Thread: Curbing suburban sprawl will do little to reduce CO2 emissions except for Portland.
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Old Posted Sep 16, 2009, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Snowden352 View Post
the causation of the reduction in CO2 is from smarter planning, not density of living.
This could be questioned, loock at this study http://www.feem-web.it/ess/files/karathodorou.doc.pdf by Niovi Karathodorou and Daniel J. Graham. It shows a clear relationship between urban densities and fuel consumption, especially for low densities like Portland's a small increase in its density would mean a massive decrease in fuel consumption.
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