Where are cities under pressure? – An indicator for measuring the impact of building changes on urban density

Research on the Geographical Pattern, Evolution Model, and Driving Mechanism of Carbon Emission Density from Urban Industrial Land in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China

“…City governments hope to address urban disease by promoting the rebirth and revitalization of urban centers through high-density development, mixed-use land use, and transit-oriented development to conserve land and reduce energy consumption [63]. Since the beginning of the 21st century, scholars have begun to pay attention to and gradually attach importance to the negative effects of high-density urban development, such as traffic congestion caused by excessive high-density urban development, the declining living environment quality, insufficient green space, and serious air pollution [64]. Based on the value trade-off between "economy, environment and people" and the historical reflections on the development of cities with low and high densities, the inverted U-shaped relationship between urban density and urban development benefits has gradually become the consensus of academia and industry [65].…”

Elevational Earth-Sheltered Buildings with Horizontal Overhang Photovoltaic-Integrated Panels—New Energy-Plus Building Concept in the Territory of Serbia

“…Today, great attention is paid to the shape of buildings [6,7], their orientation [8,9], the mutual distance between buildings and building density [10,11], vegetation use [12,13], maximization of daylight use [14,15], the use of modern construction materials [16,17], and shading devices, which will be chronologically (from 1998 to 2024) analyzed below. In [18], the effects of passive cooling using window overhangs for a building located in Shiraz (Iran) were investigated experimentally and theoretically.…”