Density is a critical typology in determining sustainable urban built-form patterns. Built-formrefers to the assemblage and arrangement of the building masses in a city reflecting the spatial layout of spaces.The relationship between density and urban character is also based on at certain densities (thresholds). In a widersense, sustainable cities are a matter of density. Recent debates about t...

The compact city has become part of the policy orthodoxy in dealing with climate change and other sustainability challenges, scholars from a diverse set disciplines have informed this through empirical research. In paper, we argue that attuning research field to key perspectives concepts human geography critical urban studies can help ‘diversify’ understandings urbanism ways advance social ecol...