Compact city, the Glossary
The compact city or city of short distances is an urban planning and urban design concept, which promotes relatively high residential density with mixed land uses.[1]
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62 relations: Amsterdam, Brownfield land, Built Environment (journal), Car dependency, Ceteris paribus, Circles of Sustainability, Climate change mitigation, Community Preservation Act, Dacha, Delft, Eastern Bloc, European Commission, European Parliament, Exurb, Freiburg im Breisgau, Fused grid, Garden city movement, George Dantzig, Green paper, Groene Hart, Healthy city, Inner city, Jane Jacobs, Krasnodar, Land consumption, Land value tax, Mixed-use development, Modern architecture, New Urbanism, Novosibirsk, Pedestrian zone, Peter Newman (environmental scientist), Planned community, Planning Policy Guidance Notes, Portland, Oregon, Principles of intelligent urbanism, Randstad, Richard Rogers, Russia, Slovakia, Slow architecture, Smart city, Smart growth, Steffen Lehmann, Suburb, Sustainability (journal), The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Thomas L. Saaty, Towards an Urban Renaissance, Traditional Neighborhood Development, ... Expand index (12 more) »
Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
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Brownfield land
Brownfield is previously-developed land that has been abandoned or underutilized, and which may carry pollution, or a risk of pollution, from industrial use.
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Built Environment (journal)
Built Environment is a peer-reviewed academic journal focused on urban planning and related fields.
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Car dependency
Car dependency refers to a phenomenon in urban planning wherein existing and planned infrastructure prioritizes the use of automobiles over other modes of transportation, such as public transit, bicycles, and walking.
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Ceteris paribus
Ceteris paribus (also spelled caeteris paribus) (Classical) is a Latin phrase, meaning "other things equal"; some other English translations of the phrase are "all other things being equal", "other things held constant", "all else unchanged", and "all else being equal".
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Circles of Sustainability
Circles of Sustainability is a method for understanding and assessing sustainability, and for project management directed towards socially sustainable outcomes.
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Climate change mitigation
Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that cause climate change.
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The Community Preservation Act (CPA) is a Massachusetts state law (M.G.L. Chapter 44B) passed in 2000.
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Dacha
A dacha (Belarusian, Ukrainian and a) is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of post-Soviet countries, including Russia.
Delft
Delft is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.
Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
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European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).
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European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.
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Exurb
An exurb (or alternately: exurban area) is an area outside the typically denser inner suburban area, at the edge of a metropolitan area, which has some economic and commuting connection to the metro area, low housing density, and growth.
Freiburg im Breisgau
Freiburg im Breisgau (Alemannic: Friburg im Brisgau; Fribourg-en-Brisgau; Freecastle in the Breisgau; mostly called simply Freiburg) is the fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe.
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Fused grid
The fused grid is a street network pattern first proposed in 2002 and subsequently applied in Calgary, Alberta (2006) and Stratford, Ontario (2004).
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Garden city movement
The garden city movement was a 20th century urban planning movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with greenbelts.
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George Dantzig
George Bernard Dantzig (November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made contributions to industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics.
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Green paper
In the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth countries, Hong Kong, the United States and the European Union, a green paper is a tentative government report and consultation document of policy proposals for debate and discussion.
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Groene Hart
The Groene Hart (English: Green Heart) is a relatively thinly populated area of the Netherlands covering much of the middle portion of the Randstad megalopolis.
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Healthy city
Healthy city is a term used in public health and urban design to stress the impact of policy on human health.
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Inner city
The term inner city has been used, especially in the United States, as a euphemism for majority-minority lower-income residential districts that often refer to rundown neighborhoods, in a downtown or city centre area.
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Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs (née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics.
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Krasnodar
Krasnodar is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai, Russia.
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Land consumption
Land consumption as part of human resource consumption is the conversion of land with healthy soil and intact habitats into areas for industrial agriculture, traffic (road building) and especially urban human settlements.
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Land value tax
A land value tax (LVT) is a levy on the value of land without regard to buildings, personal property and other improvements upon it.
