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The Landscape Performance Series Fast Fact Library is a searchable collection of landscape benefits derived from published research. Each includes a citation and links to the full article when available.

This resource is intended to showcase landscape’s multiple and sometimes surprising environmental, economic and social benefits and to help you make the case for sustainable landscape solutions in your community, with your clients, or on Capitol Hill.

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2009
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Conservation subdivision design, a greenfield development practice that utilizes the site analysis methods common to landscape architecture to preserve significant portions of environmentally precious land, was shown to produce a higher 5-year appreciation rate for homes compared to traditionally developed subdivisions (10.85% vs. 4.35%) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Bowman, Troy, Colletti, Joe, Thompson, Jan, (2009) Valuation of open space and conservation features in residential subdivisions. Journal of Environmental Management 90, 321-330.
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In a Cedar Rapids, Iowa study, 66% of survey respondents living in both traditional and conservation subdivisions were willing to pay a premium for conservation features, at an average of $4,343.
Bowman, Troy, Colletti, Joe, Thompson, Jan, (2009) Valuation of open space and conservation features in residential subdivisions. Journal of Environmental Management 90, 321-330.
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Well-designed integration of conservation features positively affect home values. In a study of 6 subdivisions in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, open space added an average of $462 to standard subdivision homes and $17,082 to conservation subdivision homes.
Bowman, Troy, Colletti, Joe, Thompson, Jan, (2009) Valuation of open space and conservation features in residential subdivisions. Journal of Environmental Management 90, 321-330.
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