By Florian Camani, Mathilde Luguet & Marc-Antoine Durand

The expression “low-rise high-density” refers to the ensembles of grouped housing units that maintain characteristics of the individual home, but whose compactness facilitates collective services and amenities, thereby reducing land consumption. These hybrid projects also generate a variety of housing typologies and forms of agglomeration, opening up more sustainable and ecological alternatives. In Suburban Alternatives – Survey of Low-Rise High-Density Housing Projects in the United States, an atlas of 50 projects from across the United States, Florian Camani and Mathilde Luguet present their observations alongside essays by French and American researchers specialised in suburban areas and coordinated by Marc-Antoine Durand – an open reflection on the future of suburban living.