Congratulations to the team for the “Uptown Brampton Transit-Oriented Communities Toolkit” project, which won a 2021 Award of Excellence from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA).
Project team members are:
- Yvonne Yeung, Head of Urban Design at City of Brampton
- Ken Greenberg, urban designer, city building advocate, and author
- UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki for City of Brampton, and
- The Urban Land Institute Toronto District Council
Project description
The Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) is the fastest growing Global City Region in North America, with two-thirds of the growth anticipated outside of the Toronto core, connected by rapid transit investments and lands owned by the province. Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC) are the leading direction to expand healthy, convenient, high-quality live-work-play along subways networks, Light Rail Transit (LRT) and across existing GO networks, creating a new form of “Regional City,” an affordable landing ground for new families to meet GTHA’s unprecedented population growth. With the right design, planning and execution, these TOC’s can unlock the value of a “26 hour City,” where the ability to walk to daily needs eliminates the high cost of commuting and car-ownership, providing “extra hours” everyday that improves quality of life and productivity, creates a nesting ground for high-quality jobs and employment, and moves our region towards a carbon-neutral future.
Uptown Brampton Transit-Oriented Communities Toolkit explores a collaborative city-building model to empower effective collaboration and alignment among public sector, private sector, non-profit and local communities. Through an integrated design-based strategic framework, the Toolkit aims to shift development culture and accelerate implementation by amplifying synergies, creating new combined benefits, and fostering lateral thinking.
About the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects and its Awards of Excellence
The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) is a professional organization with 2,348 landscape architect members, 615 associate (or intern) members and 669 student of landscape architecture members. As the voice of the profession in Canada, the CSLA is an advocate for its members on issues such as urban design, urban renewal, sustainable development, human health and well-being, climate change and cultural heritage.
CSLA announced the 14 recipients of its 2021 Awards of Excellence on April 7, 2021. Winners were selected by a national jury of landscape architects from 72 submissions.
“The award-winning projects highlight new approaches and illustrate the levels of expertise to be mobilized to address current social, cultural and environmental challenges.” – Bernard St-Denis, Chair of the 2021 CSLA Awards of Excellence jury
Visit the CSLA website for:
- The CLSA Awards of Excellence 2021 Winners
- Details of the Uptown Brampton Transit-Oriented Communities Toolkit project
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