Greening the Transect: Seeing Things Wholeactrees.org/files/Research/SmartGrowth/327a.pdf · •...
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Greening the Transect:Seeing Things Whole
2007 New Partners forSmart Growth Conference
Lynn Desautels, Ph.D.US EPA Smart Growth Program
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Understanding the green infrastructure of a place
Can guide smart growthCan guide smart conservation
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Smart Growth
• Creates great places to live, work, and walk• Provides lots of housing and transportation
options• Capitalizes on existing infrastructure • Protects open space and working lands
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Guided by 10 Principles• Mix land uses• Take advantage of compact
building design• Create a range of housing
opportunities and choices• Create walkable neighborhoods• Foster distinctive, attractive
communities with a strong sense of place
• Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty, historic buildings, and critical environmental areas
• Strengthen and direct development towards existing communities
• Provide a variety of transportation choices
• Make development decisions predictable, fair, and cost effective
• Encourage community and stakeholder collaboration in development decisions
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Smart Growth as currently practiced
Doesn’t always integrate the design opportunities inherent in a green
infrastructure approach
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What is green infrastructure?
The natural environmental backbone of a place
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What is green infrastructure?
Habitat for plants and animals
Life support services for everybody
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Green Infrastructure
The interconnected network of land and water that sustains all life
www.greeninfrastructure.netjointly sponsored by the USDA and The Conservation Fund
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Sometimes we work carefully with the natural landscape
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Many times, we don’t
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Green InfrastructureDesign Principles
• Make the natural landscape a fundamental design element in regional and community development
• Incorporate or mimic natural landscape function at all appropriate scales
• Use green infrastructure assessments to guide both conservation and development
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Translation
• In paved, developed areas, work with “soft path” engineering approaches to restore or mimic natural function where appropriate
• In areas targeted for conservation, work to protect or restore natural corridors and hubs
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Examples
• Reclaiming abandoned rail corridors for parks and stormwater management
• Restoring urban forest canopies and planting street trees to thrive for the long term
• Designing urban parks to provide environmental as well as recreational services
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Examples
• Green roofs (new and retrofitted)• Reclaimed waterfronts with natural buffers• Daylighting and restoring urban streams• Streets retrofitted with rain gardens and
other “natural” stormwater management strategies
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Examples
• “Green prints” that define at a regional and local level
– what areas to protect, reconnect, and/or restore– what areas to develop
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The Transect
Duany Plater-Zyberk & Companywww.dpzcom/transect_articles.htm
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Why bother?
• Environmental benefits
• Economic benefits
• Community benefits
• Health benefits
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A room with a view
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A room with a view
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Many examples
• Emeryville, CA• Portland, OR• Seattle, Washington• Chicago, Illinois• Chicago Wilderness• Salishan, Tacoma,
WA
• Florida Greenways• New Jersey Open
Space program• State of Maryland • Montgomery County,
MD
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Many Examples
• Lloyd’s Crossing, Portland, WA
• High Point, Seattle, WA
• Baldwin Park, Orlando, FL
• Stapleton, CO• Sonoran Desert
Conservation Plan
• Noisette Preserve and Community Master Plan, N. Charleston, SC
• The Cascade Agenda• Metro Greenways,
MN• MidAtlantic
Highlands Inititiave
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Different words for similar things
• High performance natural infrastructure• Light imprint new urbanism• Green urbanism• Sustainable Urbanism• Low Impact Development (LID)• LEED-ND
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Scale matters
• REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE
• Sharon Pfeifer Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Metro Greenways Program
• CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD PERSPECTIVE
• Marshall Foster Mithun Architects and Planners, Seattle WA