High-density Cities and Compact Development:Sino-Foreign Comparisons and Implications
The compact development emerging in Western contexts of lower density and urban sprawl has presented greater transportation and public health advantages than non-compact development.At the same time,China's special conditions have induced a factual trend of high-density compactness.Compared to the strengths of motorized or public transit,the negative impacts on healthy cities and public welfare have raised lasting concerns about compact development in high-density cities.Unlike the West,Chinese cities exhibit relatively high-density landscapes,land-use-centered compact strategies,and economic-oriented high-density tendencies.Compact development,along with increasing urban density,may lead to over-concentrated problems in normally high-density environments.It is necessary to implement differentiated compact policies between urban and rural regions,to develop multi-objective compactness for high-density cities,and to become more inclusive about diverse individual demands when supplying spatial planning products.
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