Sentences with phrase «encourage urban density»

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Portland has invested heavily in rail - based public transit, and the city enacted strict urban planning rules to encourage greater residential density around transit nodes and workplaces.

The blueprint also encourages urban agriculture, rethinks sewer and wastewater management and reduces greenhouse gas emissions per capita to the lowest in the world by promoting even higher - density living with smaller multifamily homes, especially along transit corridors in Vancouver's downtown peninsula.

«Local politicians have sought to increase town centre populations by encouraging the supply of high density urban housing on almost every available plot of land.

Neither stepped up the plate to say: «We need to switch to higher density urban land use patterns, and encourage mass transit and bicycles».