Shawnee Park Development.
Living Landscape, Livable Landscape
Shawnee Park, in the Shawnee Community, is the evolution of a private property from its current use as a golf course into a residential community. This final chapter in the history of the site takes it from a single, limited use to a shared landscape that can be enjoyed by everyone and accommodate a variety of lifestyles. It makes a living landscape also a livable landscape, providing more accessible open space per residence, and preserving a greater percentage of open space per acre, than any suburban development in Calgary.
“The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.”
– Frederick Law Olmstead,
Designer of New York’s Central Park, circa 1865