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SYMBIOTIC DISTRICTS PORTLAND TOWARDS A BALANCED CITY Leverage Points
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Urban agriculture: growing on green spaces, greenways, rooftops and green walls
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Local farmers manage garden plots Water flows freely and is reused for irrigation Trails connect to city-wide network People have community spaces to gather in natural areas
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Neighborhoods are the right scale to accelerate sustainability – small enough to innovate quickly and big enough to have meaningful impact. Their varied behavior and characteristics are a asset providing resources to share across a city. For example, a district with ample sun exposure can fuel a downtown that consumes more than its solar potential. Together, they create balance and a city in symbiosis whose sum is greater than its parts.
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An urban, higher education district that provides a bounty of thought leadership, demonstration and innovation power, and resource capacity to support the city; it lacks student housing, a retail core, open space and an ability to provide its own energy, food, or water.
A new high-density, brownfield redevelopment is anchored by a regional medical research facility that is a model for sustainability and health and its community of high rise residential living minimize individual resource footprints; though walkable and open, the area suffers from a poor connection to the city, limited space dedicated to producing food, and the lack of a retail core with a dynamic mix of uses and affordable housing.
A mid rise office district in the central east side with excellent transit access and a well organized business community committed to investing in its future; it suffers from lack of residential buildings that create mixed-use activity or a culture of place or diversity due to the dominance of large-business and institutions.
A low density, low income, and diverse residential area in outer east Portland that suffers from years of poor urban planning and frequent flooding. With recent investments to improve the historic town center, transportation access, watershed health and urban farming, Lents has the potential to become a new model for suburban sustainability.
A former low-density suburb lies at the nexus of the region’s transportation system allowing it to hold on to the retail services that support its local residential communities and has an abundance of vacant land to manage and treat stormwater and provide urban habitat and food production; the neighborhood’s diverse immigrant populations are not integrated and a freeway severs the district’s connection to nearby residential neighborhoods
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Bold infrastructure interventions build towards a city living in balance. The redevelopment of a main street at the site of a regional transit station provides a rich street life based on pedestrians, bicycles, and public transport. Urban greenways created from abandoned freeways and green streets provide a new green city infrastructure for habitat, food, water and waste. In a net-zero energy and water community, local fuels power nodes of district energy that couple efficient mixed-use structures, and neighborhood water utilities capture, clean and reuse water arriving from the sky. The urban greenways, roof gardens, living walls, and use of the in between green spaces allow agriculture to be embedded into the community.
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Residential buildings use excess heat captured from supermarket refrigeration systems Geothermal conditioning loops extend across the neighborhood below ground connecting to heat pumps in buildings People, bikes, trains and buses dance in a multimodal system on streets where cars are prohibited Renewable energy production (solar and wind) integrates into the urban fabric
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“Thyme for change� holistic apothecary supports community health Charging stations power electric vehicles
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Systems for retention, detention and conveyance create an integrated stormwater network
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Rooftop container gardens grow organic vegetables Rain gardens, swales, and runnels capture, clean, and convey water Big box supermarket functions like produce, bakery, fish, poultry, meat, and dairy are oriented to outdoor public spaces and function like smaller individual markets
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People have community spaces to gather in natural areas
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Local venders sell local food
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22 Organic and local markets provide high-quality foods
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A regional transit station with buses, light rail, and streetcar deserves more than surface lots serving big boxes. Such large expanses of asphalt are ideal for new housing that brings people closer to transit and accommodates new models for small business. Imagine transforming a super block leftover from a Home Depot by transecting it with walkable green streets that serve bikes, people, urban agriculture, and treat stormwater while repurposing the building for a school, community center, or marketplace. The rooftops alone of this repurposed big box location can produce up to 4,400,000 kWh per year with solar power that would meet the electrical energy needs of 790 households (assuming an average daily use of 15 kWh).
How would you eat up an eight lane freeway? Six lanes of asphalt are digested into a greenway for biking, walking, and urban agriculture. Stormwater flows into runnels next to the remaining two lanes to be collected, treated and reused as freshwater in the neighborhood. Less pollution from less traffic makes the new natural corridor ideal for a set of plots for growing fruit and vegetables or producing dairy. Vendors serve food sourced from 100 feet away. Have you ever tasted a quarter mile carrot? With regional transit and improved bikeways, all Portland residents can access this greenway sans freeway.
Imagine going from an environment full of asphalt and fast moving traffic to a place for bees, bikes, babies, and birds. What would that place be like? It would be an ecologically supportive environment teeming with the most vulnerable residents of our planet. It is filled with pedestrians, bicyclists and public transport replacing autos. Copenhagen reminds us that bicyclists are not part of transport, they are part of public life. We have accommodations for commuter bicyclists and eight year olds out with their grandparents. One could imagine that every drop of water that falls on main street stays on main street or leaves cleaner than when it fell. In that sense, it defines an incremental watershed in anticipation of its role in developing a fully functioning EcoDistrict over a period of time. It is, simply, a place you would rather be that is good for you.
