Advanced search
Publication Cover
European Planning Studies Volume 28, 2020 - Issue 1
Submit an article Journal homepage
3,737
Views
56
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Regular Articles

Urban sustainability: is densification sufficient?

Petter NæssDepartment of Urban and Regional Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, NorwayCorrespondence[email protected]
ORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8571-8326View further author information
ORCID Icon,
Inger-Lise SaglieDepartment of Urban and Regional Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, NorwayView further author information
&
Tim RichardsonDepartment of Urban and Regional Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, NorwayORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3570-2830View further author information
ORCID Icon
Pages 146-165 | Received 27 Apr 2018, Accepted 01 Apr 2019, Published online: 14 Apr 2019

Citations (56)

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Subscribe to citation updates

Read on this site (14)

Vafa Dianati & Catalina Turcu. (2023) Place (un)making through soft urban densification: exploring local experiences of density and place attachment in Tehran. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development 15:1, pages 63-79.
Read now
Petter Næss. (2023) Urban sustainability responsibilities of the European planning profession in the next decades. European Planning Studies 31:11, pages 2342-2353.
Read now
Gregg Colburn. (2023) Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing. Journal of the American Planning Association 89:3, pages 404-405.
Read now
Pinglang Kou, Yuxiang Tao, Ali P. Yunus, Qiang Xu, Rui Liu, Zhao Jin, Wenli Liang, Ying Xia & Shuang Yuan. (2023) Quantifying night-time light change drivers in China’s Yangtze River economic zone. International Journal of Remote Sensing 0:0, pages 1-22.
Read now
Jill L. Grant. (2023) Complete Community. Journal of the American Planning Association 0:0, pages 1-17.
Read now
Daniel Durrant, Christian Lamker & Yvonne Rydin. (2023) The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth. Planning Theory & Practice 24:2, pages 287-295.
Read now
Kostas Mouratidis & Bengt Andersen. (2023) What makes people stay longer in the densifying city? Exploring the neighbourhood environment and social ties. Housing Studies 0:0, pages 1-22.
Read now
Karen Richardsen Moberg. (2022) Environmentally friendly urban development: changes in decision-makers’ attitudes, problem perceptions and policy preferences over three decades. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 0:0, pages 1-23.
Read now
Jin Xue & Wojciech Kębłowski. (2022) Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning. Local Environment 27:4, pages 397-403.
Read now
Jin Xue. (2022) Urban planning and degrowth: a missing dialogue. Local Environment 27:4, pages 404-422.
Read now
Petter Næss. (2021) Sustainable urban planning – what kinds of change do we need?. Journal of Critical Realism 20:5, pages 508-524.
Read now
Rebecca Cavicchia. (2021) Are Green, dense cities more inclusive? Densification and housing accessibility in Oslo. Local Environment 26:10, pages 1250-1266.
Read now
Millicent Awialie Akaateba, Abubakari Ahmed & Daniel Kweku Baah Inkoom. (2021) Chiefs, land professionals and hybrid planning in Tamale and Techiman, Ghana: Implications for sustainable urban development. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development 13:3, pages 464-480.
Read now
Mahla Tayefi Nasrabadi, Ester Higueras García & Maryam Pourzakarya. (2021) Let children plan neighborhoods for a sustainable future: a sustainable child-friendly city approach. Local Environment 26:2, pages 198-215.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (42)

