Global Housing Studio-Toronto

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21st Century Garden Suburb Implying General Concept

• Town center: - Commercial and institutional buildings; - Central park; - Engagement of surrounding developments; • Greenbelt and boulevards • Self sustaining agriculture • Localize industry • Range of housing income levels • Mixed-use development • Efficient Transportation • Sustainability

In our study area, we identified a town center, which is connected to the natural feature, employment center, “take transit station, and advantage of institution by boulevards the existing and green ways. The natural feature existing Jane Street commercial corridor and utility will be enhanced. corridor” We also fully take advantage of the existing natural feature and utility corridor to create productive landscape, as a key component of self-sustained living community. We studied various aspects enabling us to finalize most suitable approaches for the study area.

Highway 400

STATION

INDUSTRIAL

Shoreham St

CENTER Driftwood St

BLACK CREEK

COMMERCIAL GREEN PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE EW CONNECTION

3 3

UTILITY CORRIDOR

GeneRAL ConCept General Concept

Steeles St

INSTITUTIONAL

Jane St

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After listing the issues to be addressed, let’s move on to applying our Garden Suburb approaches to the physical design. These are the key elements we extract from new Garden Suburb paradigm:

deploy of 21 Century Garden suburb Model The deploy of 21 Century Garden Suburb Model. Deploy of 21st Century Garden Suburb Model


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