Urban Design, Planning and Housing

RESIDENSITY: A Carbon Analysis of Residential Typologies is the culmination of a seven-year study analysing nine building typologies to understand the relationships between building densities and the amount of land and infrastructure required to support them.

Antiquated and irrelevant or practical design tool? A visual indulgence and purely theoretical construct or does perhaps the Picturesque hold some clues to reconciling technical, economic and environmental imperatives with the need to design places for people?

This radical book aims to inject new insight and urgency into the discourse on the retrofitting of commercial and residential buildings in the face of the climate emergency. It is about the why, how and who should take the lead in revolutionising buildings in the face of serious climate and social change.

How Gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it.