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Langstaff Gateway aims to be a car-free mecca
Fri Mar 19 2010
Phinjo Gombu
Read More: http://www.thestar.com/yourcitymycity/article/782579
Project Details: http://www.scribd.com/doc/28651051/Langstaff-Gateway-project
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Peter Calthorpe likes to say that how far someone is willing to walk to reach public transit depends on how interesting the journey is. It’s that kind of thinking that got the California-based new urbanism planner and champion of the “walkable city†hired to design a revolutionary, transit-dependent live-work community in Markham.
Langstaff Gateway — built upward rather than outward — will raise the bar for suburban transformation, possibly across North America. On what is now a blighted, semi-industrial area south of Highway 407 and east of Yonge, it would house and employ 47,000 people in an area of just 47 hectares, a density unrivalled in the GTA outside downtown Toronto.
And two-thirds of those residents would rarely, if ever, use a car.
Calthorpe hopes to achieve that with such heretical ideas as limiting parking spots. The plan calls for a grand bike- and pedestrian-friendly boulevard that would bisect a community featuring a carefully organized mix of 50-storey skyscrapers, compact eight- to nine-storey apartment buildings and three-storey townhouses.
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Fri Mar 19 2010
Phinjo Gombu
Read More: http://www.thestar.com/yourcitymycity/article/782579
Project Details: http://www.scribd.com/doc/28651051/Langstaff-Gateway-project
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Peter Calthorpe likes to say that how far someone is willing to walk to reach public transit depends on how interesting the journey is. It’s that kind of thinking that got the California-based new urbanism planner and champion of the “walkable city†hired to design a revolutionary, transit-dependent live-work community in Markham.
Langstaff Gateway — built upward rather than outward — will raise the bar for suburban transformation, possibly across North America. On what is now a blighted, semi-industrial area south of Highway 407 and east of Yonge, it would house and employ 47,000 people in an area of just 47 hectares, a density unrivalled in the GTA outside downtown Toronto.
And two-thirds of those residents would rarely, if ever, use a car.
Calthorpe hopes to achieve that with such heretical ideas as limiting parking spots. The plan calls for a grand bike- and pedestrian-friendly boulevard that would bisect a community featuring a carefully organized mix of 50-storey skyscrapers, compact eight- to nine-storey apartment buildings and three-storey townhouses.
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