42.50% - Dense cities done well have better parks, walkable streets, transit, and local businesses — density is enjoyable when it's designed intentionally.
30.00% - The denser a city, the more efficiently it functions — more people sharing infrastructure and public space is how cities create value; sprawl undermines that logic.
27.50% - A neighborhood zoned universally for triplexes barely changes the streetscape but allows three households where only one was legally permitted before — meaningful progress with minimal disruption.
There is an upper bound past which adding population to a fixed area creates costs faster than benefits.
50.00% - Uniform density from edge to center is badly designed — the goal should be a gradient, denser near transit and commercial centers, stepping down outward.
27.50% - Dense cities done well have better parks, walkable streets, transit, and local businesses — density is enjoyable when it's designed intentionally.
22.50% - A neighborhood zoned universally for triplexes barely changes the streetscape but allows three households where only one was legally permitted before — meaningful progress with minimal disruption.
50.00% - There is an upper bound past which adding population to a fixed area creates costs faster than benefits.
50.00% - Density planning should aim for an optimum rather than the maximum possible.
0.00% - Population density has a maximum ideal level.
0.00% - Cost economies, urban patterns and population density