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Renewal SA | 7 and strong linkages to surrounding areas. Ev- erything is very integrated and open, which is what people want.” “We fundamentally believe that people yearn for a more compact living setting,” he explains. “They want a place where they can walk to the grocery store, or walk to the cof- fee shop, or walk to a wine bar. They want to be able to conveniently meet with friends and family. They want to be part of a com- munity.” Fred admits that traditional wisdom in the development sector says the opposite of that. He says the common line of thinking is that people want quarter-acre lots with single homes. When Fred was a Thinker- in-Residence, the Property Council com- missioned a “study of attitudes” within the greater Adelaide area that sought to measure that demand. “The results were interesting,” Fred says. “About a third of the respondents said they had no interest in living in a more dense area. Another third said they would be interested