The elderly may experience difficulty achieving a good quality of life due to encroachment on their life spaces by high density buildings and environmental degradation (Sun et al. 2017).
Condominiums and rental units in Stockholm municipality are usually located in multi-family and higher density buildings that dominate the inner city areas and some outer districts.
The debate over whether high-density building is the best model for sustainable development is far from settled, says Randal O'Toole, a fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington.
The average wind velocity in the high-density building area is very low.
Wendy Leece, who served on the council from 2006 to 2014, said she thinks the majority allowed too much high-density building in town and took actions that were detrimental to the city's public safety departments.
Finally, tall, high-density buildings have become associated with dead public space at ground level.
Do you foresee a political or neighborhood battle over the prospect of building new, high-density buildings?
So, if they can get communities to agree to high-density buildings, the cost will be lower.
They do advocate greater limits on coastal development, especially when it comes to high-density buildings.
The program -- which is coupled with an aggressive water conservation requirement -- is designed to protect owners of high-density buildings from significant increases in water bills that could result when the buildings are billed on a metered basis.
A few months later, a government white paper emerged encouraging development of high-density buildings close to transport hubs.
