Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Sustainable Urban Form in Developing Countries? -- Introduction -- The Compact City Debate: A Global Perspective -- Compact Cities in Developing Countries: Assessment and Implications -- Compact City Policies for Megacities: Core Areas and Metropolitan Regions -- The Regional Dimension of the Compact City Debate: Latin America -- The Agricultural Consequences of Compact Development: The Case of Asian Cities -- The Need for Compact Development in the Fast-Growing Areas of China: The Pearl River Delta -- The Sustainable City as Metaphor: Urban Environmentalism in Medelln, Colombia -- A High-Density 'Instant' City: Pudong in Shanghai -- Urban Climate and Compact Cities in Developing Countries -- Introduction -- Can Urban Management Deliver the Sustainable City? Guided Densification in Brazil versus Informal Compactness in Egypt -- City Expansion Policy versus Compact City Demand: The Case of Dhaka -- The Inverted Compact City of Delhi -- Views from the Urban Fringe: Habitat, Quality of Life and Gender in Santiago, Chile -- Minimising the Negative Effects of Urban Sprawl: Towards a Strategy for Brazil -- Rethinking the Compact City: Informal Urban Development in Caracas -- Introduction -- The Relevance of the Compact City Approach: The Management of Urban Growth in South African Cities -- Cultural and Institutional Obstacles to Compact Cities in South Africa -- From Fragmentation to Compaction? The Case of Durban, South Africa -- High-Rise and High-Density Compact Urban Form: The Development of Hong Kong -- The Compact City of Hong Kong: A Sustainable Model for Asia? -- Introduction -- Transport Dilemmas in Dense Urban Areas: Examples from Eastern Asia -- Bangkok Mass Transit Development Zones -- Bulk Engineering Services: Costs and Densities.

Compact City Environmental Strategies: Calcutta's Urban Ecosystem -- Spatial Analysis of Urban Sustainability: Tainan City, Taiwan -- Energy Use and Household Income: A Developing Country Perspective -- Conclusion The Appropriateness of Compact City Concepts to Developing Countries -- Index.