The document discusses principles of pocket neighborhood design including understanding the local context, providing multiple outdoor spaces from public to private, planning for the relationship between units, providing light while controlling views, mitigating less privacy with social connection, and reinterpreting conventional home programs to require less space. It also mentions that new housing development has primarily been on greenfield sites which has been wasteful and expensive, and that patterns of development have changed, leading to an opportunity for more sustainable compact neighborhoods designed according to these principles.