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The Economics of Urban Density
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020 Density boosts productivity and innovation, improves access to goods and services, reduces typical travel distances, encourages energy efficient construction and transport, and allows broader sharing of scarce urban amenities. However, density is also synonymous with crowding and makes living and moving in cities more costly.
Gilles Duranton, Diego Puga
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DEVELOPMENT OF VLADIVOSTOK’S BUILT-UP AREAS: TARGET DENSITY, URBAN FORM AND ECONOMIC POTENTIAL
Архитектон, 2022 The article examines the urban development potential of Vladivostok’s built-up areas based on density indicators in the context of the existing housing problems.
Potapenko Anastasia A.
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An Urban Density-Based Runoff Simulation Framework to Envisage Flood Resilience of Cities
Urban Science, 2023 Assessing the influence of urban density on surface runoff volume is vital for guiding the built-form expansions toward flood-resilient cities. This paper attempts to develop a spatial simulation framework to assess the impact of urban density on the ...
Naduni Wijayawardana +3 more
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Urban sprawl, density, and accessibility
Papers in Regional Science, 1992 Suburban sprawl is often criticized on the grounds that it results in low density land uses. A model is developed and calibrated in which a planning agency can influence the sequencing and densities of two phases of suburban development on the urban fringe.
Eric J. Heikkila, Richard B. Peiser
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Cybergeo, 2012 This paper examines the impact of urban forms on sonic perceptions in three public spaces in Grenoble: the Tilleuls square in the old center, the Mistral-Eaux-Claires square in the Eaux-Claires district, and the Centrale square on the U-campus.
Solène Marry, Laëtitia Arantes
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Balancing Increased Urban Density with Green Spaces: The Marketing of New Housing Estates in Poland
Buildings, 2023 This study aims to analyse the transformation of urban greenery into greenfield housing development from 2019 to 2023 in the medium-sized city of Rzeszow (Poland) by evaluating the validity of references to the greenery in advertising texts on the ...
Monika Szopińska-Mularz +1 more
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How Green Do We Want to Live in 2100? Lessons Learned from the Homes of the Present-Day Rich
Buildings, 2017 This study explores the extent to which rich Dutch households live green, in the form of green surrounding homes directly and nearby public green. The authors interpret this ‘greenness’ as a signal of how green the wider population wishes to live in the ...
Michiel N. Daams, Frans J. Sijtsma
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Remote Sensing, 2022 The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) provides time-series data characterizing the land surface for the United States, including land cover and tree canopy cover (NLCD-TC).
Mehdi Pourpeikari Heris +3 more
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Urban growth and population densities [PDF]
Demography, 1973 Abstract Differences in the distribution of population within and across metropolitan areas are seen as a product of the development of the metropolis during different transportation epochs. Age cohorts of census tracts in Cleveland, Ohio, may be split into three groups of development patterns based on the time of their early development:
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The geographies of urban density [PDF]
Progress in Human Geography, 2016 As the world increasingly urbanizes, the imaginaries, conceptions and politics of urban density will become increasingly urgent for research, policy, practice and activism. Density is a keyword in the history of how the city has been conceived and understood, and is firmly back on the global urban agenda.
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