Abstract
This study evaluates the environmental and economic effectiveness of high-rises and high-density urban structures in Tokyo. The adopted approach aims to enable production of open spaces and green areas by effective spatial utilization of lands and realize environmental improvement in limited spaces. The proposed evaluation model includes economic and environmental criteria. Economic indicators are composed of the construction costs of high-rise structures and the economic value of the relaxed plot ratio generated by the high-rises. The green spaces created by high-rise structures are evaluated as an environmental indicator. These indicators are adopted and integrated for a sustainability assessment. The proposed model is then tested by applying it to some case studies in the Nihonbashi Tokyo area, and various scenarios are analyzed by changing the parameters used. The results show that the high-rise and high-density urban structures would likely bring about positive economic effects through the relaxation of volume ratio in policy standards.
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This work was supported in part by Grant in Aid for the “Development of simulation models for study of long life housing and sustainable urban infrastructure” from the Association for Sustainable Building Systems in Japan.
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Takahashi, C., Nonaka, T., Nakano, M. (2017). Sustainability Assessment of High-Rise and High-Density Urban Structures. In: Matsumoto, M., Masui, K., Fukushige, S., Kondoh, S. (eds) Sustainability Through Innovation in Product Life Cycle Design. EcoProduction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0471-1_58
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