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SITE restoring a healthy coexistence with nature
Site instills a deep appreciation for place. Retail and residential uses intertwine around the regional transit system, building community in places that connect across the city. Vacant and underutilized land is used for its best purpose, housing retail services to support district communities or building natural refuges for habitat or food production. Dedicated natural spaces work to clean air and grow resources, safe from human interference.
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Connect a mix of uses and pathways through geographically appropriate infrastructure Accommodate all levels of users in bicycle networks and grade-separated pathways
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Gateway today is typical of an early low-density suburb with wide streets, large blocks, overabundant parking and limited pedestrian connectivity. It is one of the grayest districts in the entire city and the average resident travels 26.7 miles per day by car. In the future, Gateway’s super blocks and wide streets will be scaled to its residents providing better connections to the many services already in the district. Open spaces will provide urban habitat and agriculture. Gateway’s nexus as a regional transportation hub means that in the future, residents won’t need personal vehicles.
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creating water independent sites, buildings and communities
Water flows echo natural cycles, flowing along watersheds and into the Columbia and Willamette rivers. Impervious surfaces are minimized, aided by areas of increased infiltration that mimic the region’s historic forests. Precipitation levels define a community’s water use, and neighborhoods share water across wetter and drier parts of the city. Water is not a single use item, with potable water reused multiple times, treated naturally, and eventually released to recharge local aquifers.
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ENERGY 3 relying only on current solar income
Energy is a local equation. District energy captures efficiencies of scale in production and distribution, replacing resources pulled from across the state or further. Wind, water, waste and sun provide fuel, while the earth regulates temperatures in buildings on its surface. Through combining compatible uses, neighborhoods capture their own efficiencies and change behaviors in place to lighten energy needs.
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Today, the majority of Gateway’s energy comes from non-renewable grid power. In the future, district energy systems will produce 75% of power through local, renewable means with fuel from biomass and other renewable sources. The remaining 25% of power will come over the regional utility grid from entirely renewable resources. Vertical heat exchangers will link geothermal energy to horizontal heat exchangers connected through buildings and blocks. Renewable power generation will fill the rooftops of the district’s many large, institutional buildings.
HEALTH 4
maximizing physical and psychological health and well being
Health enters the public realm. Streets and pathways concentrate services for healthy lives and play host to natural systems that clean air and water. People stumble upon nature at every turn, interacting with lush plants, mountains and rivers to soothe the spirit and play home to other species. Neighborhoods do more than lessen threats to health, through abundant access and nature they give reason to be active and healthy.
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MATERIALS 5 endorsing products and processes that are safe for all species through time
Materials move in a cycle. Pacific Northwest forests form the base of a regional material system where most materials flow in a nutrient loop between forests and communities. The remaining demand reuses metals, glass and plastic in closed loops of salvage and recycling. A material’s production, use and disposal are free of toxic byproducts, creating clean industries and jobs for local residents.
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In Gateway today, materials arrive from around the world with little thought given to place of origin. Meanwhile, the district’s concentration of medical facilities and restaurants generates significant waste. In the future, materials consumed in building and eating will be indigenous to the region and small, locally owned businesses will buy from local suppliers. No waste will leave the region. Organic wastes will become fuel in anaerobic digesters. Medical facilities will coordinate waste management to process and treat biohazards, to then sell for raw material value.
EQUITY 6 supporting a just, equitable world
Equity is open for enrollment. Neighborhood stewardship unites communities around common goals. All residents have opportunities to benefit from community improvements without fear of losing their right to call it home. Outer neighborhoods are fully recognized as places to rival the city’s vibrant inner core. Neighborhood fabric is ripe with social eddies, creating a reason to stop and interact. Access becomes inevitable, with no barriers to clean air, sun or water.
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Beauty is a community that realizes and reflects itself. Peer-topeer education builds the foundation for a community’s spirit. Collective action by neighborhood associations, community groups or like-minded neighbors nurtures a neighborhood at many scales; from street to block to building. District improvements are in harmony with daily life; creating places where visitors wonder in awe at a neighborhood’s unique character.
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Organize around community goals Transform catalytic sites into centers of education for maximum impact
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Today, Gateway has an active citizen community that has led the conception and execution of several inspiring projects including Gateway Green, a regional park between two freeways, and the Gateway Education Center, a regional green jobs training center. In the future, even greater community organization and investment will expand these collaborations to more fully transform the neighborhood into the vision of its inhabitants.