Cristian Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 5437828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristian Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristian |
| FAMILY NAME | Silva |
| SIGNATURE | SILVA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9575-5737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unlocking the middle zone
Compact urban development has been widely promoted as a model for sustainable urbanism, yet evidence increasingly documents ecological concerns associated with elevated surface temperatures, worsening air quality, and shrinking green space. Current research has examined this tension predominantly through correlational approaches, assessing the direction and strength of associations between compact urban development and particular ecological outco…
A relational framework for interstitial urban geographies
Urban theory has long treated interstitial spaces, gaps, vacant lots, buffers, and residual land as anomalies to be resolved through infill and redevelopment. This epistemology of “fullness” obscures how such spaces actively mediate relations between the neighbourhoods they separate. This article reconceptualises interstitial spaces as relational formations rather than residual voids. Drawing on relational spatial theory, it advances a three-doma…
Operationalising ‘integral density’
Debates on urban density have long been shaped by a tension between quantitative and qualitative assessments – often treated as oppositional – prompting the search for ideal forms, thresholds, or indices defining optimal densification. Empirical evidence, however, consistently demonstrates that such models frequently underperform once implemented, producing uneven social, spatial, functional, or environmental outcomes across contexts. This paper …
The Social Equity of Spatial Compactness Varies by Context
While compact urban development is widely promoted as a pathway to greater social equity, empirical evidence on the extent to which social equity is achieved remains inconclusive. To advance on this, we address three elements on compact urban development linked to social equity that have been little examined: (i) the conflation of compactness with density; (ii) the limited fine‐scale analysis of compactness in relation to demographic patterns; an…
Creative disruption or the trivialisation of townscapes? The meanings and acceptance of Irish modern high-rise buildings
The emergence of high-rise buildings has raised concerns on how such typologies disrupt or enhance the townscapes where they are erected. Such concerns are contentious in places with a longstanding tradition of low-rise architecture – such as Ireland – where the high-rise buildings are perceived creative symbols of modernity while disruptive of local values and preservation of historic heritage and urban identity. By taking a grounded-theory appr…
The spatial ontologies of interstitial spaces
Cities are composed of a varied array of interstices that are often observed as a network of undeveloped, vacant, or leftover spaces and infrastructures. Such conditions, however, little speak on the multifaceted nature of interstitial spaces as in-between domains that can be morphologically heterogeneous, functionally active, and socially constructed; something that expands on the multiple ontologies of interstitiality beyond being vacant, empty…
Determinants of urban sprawl in Latin America
Urban sprawl has been widely discussed in regard of its economic, political, social and environmental impacts. Consequently, several planning policies have been placed to stop—or at least restrain—sprawling development. However, most of these policies have not been successful at all as anti-sprawl policies partially address only a few determinants of a multifaceted phenomenon. This includes processes of extended suburbanisation, peri-urbanisation…
The rural lands of urban sprawl
Urban sprawl has been mainly discussed in regard to its negative impacts. However, there is a variety of rural lands that benefit the suburbanization process in social, environmental, economic and political terms. These lands configure a category of rurality rarely considered as part of the urban phenomenon, and usually seen as pending space for further (sub)urbanization. In this sense, planning regimes and institutional changes tend to transform…
Auckland’s Urban Sprawl, Policy Ambiguities and the Peri-Urbanisation to Pukekohe
Urban sprawl has been discussed extensively with regard to its negative impacts. On this basis, regulations have been put in place to control sprawling suburbanization, including the establishment of restricted areas for expansion defined by administrative urban boundaries. Overall, these measures have not been at all successful, considering that city-regions continue to expand inorganically, often reinforcing urban sprawl patterns. As clear evid…
Mind the gaps! A research agenda for urban interstices
Processes of urbanisation can hardly be considered without reference to the spaces that lie between developments. However, the literature on such interstitial spaces is fragmentary. In this paper we draw together insights from the extant literature into a research agenda on urban interstices. We propose a research agenda centred on four themes: the multiple geographic scales at which the interstitial spaces of urban sprawl might be analysed; the …
Urban sprawl and infrastructural lands
Mind the gaps! A research agenda for urban interstices
Processes of urbanisation can hardly be considered without reference to the spaces that lie between developments. However, the literature on such interstitial spaces is fragmentary. In this paper we draw together insights from the extant literature into a research agenda on urban interstices. We propose a research agenda centred on four themes: the multiple geographic scales at which the interstitial spaces of urban sprawl might be analysed; the …
Urban sprawl and infrastructural lands
The rural lands of urban sprawl
Urban sprawl has been mainly discussed in regard to its negative impacts. However, there is a variety of rural lands that benefit the suburbanization process in social, environmental, economic and political terms. These lands configure a category of rurality rarely considered as part of the urban phenomenon, and usually seen as pending space for further (sub)urbanization. In this sense, planning regimes and institutional changes tend to transform…
