Linkage of a particular site or property is its how it is physically connected to the general market, submarkets and trade area within which it competes for space users and/or market support.  Connectivity physically links the private with the public domain and connects different parts of a neighborhood and provides linkage to other submarkets or to major transportation corridors in the immediate environs

The community infrastructure provides linkage of a property to its immediate environment.  Linkage in a community takes numerous forms:

  • Vehicular connectivity – Circulation routes that facilitate traffic flows within and through a neighborhood;
  • Transit connectivity – Modes of public transit, including bus, light rail and railway transport facilities; and
  • Pedestrian connectivity – Walkways, bike routes and pedestrian zones.

Linkages support social interaction and exchange and are generally difficult to quantify.  They are affected by such qualitative dimensions of the linkage routes as lighting, traffic levels, types of uses, maintenance of uses, crime rates and other attributes that affect the quality of the connections.

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