SUSTAINABLE URBAN LANDSCAPES
The
Brentwood Design Charrette
The
neighbourhood grid is organized around working greens. Such greens
are significant not only because they provide useable open space
but, more importantly, because they form an integral part of the
site’s ecological infrastructure. Similarly, water management
is incorporated into the community structure through a system
of shallow, permeable water channels that form part of the neighbourhood
circulation system. This way of addressing the infiltration and
treatment of surface runoff further up the slope eliminates site
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Perspective
view of a medium density residential street. Row houses are
built on 20 foot (6.5 metre) wide free-hold lots with
party walls; compressed front yard set backs keep front doors
close to the street and leave enough room for a rear yard.
Narrow streets accommodate car traffic and street parking
and the shallow paved drainage channels help with surface
water management and calm traffic.
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