Understand the idea.
Read one connected explanation, with links to the BBD pages and documentation behind it.
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Learn the work behind a neighborhood.
Explore how homes, local enterprise, learning and shared places support everyday life. Follow BBD’s connected model through clear explanations, varied worked examples and practice that helps you test your thinking.
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Understanding BBD’s Neighborhood Model
Explore how homes, local enterprise, learning, contribution and shared places connect through fourteen public lessons with worked examples and practice.
Start with the whole neighborhood, then explore contribution, ownership, design, funding, delivery and long-term care. Choose a lesson on its own or follow the connections through the full learning path.
Build understanding
Learn, try it, check your thinking.
Explore a real choice.
Compare space allocations, participation, material choices or project budgets using the information supplied in each example.
Check your reasoning.
Try the practice, then compare the sample answers and see what could change the choice.