Compact city in dispersion

Compact City Replaces Sprawl

The compact, geometrically integrated city can and should replace suburban sprawl as the dominant development pattern in the future. This approach to urban planning and design is well established among proponents of the New Urbanist and Smart Growth movements. However, the more radical scenario I propose in this paper is that the compact city should also replace the high-rise, ultra-high-densit...

The Compact City Fallacy

The world has been urbanizing for centuries (United Nations 2001; United Nations Centre for Human Settlements [1996] 2000). While some scholars note a decline in the significance of space and distance as the result of telecommunications advancements and globalization (Cairncross 2001), other thinkers point to the continuing, if not increasing, importance of proximity and multiple benefits of ur...

Retrofitting suburbia: Is the compact city feasible?

comparison between mpdata and high order upwind compact finite difference methods in air pollutants dispersion modeling

in this paper high order multidimensional positive definite advection transport algorithm (mpdata) and compact finite difference methods are applied to one (1-d) and two-dimensional (2-d) advection equation. mpdata methods are designed based on upwind scheme using anti-diffusive velocity that compensates diffusivity of upwind method. in high order compact method one implicit relation between a ...

Identify and investigate the drivers to use the compact city (Case study: Ahvaz city)

The compact city as a tool to limit energy consumption and urban sprawl is a key element in the sustainable city debate. The purpose of this research is Identify and investigate the drivers to use the compact city in Ahvaz city. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of descriptive-analytical method. The statistical population includes 10 city managers and researchers ...