High Density Cities are Getting Greener

I promote high density real estate as a worthwhile thing for many reasons.

But it’s becoming increasingly clear that apart from all the other good reasons for higher densities, it’s good for the environment.

Here’s an excellent article by Michael Totty called How to Build a Greener City in the Wall Street Journal about some of the latest things being done to improve the environmental effects of built up cities.

It discusses some of the newest strategies like district heating, micro wind turbines, pumped hydro storage, micro hydropower, encouraging walking and biking, personal rapid transit, pneumatic garbage collection, converting waste to resources and green roofs.  When you read about them they make such good sense that it’s hard to understand why everyone’s not working to implement them right now.

Let’s see where things move in our cities to make high density living living better for everyone.

Francesco …