In contrast to the ongoing worldwide uncontrolled expansion of urban development resulting
in sprawled cities, compact cities have been argued by planners and researchers to be the …

Sprawl not only has a direct negative impact on the health of urban society and ecology but
may also damage the financial foundation of urban development. Using city-level panel data …

The objective of the study is to assess the level and regional diversity of low-carbon
investments and in renewable energy sources in urban public transport in Poland co-funded …

We envisage the waste management strategy of the local bodies as one of sharing different
responsibilities with households along different stages of the process viz., collection …

Faced with rapid and uncontrolled urbanization, cities in the Global South have relied on
densification strategies to contend with sprawl, social polarization, and environmental risks …

This study examines the economic, social and environmental impacts of various urban
development factors including urban expansion, population and vehicle density, housing …

Densification has become a general battlecry of “post-suburban policies”. Yet the reality of
densification processes does not necessarily correspond to the objectives of those policies …

This article examines the density effect and the optimum density of the urban population
using panel data from China's 284 cities from 2006 to 2010. Considering the endogeneity …

The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between the type of urban spatial
structure, population density and the selected types of capital and current municipal …

This paper explores the roles of agglomeration economies and human capital externalities
in accounting for productivity variations across sub-national areas in 16 Latin American and …