Incremental Infill
Cost-effective solutions for infill housing in areas of transition between singles and mid-rise structures.
Townscape is a member of a collaborative team working on design guidelines for the byway on behalf of New Castle County. Visit the County’s website for more information.
Townscape recently completed a housing study for Downtown Frederick Partnership in order to identify strategies for infusing new housing in the downtown. Visit the Partnership’s website.
Renn, a key component of the East Frederick redevelopment, will include 1,050 new homes and 105,000 square feet on non-residential development in a traditional neighborhood pattern consistent with the historic framework found in downtown. As a member of the design team headed by Duany, Plater-Zyberk & Company, Townscape provided town planning, outreach, expert witness testimony, urban design and landscape design services.
Townscape provided expert planning testimony during the controversial special exception process for this redevelopment project in the Twinbrook Metro area.Greencourt will provide a progressive workplace enviroment for companies supporting the Food and Drug Administration. Image courtesy of McInturff Architects..
In 2013, the Town of Emmitsburg embarked on a revitalization effort for their downtown. Townscape provided landscape, planning, wayfinding and urban design expertise on a multi-disciplinary team headed by Seth Harry and Associates.
Integrated clean energy technologies and community-scaled power are potential solutions to grid vulnerability. Our office responded to the Governor’s Executive Order on this issue and presented a strategic approach at the APA Regional Conference.Download Presentation
Brunswick, Maryland
Townscape Design assisted CORE Development in conceiving a new shopping district, community center, marketing center and entry sequence for their newest community in Brunswick, Maryland. The community has received strong market acceptance. Visit Brunswick Crossing’s website.
– Winston ChurchillSuccess is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Ian L. McHarg, Design with Nature, 1969The work is abundant, we require only a deference born of understanding to fulfill man’s promise. man is that uniquely conscious creature who can perceive and express. He must become the steward of the biosphere. To do this he must design with nature.
– Thomas Sharp, The Anatomy of the Village, 1946A study of the principles of design, whether they were conscious or unconscious, which have given our villages their beauty, their charm and their character, may well elucidate principles that will be useful in our new building.
– Dhiru A. Thadani, The Language of Towns and Cities, 2010I believe that society must return to basic principles of urbanism, and we collectively must stop wasting resources on untested, technocratic solutions. Only then will cities continue to serve future generations as centers of culture, innovation, and discourse of humankind.
– Leon KrierThe forms of present buildings and settlements are largely the product of an intemperate use of petrochemical energies, of synthetic materials, and industrialized mass production. Traditional towns and villages instead depend essentially on the use of natural local resources and materials, on individual manpower and skills.
– Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language, 1977Patterns (of towns and communities) can never be “designed” or “built” in one fell swoop – but patient piecemeal growth, designed in such a way that every individual act is always helping to create or generate these larger global patterns, will, slowly and surely, over the years, make a community that has these gobal patterns in it.
– Douglas FarrAll sustainability is local.
– Albert EinsteinIf a physical theory can’t be explained to a child, it’s probably worthless.
– -UN Brundtland Commission, March 20, 1987Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
– Richard BurdickLawns use more equipment,labor, fuel, and agricultural toxins than industrial farming, making lawns the largest agricultural sector in the United States.
– William Whyte, The Last LandscapeOur (town) planning should take its cue from the patterns of nature itself – the water table, the floodplains, the ridges, the woods, and above all, the streams.
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“Perhaps the most famous volume on traditional town planning is Raymond Unwin’s 1909 classic Town Planning in Practice: An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs. The title is well chosen, because Unwin clearly approached his subject from an artistic point of view, a perspective that is sadly deficient in our profession today.”
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