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Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community

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) (3.94 MB)  (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®.

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Last updated on June 27, 2024
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