Place petal

The intention of the Place Petal is to realign how people understand and relate to the natural environment that sustains us. It highlights the threat of sprawl but warns against overly dense urban centres. It advocates for the restoration of previously disturbed environments and invite nature back in.

The International Living Future Institute states:

“The Living Building Challenge® envisions a moratorium on the seemingly never-ending growth outward, and a focus instead on compact, connected communities with healthy rather than inhumane levels of density—inherently conserving the natural resources that support human health and the farmlands that feed us, while also inviting natural systems back into the daily fabric of our lives.”
For a project to satisfy the Place Petal, it must deliver on a range of related criteria covering on-site landscaping, biodiversity, mandatory agricultural requirements such as area for food production, habitat exchange offsets and provision of pedestrian and cycle access, among others

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Place Petal