Under the radar? ‘Soft’ residential densification in England, 2001–2011
| Autor: | John Henneberry, Jean-Marie Halleux, Peter Bibby |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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05 social sciences
Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Management Monitoring Policy and Law law.invention Urban Studies Geography Consolidation (business) law Scale (social sciences) Architecture Land use land-use change and forestry Formal development Economic geography Radar Empirical evidence 050703 geography Nature and Landscape Conservation |
| Zdroj: | Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 47:102-118 |
| ISSN: | 2399-8091 2399-8083 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2399808318772842 |
| Popis: | Urban compaction policies have been widely adopted in developed countries in pursuit of more sustainable cities. Compactness is achieved through a process of ‘densification’, of developing and using land and buildings more intensively. However, empirical evidence on the processes and outcomes of urban densification is lacking. The paper addresses this lacuna. It considers densification in England, a country that has long experience of applying policies of urban containment and consolidation; and one where new data sources allow the analysis of recent land use change at a level of detail not hitherto possible. In England between 2001 and 2011, the bulk of additional dwellings were accommodated within urban areas, increasing their density. Yet, there were wide inter- and intra-regional variations in the pattern of densification: for example, in the contributions of large scale, formal development and of small scale, informal, gradual change – of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ densification – to the process. The significant differences in local experiences of densification that result raise major issues for policy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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