The following places are recommended so you can decide what works for increasing density in a single-family context.

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Considerations

PLANNING

   Kevin Lynch / Catherine Dee categories:

• Districts / Spaces
  • What are the spaces used for? How do you know?
  • What is their proportion & character
  • How are spaces between houses used?
  • How clear is the ownership of spaces?
• Edges:   Public - Private transitions:  who can enter where?  How do you know?
• Nodes:  Where do people interact?
• Paths:  Where are the cars?
• Landmarks:  how do you know you have arrived?

ARCHITEcTURE

• Does the place have curb appeal?  What aspects make you like it?How many chunks do you read in the massing?  What defines each chunk? (i.e. form, color, materials, openness...)
• How do they relate to human scale?  (measure places for people, draw a section & photograph)
• What are their proportions?
• How do the buildings mark entrance or areas of symbolic importance?
• How do they make connection or separation?

NATURE

• How does the landscaping shape space and contribute to the composition?
• Where does the water go?
• How are passive or active solar strategies used?
• Can you see how ventilation might work?