Hi Heath - your question is pretty much the basis of our recent article published in Georgraphical Research. Don't hesitate to contact me with any questions

You could try to find this book on http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789400759213

The compact cities is described on this book based on experience in many cities n Asia. Or you can read this article on http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814042517

Related to sustainable urban form you can read my paper on http://dspace.lib.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2297/40319

Best,

Pindo Tutuko 

please have a look

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Boyko/publications

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Boyko/publications

Dear Heath,

I believe these material will help:

Regards,

Vanessa

http://econhist.userweb.mwn.de/geography/VO%20Compact%20city.pdf

https://www.be.unsw.edu.au/high-density-living/projects/renewing-compact-city

http://journals.aau.dk/index.php/tka/article/download/592/455

Try also Jenks, M., Burton, E. and Williams, K. (Editors), 1996, The Compact City: A Sustainable Urban Form?, Spon Press; ISBN 0-419-21300-7.

it is the basic book, but in my opinion basic one..

Also, I do not think anyone has mentioned the work of Michael Breheny, one of the leading thinkers about the challenges and benefits of compact cities:

Breheny, M. (2001). Densities and Sustainable Cities: The UK Experience. Cities for the New Millenium. M. Echenique and A. Saint. London and New York, Spon Press: 39-51.

Breheny, M. J. (1992). The contradictions of the compact City: a review. Sustainable Development and Urban Form. M. J. Breheny. London, Pion: 138-159.

Breheny, M. J., Ed. (1992). Sustainable Development and Urban Form. London, Pion.

Breheny, M. J. (1995). Counter-urbanisation and Sustainable Urban Forms. Cities in Competition: Productive and sustainable cities for the 21st century. J. Brotchie, M. Batty, E. Blakely, P. Hall and P. Newton. Melbourne, Longman: 402-429.

Breheny, M. J. (1996). Centrists, Decentrists and Compromisers: Views on the Future of Urban Form. The compact city : a sustainable urban form? M. Jenks, E. Burton and K. Williams. London, E & FN Spon: 13-35.

Breheny, M. J. and Regional Science Association. British Section. Conference (1992). Sustainable development and urban form. London, Pion.

Breheny, M. J. and R. Rookwood (1993). Planning the Sustainable City Region. Planning for a Sustainable Environment. A. Blowers. London, Earthscan: 150-189.

Hi Heath,

I did a research on compact city and the following articles (books) might be of use. Please let me know if you have difficulty in finding any of them.

- Churchman, A. (1999). Disentangling the Concept of Density. Journal of Planning Literature, 13(4): 389-411, Sage.

- Dantzig, G.B. and Saaty T.L. (1973). Compact City: A Plan for a Livable Urban Environment, W.H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco, CA.

- Dempsey, N., Brown, C., Raman, Sh., Porta, S., Jenks, M., Jones, C., & Bramley, G. (2010). Elements of Urban From. In Dimensions of the Sustainable City. (2010).M. Jenks, C. Jones (eds.)   Future City 2, Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

- Dieleman, F. & Wegener, M. (2004). Compact City and Urban Sprawl, Built Environment 30(4): 308-323.

- Jenks, M., Burton, E., & Williams, K. (1998). The Compact City: A Sustainable Urban Form? London: E & FN Spon.

- Neuman, M. (2005). The Compact City Fallacy. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 25(1): 11-26.

- Song, Y. & Knaap, G. j. (2004) Measuring Urban Form: Is Portland Winning the War on Sprawl? Journal of the American Planning Association, 70:2, 210-225

- Tomalty, R. (1997). The Compact Metropolis: Growth Management and Intensification in Vancouver, Toronto, And Montreal. ICURR Press, Toronto.

You might find interesting the article:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814062703