Xin Guo, Yan Chen, Ziyi Jia, Yuqin Li, Lixiao Zhang, Zhi Qiao & Yan Hao. (2024) Spatial and temporal inequity of urban land use efficiency in China: A perspective of dynamic expansion. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 104, pages 107357.
Crossref
Zhen Zhang, Jingjing Yu & Jingyao Tian. (2023) Community Participation, Social Capital Cultivation and Sustainable Community Renewal: A Case Study from Xi’an’s Southern Suburbs, China. Journal of the Knowledge Economy.
Crossref
Sanna Ala-Mantila, Antti Kurvinen & Aleksi Karhula. (2023) Measuring sustainable urban development in residential areas of the 20 biggest Finnish cities. npj Urban Sustainability 3:1.
Crossref
Qian Cao, He Huang, Wei Wang & Lunche Wang. (2023) Characterizing urban densification in the city of Wuhan using time-series building information. Landscape Ecology.
Crossref
Petter Næss. (2023) Klimakrise, naturkrise og ulikhetskrise: Utfordringer for forskere og planleggere. Plan 55:2, pages 18-27.
Crossref
Ebba Lisberg Jensen, Johanna Alkan Olsson & Ebba Malmqvist. (2023) Growing Inwards: Densification and Ecosystem Services in Comprehensive Plans from Three Municipalities in Southern Sweden. Sustainability 15:13, pages 9928.
Crossref
J. A. van der Werf, Z. Kapelan & J. G. Langeveld. (2023) The Impact of Blue‐Green Infrastructure and Urban Area Densification on the Performance of Real‐Time Control of Sewer Networks. Water Resources Research 59:6.
Crossref
Nahid Mohajeri, Alina Walch, Alison Smith, Agust Gudmundsson, Dan Assouline, Tom Russell & Jim Hall. (2023) A machine learning methodology to quantify the potential of urban densification in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, United Kingdom. Sustainable Cities and Society 92, pages 104451.
Crossref
Monika Szopińska-Mularz & Steffen Lehmann. (2023) Balancing Increased Urban Density with Green Spaces: The Marketing of New Housing Estates in Poland. Buildings 13:3, pages 777.
Crossref
Clara Florentine Köhler, Maya Louise Holding, Hein Sprong, Patrick A. Jansen & Helen J. Esser. (2023) Biodiversity in the Lyme-light: ecological restoration and tick-borne diseases in Europe. Trends in Parasitology.
Crossref
Donizete Beck & Marcos Ferasso. (2023) Bridging ‘Stakeholder Value Creation’ and ‘Urban Sustainability’: The need for better integrating the Environmental Dimension. Sustainable Cities and Society 89, pages 104316.
Crossref
Zander S. Venter, Helene Figari, Olve Krange & Vegard Gundersen. (2023) Environmental justice in a very green city: Spatial inequality in exposure to urban nature, air pollution and heat in Oslo, Norway. Science of The Total Environment 858, pages 160193.
Crossref
Ana-Maria POPA, Ioan Cristian IOJĂ, Diana Andreea ONOSE & Mihai Răzvan NIȚĂ. (2022) Evaluating the Integration of Nature-Based Solutions Concept in Strategic Urban Planning in Romania. Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning 13:2, pages 81-94.
Crossref
Stefan Siedentop, Stephan Schmidt & Alistair Dunlop. (2022) Managing Urban Growth – an Overview of the Literature. Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning 80:6, pages 659-677.
Crossref
Yuqing Dai, Xiaoming Cai, Jian Zhong & A. Robert MacKenzie. (2022) Chemistry, street canyon geometry, and emissions effects on NO2 “hotspots” and regulatory “wiggle room”. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 5:1.
Crossref
Patrick Moriarty. (2022) Making urban travel sustainable: Travel reductions are needed. Cleaner Production Letters 3, pages 100010.
Crossref
André da Silva Menezes & José André Villas Boas Mello. (2022) Expansión inmobiliaria y densidad de población en la periferia de un Estado brasileño: un análisis de la ciudad de Nueva Iguazú. Geograficando 18:2, pages e122.
Crossref
Benedikt Schmid. (2022) What about the City? Towards an Urban Post-Growth Research Agenda. Sustainability 14:19, pages 11926.
Crossref
Juan Pablo Celemin & Maria Eugenia Arias. (2022) Relationship between densification and NDVI loss. A study using the Google Earth Engine at local scale. Environmental & Socio-economic Studies 10:3, pages 33-42.
Crossref
Maxime Colomb, Cécile Tannier, Julien Perret, Paul Chapron & Mickaël Brasebin. (2022) Parcel Manager : A parcel reshaping model incorporating design rules of residential development . Transactions in GIS 26:6, pages 2558-2597.
