Studio exercise: Planning for growth in historic Concord, MA
Concord is a town of 17,000 located 18 miles northwest of Boston and within 30 minutes drive of downtown. Most famous for its role in the beginnings of the American Revolution and its litany of influential literary figures, Concord juggles its own historical identity with its modern place as a suburb of the rapidly growing Boston Metro area.
Under the fictitious Fair Growth & Development Act, Concord is expected to absorb 3,398 new residents by the year 2030. How do you add 20% population to a place that is very sensitive to change of any sort? What sort of housing typologies do you employ to accommodate the new residents? And where do you spatially distribute new development that inevitably has an effect on the visual landscape that residents prize so deeply? How can new growth enhance the existing built and natural environments, rather than detract from them?
In short, what happens when old, old suburbs mature?
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