"building density" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to the amount of buildings within an area, typically measured as a ratio of buildings to the total area size. For example, "The building density of downtown Manhattan is quite high compared to other parts of the city."
It's an incredibly expensive business to get right; you have to have building density," she says.
Measures include modest increases in building density, light rail transit schemes and policies to encourage walking and cycling.
It would increase the maximum allowable building density by 60 percent for some large sites near the terminal.
While the proposed overall building density did not change, the developers narrowed the towers to preserve more of the ocean views enjoyed by inland residents.
Preservationists fear that the increase in permissible building density envisioned in the mayor's rezoning plan would make it economically feasible to demolish structures like these.
"They are transformative, because we'll be building height and we'll be building density," said Martin R. Cantor, director of the Long Island Economic and Social Policy Institute at Dowling College.
Marcia Bystryn, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters, said villages, wary of changing their character, often resist increasing building density even if that means forcing development to go elsewhere and contributing to suburban sprawl.
They are unused or excess development rights gauged, like building density or lot size, by the square foot and transferable, when zoning permits it, from one buildable lot to another.
Although the younger Scarano diverged from that plan, he has always prided himself on his mastery of gritty practicalities: permits, zoning, the trade in air rights, which allow building density to be transferred from one property to another.
The Bloomberg administration is advancing an ambitious rezoning proposal for east Midtown (PDF) that would increase allowable building density and encourage developers over the years to assemble some large sites for enormous new office towers.
On zoning that rewards developers with greater building density for providing public amenities: "The city presides over this blockbuster zoning-roulette in a planning charade, routinely endorsing the pop-up Frankenstein towers after a ritual display of concern and compromise".
