A Study on Integrated Assessment Method for Urban Characteristics with Sustainable Compact City Development

Abstract

The objectives of this study are as follows: 1) Investigating past research methodologies for evaluating various city functions and its activities on sustainable city development, and examining innovative viewpoints of city evaluation considering concepts of compact city as a sustainable one. 2) Constructing a city profile database, developing comprehensive framework for city evaluation considering environmental aspects and compactness, and examining advantage of compact city characteristics and possibilities of achievement on macro perspective integrating social, economical and environmental index. 3) Investigating city characteristics transition from developing to developed country on macro perspective index. The preliminary regression analysis on city compactness using statistical data showed the results as follows: 1) In order to establish comfortable life environment, economic growth is necessary to some extent. 2) In order to establish sustainable city focused on energy use, it is necessary to restrict total city population. 3) In order to reduce air pollutant and alleviant severe traffic condition, high density is necessary to some extent but excess high density leads rapid increase of pollutant load and serious traffic condition. In addition to above socio-economic analysis, we examined spatial city density transition from developing to developed countries and derived the possibilities of comprehensive city evaluation including socio-economic, environmental and spatial density index.