Auckland’s Urban Sprawl, Policy Ambiguities and the Peri-Urbanisation to Pukekohe
Urban sprawl has been discussed extensively with regard to its negative impacts. On this basis, regulations have been put in place to control sprawling suburbanization, including the establishment of restricted areas for expansion defined by administrative urban boundaries. Overall, these measures have not been at all successful, considering that city-regions continue to expand inorganically, often reinforcing urban sprawl patterns. As clear evid…
The spatial ontologies of interstitial spaces
Cities are composed of a varied array of interstices that are often observed as a network of undeveloped, vacant, or leftover spaces and infrastructures. Such conditions, however, little speak on the multifaceted nature of interstitial spaces as in-between domains that can be morphologically heterogeneous, functionally active, and socially constructed; something that expands on the multiple ontologies of interstitiality beyond being vacant, empty…
Urban sprawl and infrastructural lands
Auckland’s Urban Sprawl, Policy Ambiguities and the Peri-Urbanisation to Pukekohe
Urban sprawl has been discussed extensively with regard to its negative impacts. On this basis, regulations have been put in place to control sprawling suburbanization, including the establishment of restricted areas for expansion defined by administrative urban boundaries. Overall, these measures have not been at all successful, considering that city-regions continue to expand inorganically, often reinforcing urban sprawl patterns. As clear evid…
Mind the gaps! A research agenda for urban interstices
Processes of urbanisation can hardly be considered without reference to the spaces that lie between developments. However, the literature on such interstitial spaces is fragmentary. In this paper we draw together insights from the extant literature into a research agenda on urban interstices. We propose a research agenda centred on four themes: the multiple geographic scales at which the interstitial spaces of urban sprawl might be analysed; the …
The rural lands of urban sprawl
Urban sprawl has been mainly discussed in regard to its negative impacts. However, there is a variety of rural lands that benefit the suburbanization process in social, environmental, economic and political terms. These lands configure a category of rurality rarely considered as part of the urban phenomenon, and usually seen as pending space for further (sub)urbanization. In this sense, planning regimes and institutional changes tend to transform…
Determinants of urban sprawl in Latin America
Urban sprawl has been widely discussed in regard of its economic, political, social and environmental impacts. Consequently, several planning policies have been placed to stop—or at least restrain—sprawling development. However, most of these policies have not been successful at all as anti-sprawl policies partially address only a few determinants of a multifaceted phenomenon. This includes processes of extended suburbanisation, peri-urbanisation…
The spatial ontologies of interstitial spaces
Cities are composed of a varied array of interstices that are often observed as a network of undeveloped, vacant, or leftover spaces and infrastructures. Such conditions, however, little speak on the multifaceted nature of interstitial spaces as in-between domains that can be morphologically heterogeneous, functionally active, and socially constructed; something that expands on the multiple ontologies of interstitiality beyond being vacant, empty…
Unlocking the middle zone
Compact urban development has been widely promoted as a model for sustainable urbanism, yet evidence increasingly documents ecological concerns associated with elevated surface temperatures, worsening air quality, and shrinking green space. Current research has examined this tension predominantly through correlational approaches, assessing the direction and strength of associations between compact urban development and particular ecological outco…
A relational framework for interstitial urban geographies
Urban theory has long treated interstitial spaces, gaps, vacant lots, buffers, and residual land as anomalies to be resolved through infill and redevelopment. This epistemology of “fullness” obscures how such spaces actively mediate relations between the neighbourhoods they separate. This article reconceptualises interstitial spaces as relational formations rather than residual voids. Drawing on relational spatial theory, it advances a three-doma…
Operationalising ‘integral density’
Debates on urban density have long been shaped by a tension between quantitative and qualitative assessments – often treated as oppositional – prompting the search for ideal forms, thresholds, or indices defining optimal densification. Empirical evidence, however, consistently demonstrates that such models frequently underperform once implemented, producing uneven social, spatial, functional, or environmental outcomes across contexts. This paper …
The Social Equity of Spatial Compactness Varies by Context
While compact urban development is widely promoted as a pathway to greater social equity, empirical evidence on the extent to which social equity is achieved remains inconclusive. To advance on this, we address three elements on compact urban development linked to social equity that have been little examined: (i) the conflation of compactness with density; (ii) the limited fine‐scale analysis of compactness in relation to demographic patterns; an…
Creative disruption or the trivialisation of townscapes? The meanings and acceptance of Irish modern high-rise buildings
The emergence of high-rise buildings has raised concerns on how such typologies disrupt or enhance the townscapes where they are erected. Such concerns are contentious in places with a longstanding tradition of low-rise architecture – such as Ireland – where the high-rise buildings are perceived creative symbols of modernity while disruptive of local values and preservation of historic heritage and urban identity. By taking a grounded-theory appr…
Urban Planning and Governance (7 works) · Urban planning (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Urban sprawl (5 works) · Urbanization (5 works) · Civil engineering (4 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works)