Author: Elizabeth Brabec
This paper analyzes the success of protected open spaces in fifteen suburban residential developments across the United States. Using case studies from five regions across the country, neotraditional, conservation and conventional residential developments are analyzed and compared for their habitat, recreational, visual landscape quality and water quality goals. The paper identifies and analyzes the original open space and green infrastructure protection goals of the developments and their outcomes, along with pre-and post-development forest stand and open space protection success.
Brabec, Elizabeth. 2009. An Evaluation of Open Space Quality in Suburban Residential Communities: A comparison of neotraditional, cluster and conventional developments. ACSP 5th Anniversary Conference, Reinvesting in America: The New Metropolitan Planning Agenda, Crystal City, Virginia, October 1-4, 2009, p. 51-52