This document discusses compact cities and urban sprawl. It defines a compact city as having high residential density, mixed land uses, and an efficient transportation system to reduce energy consumption and pollution. Benefits include lower costs, less resource use, and more social interaction. Examples given are Melbourne, Toyama, Vancouver, and Curitiba. Urban sprawl is defined as uncontrolled urban growth into rural areas, characterized by low densities and car dependency, which increases infrastructure costs. The document suggests limiting sprawl to better manage expenses and control population growth.

2. Presented to:
Sir Mehtab Ahmad
Presented by:
Muhammad Azaz 1811
Faisal Nadeem 1814
Fahad Idrees 1815
Hafiz umair 1817
Ghulam Dastgeer 1819
Ghulam Murtaza
Ahmad Latafat 1827
Department of Geography
GC university Faisalabad

3.  Origin of compact city
 Definition of compact city
 Need of compact city
 Compact city model
 General characteristics of compact city
 Positive impacts of compact cites
 Negative impacts of compact cites
 Cities following the compact city model
 Urban sprawl
 Urban sprawl characteristics

4.  The term compact city was 1st coined in 1973 by George
Dantzig and Thomas L. satty
 Two mathematician whose vision was largely driven by a
desire to see more efficient use of resources.
 Compact cities were created by the idea of sustainable
urban planning in the European countries in late 1990,s.
 The concept of compact city is based on sustainability, a
term used by a club of Rome in 1972.

5.  Urban justice
 Urban beauty
 Creativity
 Ecology
 Easy to move and access
 Compact and polycentric diversity

6.  The compact city or city of short distance is and
urban planning and urban design concept, which
promotes relatively high residential density with
mix land use.
 Based on,
I. Efficient transport system and
II. Urban layout
 Encourages walking and cycling, low energy
consumption and reduce pollution.
 Social interaction and eye on the street

9. Form of space
 High dense settlements
 Less dependence of
automobile
 Clear boundary from
surroundings
 Clear identity

10. Form of Function
 Social fairness
 Self-sufficiency of daily life
Other characteristics
 Urban infrastructure especially sewerage and water
mains.
 Multi nodal transportation
 High degree of accessibility local/regional.
 High degree of street connectivity including side
walk and bicycle lanes.
 Overlapping

11. POSITIVE IMPACTS OF
COMPACT CITES
Environment
 Less energy consumption
 Less GHG (green house gases)
consumption.
 Preservation of land for
agriculture and water
resources.
 Efficient use of energy.
 Low electricity demand.
Economy
 Low travel cost
 Less congestion
 Higher mobility and higher
productivity
 More cost effective public
services provision e.g. road
and water.
 Maximize impact of public
investment.
 More frequent exchange of
ideas which leads towards the
innovation and wealth
creation.

12.  Lack of affordable housing’
 Poor access to green spaces’
 increased crime level
 Higher death rate due to respiratory
problems

13. Melbourne (AUSTRALIA)
 31 municipalities
 4 million population
Toyama (JAPAN)
 City of Toyama
 0.4 million population
Vancouver (CANADA)
 Metro Vancouver
 2.2 million
Curitiba (BRAZIL)
 Southern Brazil
 2.3 million people
 7th largest city in Brazil
 The smiling city

14.  Urban sprawl means the spread of urban
areas into rural areas such as farmland,
forests and coastal lands that lie on the
outer edges of cities.
 Urban sprawl is the unchecked spreading
of a city or its suburbs.
 It often involves the construction of
residential and commercial buildings in
rural areas or otherwise undeveloped land
at the outskirts of a city.
Boston

15.  Low residential density
(1 house= 1 family)
 Lack of public transportation
 Unlimited outward extension of
urban development
 Leapfrog development
 All transportation dominate by
privately owned motor vehicles

16. Economic Impacts of Urban
Sprawl
 Urban Sprawl is not always checked
and systematic. This isn’t very helpful
for the economy.
 The auto dependent development
causes a lot of disadvantages including
inefficient street layouts, car
dependency
Increased Infrastructure costs
 Living in larger, more spread out
spaces generally makes public
services more expensive.
Taxes are risen (bad for the people
good for the government).

17.  Urban sprawl can cause
automobile dependency.
 Increased Pollution and
reliance on fossil fuel
 More carbon emission
adds up in the atmosphere.
 Urban sprawl may be
partly responsible for the
decline in social capital in
the United States

18. Limit the sprawl

19.  By doing this, the city can manage its expenses
easily
 can also be more efficient during keeping track
of taxes.
 There will be good population control and more
room for open space and agriculture, which
every city requires.
Otherwise,
Counter Solution
 Not every city has to limit its urban
sprawl. Natural will do it by own.

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