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PARKLANDS & URBAN PUBLIC REALM

WINDSOR ST. LINEAR TRAIL

The Windsor Street Linear Trail is a 950 metre long, linear park that traverses in a north-south direction through the inner-city suburbs of Parkside and Malvern in Adelaide.  Previously the site of an ageing open concrete stormwater drain, the park has been developed as an exemplar of urban sustainability and the creation of biodiversity within a suburban context.

Landscape Principles in Practice:

  • Value Our Landscape:  Design responds to physical, social and cultural characteristics of the suburban & broader landscape, using understanding of local ecosystems to enhance social and environmental functionality within a previously neglected suburban infrastructure corridor. 
  • Protect – Enhance – Regenerate:  Decision-making hierarchy based on environmentally respectful design and management processes which aim to protect and enhance existing landscape values while generating new possibilities for urban park and suburban landscape character in the future. 
  • Design with Respect: Design employs WSUD principles, habitat creation via indigenous revegetation, material and waste recycling, microclimate enhancement, food growing, low energy use and communication strategies to promote greater respect for the role of landscape and biodiversity in urban design solutions.
  • Design for the Future: The project promotes and communicates the implementation of biodiversity principles, the support of local ecosystems and the use of sustainable materials.  It provides a model for landscape design and retrofitting of the built environment which highlights the value of enhancing landscape performance in response to future challenges such as climate change.
  • Embrace Responsive Design:  The design promotes the values of local species, site specific design and low water use public space, broadening community understanding of the role of landscape architecture in developing more innovative, adaptable open space and urban design solutions.

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