Low carbon living: an alternative (sub)urban housing framework for a rapidly growing city
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2022-04-07
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Post-war immigration, along with the Baby Boom
dramatically increased metropolitan populations generating
a demand for new housing where suburbanization was the
solution. It is in part responsible for the contemporary
cities that we live in today, and that are now at the root
of the climate crisis. Suburban developments imposed
challenges of disconnections between neighbourhoods,
services, and amenities within cities that were solved with
the implementation of vehicles. This thesis project explores
new housing strategies that emphasize how low carbon
architecture and lifestyles can be implemented into growing
cities to minimize the impacts on climate change and avoid
the rampant disconnections of the urban fabric. A sustainable
urban development framework has been developed to create
a denser and more liveable neighbourhood in the context
of Barrie, Ontario, a rapidly growing bedroom community
outside of Toronto.
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Climate change, low carbon architecture, low carbon lifestyle, urban densification, housing