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Mixed-use development
Mixed use is a type of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning classification that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions are to some degree physically and functionally integrated, and that provides pedestrian connections. Compact city and Mixed-use development are new Urbanism.
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Modern architecture
Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.
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New Urbanism
New Urbanism is an urban design movement that promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types.
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Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia.
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Pedestrian zone
Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, as pedestrian precincts in British English, and as pedestrian malls in the United States and Australia) are areas of a city or town restricted to use by people on foot or human-powered transport such as bicycles, with non-emergency motor traffic not allowed.
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Peter Newman (environmental scientist)
Peter William Geoffrey Newman (born 1945) is an environmental scientist, author and educator based in Perth, Western Australia.
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A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land.
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Planning Policy Guidance Notes
In the United Kingdom, Planning Policy Guidance Notes (PPG) were statements of the Government's national policy and principles towards certain aspects of the town planning framework.
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Portland, Oregon
Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.
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Principles of intelligent urbanism
Principles of Intelligent Urbanism (PIU) is a theory of urban planning composed of a set of ten axioms intended to guide the formulation of city plans and urban designs. Compact city and Principles of intelligent urbanism are new Urbanism and urban planning.
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Randstad
The Randstad ("Rim City" or "Edge City") is a roughly crescent- or arc-shaped conurbation in the Netherlands, that houses almost half the country's population.
Richard Rogers
Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, (23 July 1933 – 18 December 2021) was a British-Italian architect noted for his modernist and constructivist designs in high-tech architecture.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Slovakia
Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
Slow architecture
Slow architecture is a term believed to have grown from the slow food movement of the mid-1980s.
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Smart city
A smart city is a technologically advanced urban area that uses different types of electronic methods and sensors to collect specific data.
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Smart growth
Smart growth is an urban planning and transportation theory that concentrates growth in compact walkable urban centers to avoid sprawl. Compact city and Smart growth are new Urbanism.
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Steffen Lehmann
Steffen Lehmann (born 19 June 1963 in Stuttgart) is a German-born architect and urban designer.
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Suburb
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city. Compact city and suburb are urban planning.
Sustainability (journal)
Sustainability is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal published by MDPI.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a 1961 book by writer and activist Jane Jacobs.
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Thomas L. Saaty
Thomas L. Saaty (July 18, 1926 – August 14, 2017) was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.
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Towards an Urban Renaissance
Towards an Urban Renaissance was report by the United Kingdom's Urban Task Force, published by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions on 29 June 1999.
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Traditional Neighborhood Development
Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) refers to the development of a complete neighborhood or town using traditional town planning principles.
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Transit-oriented development
In urban planning, transit-oriented development (TOD) is a type of urban development that maximizes the amount of residential, business and leisure space within walking distance of public transport.
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Trenčín
Trenčín (also known by other alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia of the central Váh River valley near the Czech border, around from Bratislava.
Urban density
Urban density is a term used in urban planning and urban design to refer to the number of people inhabiting a given urbanized area.
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Urban design
Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes.
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Urban planning
Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks, and their accessibility.
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Urban renewal
Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities.
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Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses, dense multi family apartments, office buildings and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a more or less densely populated city".
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Utrecht
Utrecht (Utrecht dialect) is the fourth-largest city of the Netherlands, as well as the capital and the most populous city of the province of Utrecht.
Ville Radieuse
Ville radieuse was an unrealised urban design project designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1930.
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Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl (Ярославль) is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow.
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Zvolen
Zvolen (Zólyom; Altsohl) is a city in central Slovakia, situated on the confluence of Hron and Slatina rivers.
15-minute city
The 15-minute city (FMC or 15mC) is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk, bike ride, or public transit ride from any point in the city. Compact city and 15-minute city are new Urbanism.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_city
Also known as City of short distances, The Compact City.
, Transit-oriented development, Trenčín, Urban density, Urban design, Urban planning, Urban renewal, Urban sprawl, Utrecht, Ville Radieuse, Yaroslavl, Zvolen, 15-minute city.