The maximum population was fixed at a hundred thousand: more than that, and the advantages inherent in a small, compact community would be lost.

Further, since the process was man-power intensive, extended families tended to work together and live in compact communities.

Obviously, they don't need much air transport in such a compact community, and they have a good system of roads.

Some twenty-five minorities live in compact communities, each of which has a population of more than five thousand.

Baweans, working abroad form compact communities, some of which are known for over 150 years.

It is a place where the Amis are living in as a compact community.

One of the problems with the compact communities formed by interstellar travel is that nothing can be hidden.

South Australia is home to a small but compact Macedonian community.

Thus the village has turned from a compact community into what is largely a dormitory village.

It is a small, compact but thickly populated community with a projected 1997 population of twenty-five thousand people.