Ling Changlong, Liu Zhihang

Keywords： Compact Development; High-density City; Built Environment; Spatial Planning; Regulatory Detailed Planning; Zoning; Sino-Foreign Comparison

Abstract：

The compact development emerging in Western contexts of lower density and urban sprawl has presented greater transportation and public health advantages than non-compact development. At the same time, China’s special conditions have induced a factual trend of high-density compactness. Compared to the strengths of motorized or public transit, the negative impacts on healthy cities and public welfare have raised lasting concerns about compact development in high-density cities. Unlike the West, Chinese cities exhibit relatively high-density landscapes, land-use-centered compact strategies, and economic-oriented high-density tendencies. Compact development, along with increasing urban density, may lead to over-concentrated problems in normally high-density environments. It is necessary to implement differentiated compact policies between urban and rural regions, to develop multi-objective compactness for high-density cities, and to become more inclusive about diverse individual demands when supplying spatial planning products.

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