In its research paper, ‘The Density Dividend: solutions for growing and shrinking cities’, the Urban Land Institute (ULI) argues that the main reason why Birmingham should increase its population density is to meet housing need and to diversify the lifestyle offer. The city also needs to attract workers from the knowledge economy with an ’18-hour city’. The main challenge is that the concept of density is associated with sub-optimal urban developments constructed after World War II.

Source : October 2015/ULI/Birmingham/RES