Compact City: Improving Urban Development In The Compact City

Abstract

With increasing population the quality of life in the city started to degrade and air pollution increased. Increased population gave rise to urban sprawl i.e. wide decentralization of the city outwards. The factors that responsible for bad shape of cities are excessive dependency on cars, the poorer public transport, lack of walking and cycling pathways and the excessive growth of built-up areas.

The main concern how the cities should be developed in future into sustainable model, the compact city hypothesis has been proposed to upgrade urban sustainability of cities.

The Compact city has become a popular urban development form and how the form of cities- e.g. their density, size, layout of streets, and building forms can contribute in sustainability. In this paper I analyse different views on compact city by analysing different cities. Compact city is characterize by high density, mixed use land, efficient public transport system and improved air quality. The cities moderately became too dense and price of land increased. With this transition of cities, the density has become a most important factor in creating sustainable city. In this paper I analyse the form of sustainable

From 13% world urban population in twentieth century to 50% in 2010 shows the urban trend. This trend of urban growth is more rapid in the developing countries. There is a need to implement sustainable development and urban development to decrease human activities on environment. To achieve sustainable urban development there are four urban forms Neo-traditional development, Urban Containment, Eco-city and Compact city. These all urban form are comprised of seven design principles a) compactness b) density c) Mixed land use d) sustainable transportation e) passive solar design f) diversity g) green