Dense housing and urban sustainable development

Abstract

There are close relationships between urban housing density and urban sustainability. It is important but difficult to accurately estimate the appropriate housing density to enable a city to meet variable future social, economic and environmental needs. If a city’s urban housing density could be adjusted or influenced through some “regulators” – some design factors, housing developments could be guided along the right path to meet such needs. This study randomly selected 40 existing housing projects built during the decade 1995 to 2004 through which to investigate the interactive relationships between the various design data of these housing projects and to try to identify the design factors which could be applied through housing policies to impact housing density in the local housing market for future dense housing development engaged with future urban sustainability.