Aedas R&D

The ‘Tall Buildings Habitat’ application highlights how land use and urban density are affected by changes in location, scale and density of tall office buildings and clusters of them.

It also illustrates how different types of transportation schemes produce different patterns of urban growth. A private transportation model hinders the creation of urban centres and results in an over-emphasis on traffic axes, a lower distribution of traffic and less spill-over effect of services into the neighbourhood. A public transportation model promotes the development and connectivity between centres which creates distributed traffic and spill-over effects that also lead to a reduction of urban sprawl.