Esplanade Street as downtown Truro’s backyard:
This redevelopment concept
With Truro’s downtown continuing to urbanize, and more people moving into apartments and condos, Truro needs to work to preserve its small-town community feel into the future. A core piece of the archetypal small-town suburban lifestyle is the backyard: a place for family and friends to gather, for passive recreation, and for community members to take pride and ownership of. By encouraging interaction, both with the design, and among neighbors, these spaces can provide the community with the functions of a classic backyard, cultivating local identity.
Embracing principles of transit-oriented development optimizes the experiences of the train and possible future public transit for users, a drastic shift from the car dominated existing site. As well as encouraging walking and cycling, reducing car dependency is central to the design. This gives space for human scale spatial relationships, informing the division of spaces and functions through the long site.
