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When it comes to harmful air pollution, denser cities aren’t greener cities.
When it comes to harmful air pollution, denser cities aren’t greener cities.
Where urban planning is concerned, the conventional wisdom is that more compact cities are greener. While this may be the case for greenhouse gas emissions, new research on US cities from Sefi Roth and Felipe Carozzi find that denser cities are also more likely to have greater concentrations of harmful air pollution which can be detrimental to human health and well-being.
Air pollution is bad for us. We all […]