Crossref
Saurav Chakraborty, Indranil Maity, Hashem Dadashpoor, Josef Novotnẏ & Suranjana Banerji. (2022) Building in or out? Examining urban expansion patterns and land use efficiency across the global sample of 466 cities with million+ inhabitants. Habitat International 120, pages 102503.
Crossref
Rebecca Cavicchia & Roberta Cucca. 2022. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures 1972 1985 .
Rebecca Cavicchia & Roberta Cucca. 2020. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures 1 14 .
Petter Næss & Karen Richardsen Moberg. (2021) Change processes and driving forces behind urban spatial development in four Norwegian municipalities. Nordic Journal of Urban Studies 1:2, pages 148-175.
Crossref
Helena Madureira & Ana Monteiro. (2021) Going Green and Going Dense: A Systematic Review of Compatibilities and Conflicts in Urban Research. Sustainability 13:19, pages 10643.
Crossref
Kathryn Russell. (2021) Potential sediment supply fluxes associated with greenfield residential construction. Anthropocene 35, pages 100300.
Crossref
Daniela Maiullari, Marjolein Pijpers-van Esch & Arjan Van Timmeren. (2021) A Quantitative Morphological Method for Mapping Local Climate Types. Urban Planning 6:3, pages 240-257.
Crossref
Justyna Przywojska. (2021) Polish Local Government’s Perspective on Revitalisation: A Framework for Future Socially Sustainable Solutions. Energies 14:16, pages 4888.
Crossref
Ali Cheshmehzangi, Chris Butters, Linjun Xie & Ayotunde Dawodu. (2021) Green infrastructures for urban sustainability: Issues, implications, and solutions for underdeveloped areas. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 59, pages 127028.
Crossref
Jacques Teller. (2021) Regulating urban densification: what factors should be used?. Buildings and Cities 2:1, pages 302-317.
Crossref
Quan Liu, Sufang Liu, Gaohui Hu, Tao Yang, Cong Du & Markus Oeser. (2021) Infiltration Capacity and Structural Analysis of Permeable Pavements for Sustainable Urban: A Full-scale Case Study. Journal of Cleaner Production 288, pages 125111.
Crossref
M. Reza Shirazi & Ramin Keivani. (2021) Social Sustainability of Compact Neighbourhoods Evidence from London and Berlin. Sustainability 13:4, pages 2340.
Crossref
Ana Kasznar, Ahmed Hammad, Mohammad Najjar, Eduardo Linhares Qualharini, Karoline Figueiredo, Carlos Soares & Assed Haddad. (2021) Multiple Dimensions of Smart Cities’ Infrastructure: A Review. Buildings 11:2, pages 73.
Crossref
Bob Giddings & Robert Rogerson. (2021) Compacting the city centre: densification in two Newcastles. Buildings and Cities 2:1, pages 185-202.
Crossref
Aziz Shahraki Abdol. (2021) Home Building and demands of the population in Ramshar New Town. Journal of Geography and Regional Planning 14:1, pages 42-53.
Crossref
Lin Lerpold, Örjan Sjöberg & Wing-Shing Tang. 2021. Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I. Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I 283 313 .
Sanja Potrč, Lidija Čuček, Mariano Martin & Zdravko Kravanja. (2020) Synthesis of European Union Biorefinery Supply Networks Considering Sustainability Objectives. Processes 8:12, pages 1588.
Crossref
Kabila Abass, Daniel Buor, Kwadwo Afriyie, Gift Dumedah, Alex Yao Segbefi, Lawrence Guodaar, Emmanuel Kofi Garsonu, Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, David Forkuor, Andrews Ofosu, Abass Mohammed & Razak M. Gyasi. (2020) Urban sprawl and green space depletion: Implications for flood incidence in Kumasi, Ghana. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 51, pages 101915.
Crossref
Åse Johannessen & Erik Mostert. (2020) Urban Water Governance and Learning—Time for More Systemic Approaches?. Sustainability 12:17, pages 6916.
Crossref
Pavel Grabalov & Helena Nordh. (2020) “Philosophical Park”: Cemeteries in the Scandinavian Urban Context. Sociální studia / Social Studies 17:1, pages 33-54.
Crossref
Petter Næss. 2020. Standard Transport Appraisal Methods. Standard Transport Appraisal Methods 287 318 .
Petter Næss. 2020. Innovation in Public Planning. Innovation in Public Planning 91 109 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.