Density

This issue approaches the subject of density from diverse perspectives. Starting from its physical definition, the articles explore complementary dimensions of density such as time, language, form, intention, context, information, technology, and complexity. Each of these dimensions suggests different policy and research 

questions for professionals, academics and their students working on the built environment. Taken together they broaden the meaning(s) of density and its significance in urban analysis and discourse. Density is much more than a simple absolute quantitative parameter; it is also a powerful relational concept. 

 

• Density: An Overview Essay
  Michael Cohen and Margarita Gutman
• Aid, Density, and Urban Form: Anticipating Dakar
  Michael Cohen
• Buenos Aires: Involuntary Incentives to Metropolitan Dispersal
  Fernando Diez
• Metropolitan Cities: Territory and Governability, the Spanish Case
  Albert Arias and Jordi Borja
• Morphology of Density
  Roberto Doberti and Liliana Giordano
• Ubiquitous Computing, Informatization, Urban Structures and Density
  Graham Clarke and Victor Callaghan
• The Last Days of Low-Density Living: Suburbs and the End of Oil
  Rachel Heiman
• Proximate Distances: The Phenomenology of Density in Mumbai
  Vyjayanthi Rao
• On the Declining Population of the Centre: A Research Note
  Shlomo Angel
• Publication Reviews