Bennett's reinterpretation of Maxwell's Demon, the destruction of information is an irreversible process, so the destruction of information is consistent with the second law of thermodynamics [4]. And generate information, it is for the system to introduce negative (thermodynamic) entropy process [5]. So the symbol of information entropy and thermodynamic entropy should be the opposite.…”

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Research on Smart Growth of Sustainable Cities Based on Information Entropy and Super-Efficiency DEA Model

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Zhang²,

Li³

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Since the "smart growth" was put forward in the late 90s, it has become an accepted design idea and concept in the field of urban design in the world, and has been deeply studied and applied. In order to better promote "smart grown", we set up an evaluation system, which consists of eleven indicators. In this paper, Oxford City and Fengzhen City are used as the objects of the study. Then smart growth evaluation model is established. The weight of the index is calculated by the entropy method. We use the model to evaluate the development plans of the two cities, from which to calculate the contribution of the indicators on the level of smart growth. Finally, we use the super-efficient data envelopment analysis model (DEA) to rank the importance of the indicators to the smart growth. The results show that the level of smart growth in Oxford is higher than that in Fengzhen. And "Multifunctional Building Density in Central City", "The Density of Public Area in Central City" two indicators account for more than 36% weight. The contribution of the two indicators is also located in the top two indicators. Two cities focus on the direction of smart growth is also different. In summary, the differences between China and Western countries in urban planning are mainly focused on housing and public resources.

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“…lowdensity land-consuming settlement development, building new housing areas in the "green fields" rather than infilling and extension of existing settlements, cardependence of the new housing areas etc. As the alternative to the sprawl, the smart growth [2] and compact city concepts [3] have been developed in the field literature expressing the normative view that the suburban population growth could take more sustainable and rational forms than the uncontrolled sprawl around the cities.…”

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Suburbanisation and commuting modes in the Tallinn metropolitan area

Leetmaa¹,

Metspalu²,

Tammaru³

2006

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 93

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Suburbanisation is one of the most important features of spatial population change in Estonia. The aim of this article is to analyse the process of suburbanisation and related changes in commuting modes compared to the late Soviet period in the Tallinn metropolitan area. We use three datasets in our study: individual level 2000 census data, municipal planning documents and a sample survey. The results of the study indicate that most of the people who moved from Tallinn to its suburban areas in the 1990s moved to pre-transition period housing stock. However, the new housing construction is playing an increasingly important role in the suburbanisation process and in the course of time the process has taken the form of uncontrolled urban sprawl lead by the detailed rather than the master plans, and by the interests of real estate development companies. Besides, the sprawl of housing to the former natural and agricultural landscapes has considerably increased the commuters car-dependence compared to the late Soviet period. While public transport was the dominant commuting mode in the Soviet Estonia, today car-based commuting clearly dominates.

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Retracting suburbia: Smart growth and the future of housing

Cited by 109 publications

References 26 publications

Planning post-summurbia: From spontaneous pragmatism to collaborative planning?

Planning post-summurbia: From spontaneous pragmatism to collaborative planning?

Research on Smart Growth of Sustainable Cities Based on Information Entropy and Super-Efficiency DEA Model

Suburbanisation and commuting modes in the Tallinn metropolitan area

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