Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community
Building compactly with attractive designs is a practical approach to growth used in diverse places across the country. Compact development that uses land efficiently is integral to creating neighborhoods that offer convenience, value, and a high quality of life.
Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community (pdf) (2003) highlights the success of nine community-led efforts to create vibrant neighborhoods through compact design. It helps readers understand the connections between smart growth and density, introducing five time-tested design principles to ensure that density becomes a community asset and not a liability:
- Increase densities in appropriate locations.
- Connect people and places.
- Mix uses.
- Find parking alternatives that support density.
- Create great places for people.
This publication was a grant product of the Local Government Commission in cooperation with EPA and sponsored by the National Association of Realtors®.