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What Does It Take to Make the Compact City Liveable for Wider Groups? Identifying Key Neighbourhood and Dwelling Features

by
Theresa Kotulla
1,*,
Jon Martin Denstadli
2,
Are Oust
2 and
Elisabeth Beusker
1
1
Department for Real Estate Development, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), D-52062 Aachen, Germany
2
NTNU Business School, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
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Sustainability 2019, 11(12), 3480; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11123480
Received: 20 May 2019 / Revised: 19 June 2019 / Accepted: 21 June 2019 / Published: 25 June 2019
(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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Compact cities promote sustainability through several mechanisms, and high-density city development has become a key strategy for policy decision makers to accommodate population growth and mitigate human impacts of the local and global environment. The aim of this study is to identify elements of the built environment and inner-city dwellings considered important for improving compact-city liveability for various groups throughout their life cycles. To attend to the depth and complexity of this issue, this study is based on a qualitative approach, where data are gathered through in-depth interviews with housing market specialists. The expert panel emphasises proximity to green spaces and easy access to local services/facilities and public transportation as key elements of the built environment to improve compact-city liveability. At the same time, some of the respondents strongly argue with facilitating neighbourhoods for private cars. With regard to dwelling characteristics, the experts emphasised the importance of adequate storage space and the availability of a balcony as vital to high-density liveability. Balconies can alleviate some of the negative effects by working as a personal ‘mini garden’. Moreover, a general opinion among experts is that compact living developments should facilitate shared facilities to level out the space disadvantages of small-space dwellings. View Full-Text
Keywords: compact housing; compact city; liveability; sustainable city development; Germany compact housing; compact city; liveability; sustainable city development; Germany
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Kotulla, T.; Denstadli, J.M.; Oust, A.; Beusker, E. What Does It Take to Make the Compact City Liveable for Wider Groups? Identifying Key Neighbourhood and Dwelling Features. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3480. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11123480

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Kotulla T, Denstadli JM, Oust A, Beusker E. What Does It Take to Make the Compact City Liveable for Wider Groups? Identifying Key Neighbourhood and Dwelling Features. Sustainability. 2019; 11(12):3480. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11123480

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Kotulla, Theresa, Jon M. Denstadli, Are Oust, and Elisabeth Beusker. 2019. "What Does It Take to Make the Compact City Liveable for Wider Groups? Identifying Key Neighbourhood and Dwelling Features" Sustainability 11, no. 12: 3480. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11123480

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