SUSTAINABLE URBAN LANDSCAPES Alternative Development Standards for Sustainable Communities
SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT Streetscape	Back
This view looking east down the proposed Beech Avenue shows how the community might feel if it were actually built.  The wide variety of dwelling types and sizes on this street is, to some extent, masked by the similarity in massing, height and detail of all the structures.  Common touches such as protected porches, front yard fences and hedges, similar roof pitches and overhangs, and similar window details all contribute to a powerful sense of unity - a hallmark of most desirable communities.  Yet the unity here is not one of exclusion.  It is not a unity of single incomes or homogenous lifestyles.  It is a unity that includes many different kinds of people in a cohesive community that is worth sustaining.