Table 2 Compact city dimensions. Source: Neuman [54]
From: Generating a vision for smart sustainable cities of the future: a scholarly backcasting approach
Compact city dimensions | |
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1. High residential and employment densities | |
2. Mixture of land uses 3. Fine grain of land uses (proximity of varied uses and small relative size of land parcels) | |
4. Increased social and economic interactions | |
5. Contiguous development (some parcels/structures may be vacant or abandoned or surface parking) | |
6. Contained urban development, demarcated by legible limits | |
7. Urban infrastructure, especially sewerage and water mains | |
8. Multimodal transportation | |
9. High degrees of accessibility: local/regional | |
10. High degrees of street connectivity (internal/external), including sidewalks and bicycle lanes | |
11. High degree of impervious surface coverage | |
12. Low open-space ratio | |
13. Unitary control of planning of land development, or closely coordinated control | |
14. Sufficient government fiscal capacity to finance urban facilities and infrastructure |