Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have shown that low-rise, high-density neighborhoods
Densely built environments contributemajor contributor to carbon emissions, energy demand, resource consumption and waste generation. In the US, such areas account for 39% of all greenhouse gas emissions, in the EU - 50% of all extracted materials and 42% of final energy consumption.
In the new work, the authors modeled the idealcity to show how to optimally eliminate greenhouse gases at the level of building format. This model refutes the myth that the city of the future should only grow upward, and the houses should fit tightly together.
The early idea was that high-riseBuildings make optimal use of space - and thus reduce energy consumption for heating and cooling, as well as accommodate more people per square meter of land.
The team analyzed four different typescities - from dense and high to scattered and one-story. The results show that density is important when building the cities of the future, but the height of the building, on the contrary, should be low.
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