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Nancy Holman et al., « Coordinating density; working through conviction, suspicion and pragmatism », HAL-SHS : géographie, ID : 10.1016/j.progress.2014.05.001
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Coordinating density; working through conviction, suspicion and pragmatism.Achieving higher density development has become, as part of sustainable development, a coreprinciple of the contemporary planning professional. The appeal of density is its simplicity, it is anindependent measurable element to which various separate claims can be and are attached; itachieves greater public transport use, makes it possible to live nearer to work, supports mixed usesproviding a more lively street-scene and so on. As the academic literature has shown the reality ismuch more complex as achieving a positive outcome through adjustments to density may lead tonegative outcomes elsewhere; it can allow more people to live near public transport nodes but can bedetrimental in terms of housing affordability for example. Given this tension between the simplicityof the claims and the complexity of application we are interested in how planners seek to balance themultiple advantages and disadvantages of density; to what extent do they approach density as asimple variable or as a complex act of balancing. We address this question by looking at four higherdensity developments in London.