[1] It has been shown that property values are an important attribute in choosing a neighborhood and a home. In a study done in a suburban community near Columbus, Ohio, property values and neighborhood status were rated as sixth in importance out of a total of seventeen various attributes. Among the factors rated less important than property values were public school system, proximity and quality of shopping areas, property taxes, proximity to friends and employment, and levels of traffic noise. See Douglas S. Bible, "Home-Buyer Preference in a Midwestern Metropolitan Area," Appraisal Journal 47:2 (April, 1979): 282-286.

[2]Randall G. Arendt, "Patterns in the Rural Landscape," Orion Nature Quarterly 8:4 (Autumn, 1989): 22.

[3] For a full treatment of the distribution and types of open spaces throughout the Radburn development see Clarence S. Stein, Toward New Towns for America (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1957) 36-73.

[4] Mark R. Correll, Jane H. Lillydahl, and Larry D. Singell, "The Effects of Greenbelts on Residential Property Values: Some Findings on the Political Economy of Open Space," Land Economics 54:2 (May, 1978): 207-217.

Tom Fox, Urban Open Space - An Investment That Pays (New York: Neighborhood Open Space Coalition Monograph Series, 1990.

[5] See Sanford R. Goodkin, Higher Density Housing - Planning, Design, Marketing (Washington: National Association of Homebuilders, 1986) 96. In this comparison between conventional and cluster plans, total site-development costs for street pavement, curbs/gutters, street trees, driveways, storm drainage, water distribution, sanitary sewer, grading, clearing/grubbing, and sidewalks were reduced by 34% for the cluster plan.