PEOPLE AND PASEOS
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BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER
FROM THE JANUARY 2022 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.
It?s likely a fantasy of any number of landscape architects: designing an entire neighborhood without having to consider a single car. Housing blocks separated not by wide, traffic-choked streets but by gentle, shaded paseos, or promenades. Apartments opening onto European-style courtyards. Every square foot of open space devoted to people.
Kristina Floor, FASLA, is building that dream. For the past two years, she and her team at Floor Associates, which is based in Phoenix, have been leading the site design for Culdesac Tempe, a 16-acre, 761-unit mixed-use development in Tempe, Arizona, in which private cars are prohibited. Made up of two- and three-story apartment buildings arranged around courtyards, the development has no garages, no ?parking podiums??the latest urban work-around that stashes all the parking on the first few levels of an otherwise banal development?and nothing you?d even call a street, which, as it turns out, leaves a lot of room for people space. ?What happens on so many projects, with the amount of parking you have to put in, is that most of your landscape is perimeter landscape or parking-lot landscape,? Floor says. At Culdesac, which is under construction and will open in summer 2022, Floor says they?re ?designing spaces fo...
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