5. Preliminary precautions at neighborhood level

5.1 For densely-packed single-family housing

Diffuse individual housing generates a number of negative aspects for communities:

• high operating costs due to scattered services (road and network maintenance, public transport, school collection, waste collection, mail distribution, etc.);

• difficulty in ensuring a social and intergenerational mix, consumption of space, particularly rural space, energy and resources, soil sealing...

On the other hand, residential density has the advantage of encouraging more economical management of resources, space and travel. In order to halt the anarchic proliferation of buildings on the outskirts of cities, new development concepts must...