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    Density, the Sustainability Multiplier: Some Myths and Truths with Application to Perth, Australia

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    Open access
    Authors
    Newman, Peter
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Citation
    Newman, P. 2014. Density, the Sustainability Multiplier: Some Myths and Truths with Application to Perth, Australia. Sustainability. 6: pp. 6467-6487.
    Source Title
    Sustainability
    DOI
    10.3390/su6096467
    ISSN
    2071-1050
    School
    Sustainable Policy Institute (CUSP)
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    This article is published under the Open Access publishing model and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Please refer to the licence to obtain terms for any further reuse or distribution of this work.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36119
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The paper suggests that the divisive urban issue of density has criticalimportance for sustainability. It is particularly important to resolve for the low density cardependent cities of the world as they are highly resource consumptive. Ten myths aboutdensity and 10 truths about density are proposed to help resolve the planning issues socommonly found to divide urban communities. They are applied with data to Perth toillustrate the issues and how they can be resolved.

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