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Families with young children will always want to live in a house with a garden. We can build high-density residential neighbourhoods by varying the mix of housing types. The right balance can provide compact neighbourhoods, green spaces, and enough people to support local transport services and local businesses.

This is hardly a new finding though. Go back sixty years to the 1949 housing manual (published in Britain by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Works) and you'll find it identifies this very approach. See here for an example

http://homesdesign.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/high-density-layout-1949-housing-manual.png

Last year, MJP Architects also produced a report called Sustainable Suburbia that discussed high density housing in a green setting ("a walkable garden suburb"). This formed part of an exhibition at New London Architecture and you can see the exhibition panels here:

http://www.sustainablesuburbia.co.uk/

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