The Big Ideas Traditional neighborhoods have endured and include most of the truly prestigious places to live.
Traditional neighborhoods have common physical qualities which create hospitable places to live.
Traditional neighborhoods throughout the Americas are fundamentally the same. Iowa City is fortunate to have many neighborhoods which serve as great examples for the new neighborhood on the Peninsula property. Throughout the charrette process, the community and the design team arrived at a series of fundamental principles which adapt traditional neighborhood design conventions and local desires to this unique site. These big ideas will define the character of the Peninsula. A neighborhood grows complete with an identifiable center of its own and defined edges.