Contents:
part Introduction -- chapter 1 Compact urban form, density and sustainability: correlations and holistic approaches / JOO HWA PHILIP BAY AND STEFFEN LEHMANN -- part Part I Framing the question: unravelling the link between density, sustainability and compact cities -- chapter 2 Urban lifelines to achieve climate resiliency / DONALD WATSON -- chapter 3 Planning ethics and urban density: overcoming fear in Anglo-Saxon cities / PETER NEWMAN -- chapter 4 Density, sprawl and sustainable urban development: perspectives from the Asian and Pacific region / PAUL JONES -- chapter 5 The challenge of transforming a low-density city into a compact city: the case of the City of Perth, Australia / STEFFEN LEHMANN -- chapter 6 Compact city and sustainable high-density living: social-environmental holistic approach / JOO HWA PHILIP BAY -- part Part II Quality of living and social dimensions relating to environmental sustainability -- chapter 7 The sustainable city: a good and secure quality of life? / MIKE JENKS -- chapter 8 Density, compact urban form and sustainability in the Netherlands / JEROEN MENSINK AND FRANK VAN DER HOEVEN -- chapter 9 Security and density: hyper-surveillance, public safety and social sustainability EMIL JONESCU -- chapter 10 Dense and ageing: social sustainability of public places amidst high-density development KENG HUA CHONG, KIEN TO AND MICHAEL M.J. FISCHER -- chapter 11 Creating green space in the compact city: a Swedish perspective on a global issue / WALKER WELLS -- part Part III Compact resource management, greening and integration with urban form -- chapter 12 Green Plot Ratio and MUtopia: the integration of green infrastructure into an ecological model for cities / BOON LAY ONG, OLE FRYD, DOMINIQUE HES, TUAN DUC NGO AND LU AYE -- chapter 13 Decentralized water and energy infrastructure: integration into compact urban form / MARTIN ANDA -- chapter 14 The shape of resilience: a framework for integrating regenerative production of localised food and energy within an urban community / STEVE HERSELMAN AND JOO HWA PHILIP BAY -- chapter 15 Food production and density: the design of a high-rise housing development in Singapore / JOO HWA PHILIP BAY, OWEN LIAM CHOO WEE AND SUNJYOT SINGH -- part Part IV Design systems and structural approaches impacting density and sustainability -- chapter 16 Hong Kong: appearing dense, yet growing smarter TOM VEREBES -- chapter 17 Relationship between density, urban form and environmental performance / CHYE KIANG HENG, LAI CHOO MALONE-LEE AND JI ZHANG -- chapter 18 Housing innovation for compact, resilient cities / CAITLIN MCGEE -- chapter 19 To follow the Australian dream or to embrace urban denscation: a prolonged debate? / SHAHED KHAN -- part Part V Policies, guidelines, methods and decision making relating to development for density and sustainability -- chapter 20 Imagining optimum, not hyper, density: lessons learnt from high-density cases and a proposed framework for optimal-quality density / STEFFEN LEHMANN -- chapter 21 Growing Sydney: advocacy for urban density / CHRIS JOHNSON -- chapter 22 Re-introducing density in shrinking cities: lessons from Japanese cities / TADASHI MATSUMOTO -- chapter 23 Density and sustainability: strange bedfellows? / CHRISTOPHER T. BOYKO.