SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES

While designing sustainable, it is also important to consider the region in with the design will be placed. A few of them are the land-use and regional settlement patterns, streets, and transportation systems. A sustainable community can be defined as a city, town, or neighborhood that is built in a way where the resources are used to its maximum potential. A community ought to seek a better development in the environment for the sake of mankind and the Mother Earth herself. 

In the 1990s the Smart Growth movement came about as a reaction to suburban sprawl. The purpose was to set guidelines to conserve communities. 

These rules are followed by 10 principles:

1. Create housing opportunities and choices that provide quality housing for people of all income levels.
2. Create walkable communities in places that are desirable to live, work, learn, worship, and play.
3. Encourage community and stakeholders collaborations to where it is desired to develop growth.
4. Foster distinctive attractive communities with a strong send of place which will later give the community a response to architectural beauty and distinctiveness.
5. Make development decisions predictable, fair, and cost-effect to be embraced by a private sector.
6. Mix land uses because it is a critical component in achieving better places to live.
7. Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty, and critical environmental areas to improve the quality of life and guiding new growth in the communities.
8. Provide a variety of transportation is key.
9. Strengthen and direct development towards existing communities already served infrastructure seeking to conserve irreplaceable natural resources
10. take advantage of compact building design, rather than incorporating compact as an alternative.

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