Growing Cities Sustainably: Does Urban Form Really Matter?

Journal of the American Planning Association 78(2): 121-137, 2012

By: American Planning Association National, Gordon Mitchell

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01944363.2012.666731
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Benefits of Compact, Mixed Use Development

This JAPA article uses forecasting and modeling to show that compact development is not clearly more sustainable than sprawl. It also warns that “white collar” lifestyles and population growth will have a bigger impact on the destruction of natural resources than urban form.