Browse Fact Sheets by topic: Estate Design
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Walkable neighbourhoods
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- posted 25 Aug 2008
Walkable neighbourhoods have implications for sustainability because developments that are walkable reduce incentives to drive, conserve scarce resources, and lower environmental impacts.
Co-author: Leah Mason
- Categorised under:
- Planning, Design,
- Greenfield Development,
- Place Making and Social Sustainability, Estate Design, Access and Transport,
- Developer, Designer,
Design for a mix of uses
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- posted 11 Jun 2008
A mix of uses within a neighbourhood enhances the livability and sustainability of a new development. The incorporation of various non-residential uses, such as retail, business and community facilities, within the residential development, can reduce reliance on private vehicles, provide for local working opportunities and enhance the interaction between residents.
A variety of housing types associated with mixed use developments (eg. Shop top housing) can also encourage affordability and allow residents the opportunity of progressing through different cycles of life within a single neighborhood, avoiding situations of isolation and gentrification.
- Categorised under:
- Planning, Design,
- Greyfield Development, Brownfield Development,
- Place Making and Social Sustainability, Estate Design,
- High Density, Medium Density,
- Developer,
Design for Open Space
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- posted 16 Sep 2008
New residential estates need an integrated and connected open space network that meets the needs of residents and surrounding habitats and to provide a variety of recreational opportunities whilst addressing local catchment and stormwater management needs. Within an estate, open space provides opportunities to preserve and enhance natural elements of a site, facilitate social interactions and encourage a healthy lifestyle.
Community Engagement
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- posted 27 May 2008
This fact sheet is designed to help small to medium-sized builders and developers find appropriate ways of engaging with communities about their proposed sustainable developments, while taking into account the complexity of sustainability options. It’s about how to get started, rather than the whole community engagement process with all the detailed planning.
EcoVillages
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- posted 08 Jul 2008
EcoVillages intend to demonstrate transformative eco-socio-economic spiritual community.
This fact sheet provides a working knowledge of Sustainable Community Development (SCD), especially EcoVillages and considers SCD opportunities for the development industry.
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- Place Making and Social Sustainability, Estate Design,
Cohousing
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- posted 10 Jul 2008
Cohousing is a major strategic category of the movement back to community known as ‘Intentional Community’. Both the community and the intention are critical to understanding and implementing such projects.
- Categorised under:
- Feasability, Planning, Design,
- Place Making and Social Sustainability, Estate Design,
- Developer, State Government, Designer,
Biodiversity in urban developments
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- posted 15 Jul 2008
Urban biodiversity exists in parks, street plantings, private gardens, vacant lots and along waterways. With development, urban environments can change quickly and dramatically because they are designed, constructed, managed and controlled by humans. It is important to understand the impacts and interactions of humans, the built form, and residual and emergent biodiversity.
- Categorised under:
- Planning,
- Greenfield Development,
- Site Ecology, Estate Design, Water Management, Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation,
- Developer,
Sense of place and community ownership
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- posted 11 Jul 2008
This fact sheet examines the issues of sense of place using a case study of various aspects of the Ellenbrook development in Western Australia. This development has won several prestigious awards for its design and community engagement processes and serves as a role model for greenfield development projects in Australia.
- Categorised under:
- Feasability, Planning, Design, Lot Creation,
- Greenfield Development,
- Place Making and Social Sustainability, Estate Design,
- Developer,
Transit Oriented Development
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- posted 29 May 2008
Transit Oriented Developments, or TODs, are generally higher density, mixed use developments, located along major public transport (PT) corridors and generally centred on major transport nodes (bus and train stations, interchanges, etc). TODs are designed to encourage more sustainable transport behaviour through encouraging reduced reliance on motorised private motorised transport, encouraging pedestrian mobility and synergies between complementary mixed land uses.
- Categorised under:
- Estate Design, Access and Transport,
- High Density, Medium Density,
- Developer,
Built Form
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- posted 14 May 2008
Sustainable development is reliant on a synthesis of elements - achieving a built form which is supportive of the environmental, social, and economic elements of sustainability, delivered through appropriate development planning, public realm (urban) design, landscaping, and architectural design, engineering and construction, marketing and education, as well as the provision of urban systems and infrastructure.
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- Planning, Design, Construction,
- Estate Design,
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