Designing High-Density Cities: For Social and Environmental Sustainability

摘要

The title of the book clearly locates its concerns within the context of ongoing debates regarding the relationship of high-density cities and urban living to the wider goals of city sustainability. The book examines the soundness of the available evidence for and against the designing of cities with high densities. In it, Ng continues to expand the discussions on the fallacy and credibility of high-density approaches towards achieving sustainability, this being a reference to a wide range of scholars. He presents a number of experiences offered by various scholars, experts and practitioners who present different evidence and examples from many countries around the world.