aham aham

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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for Common Questions. Web. 20 Jan. 2011.
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region.org/index.cfm/go/by.web/id=277>.
 3. "Urban Sprawl: the Big Picture." NASA Science. Web.
25 Jan. 2011. <http://science.nasa.gov/science-
news/science-at-nasa/2002/11oct_sprawl/>.
 4. Sprawl Guide: Problems with Sprawl (Environmental
Impacts)." Planning Commissioners Journal. Web. 26
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