TheNZThrower
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According to a Cato Institute article by a Randal O'Toole, building denser increases congestion and thus CO2 Emissions:
I'm currently tired, and the paper is long. So if you've got more leads, please reply.
This here is the paper by Kockelman. I've noticed a little disparity:A paper by transportation engineer Kara Kockelman (who was also on the TRB committee) and colleagues at the University of Texas reviews alternative means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions... the paper says, compact development and transit improvements could both substantially increase emissions rather than reduce them—the first by increasing congestion (which leads cars to emit more pollution) and the second because transit construction and operations both emit substantial amounts of greenhouse gases.
So Kockelman appear to say that multi-family housing does bear significant energy savings over the long term.Over the longer term, requirements for better building design, particularly high R-value insulation, a shift toward multi-family structures and smaller dwelling units, use and re-use of lower-energy building materials, and more compact urban arrangements will bear more significant and enduring savings.
I'm currently tired, and the paper is long. So if you've got more leads, please reply.