Planning instruments enhance the acceptance of urban densification.

ABSTRACT: Dense and compact cities yield several benefits for both the population and the environment, including the containment of urban sprawl, reduced carbon emissions, and increased housing supply. Densification of the built environment is thus a key contemporary urban planning paradigm worldwide. However, local residents often oppose urban densification, motivating a need to understand their underlying concerns. In order to do so, we examined different factors driving public acceptance of housing densification projects through a combination of a conjoint survey experiment and different proximity frames among 12,402 participants across Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. Respondents compared housing densification projects with varying attributes, including their geographic

SUBMITTER: Wicki M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9499520 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature