Shawnee Park is not a community imposed on earth scraped bare;
it is integration and conservation development, introduced into and engaged with a mature, complete landscape. It honours the beauty of the Shaw-Nee Slopes Golf Course land and its value to the community by preserving more than 80% of established trees and providing up to 46% of open accessible space in the main residential park area (25% overall average) in a city where 10% is the development norm. Shawnee Park was always intended and designed to be sold and developed. Now, 20 years after the Shaw family’s stipulations made it possible, development is being undertaken in a rare and thoughtful fashion – carefully considered to cluster development, to respect the land and the neighbourhood, and to make a new community parkland accessible to a wide and varied group of Calgarians. Shawnee Park celebrates integrated, tree-oriented development, creating a balance where the living park and living in the park are one. Inspirations for Shawnee Park are many, but the idealism of the historic Garden City movement is important to note: Garden Cities were an early 20th-century response to the harsh urban living conditions endured by most Londoners. In a Garden City, a balance is struck between residences, nature and commerce to create a human-scale community that’s more peaceful and healthful. As they designed neighbourhoods, the proponents of the Garden City also wished to redesign daily life for the better. Shawnee Park, aligned with an increasing awareness of the desire to evolve traditional models and sensitive to the needs of a growing and maturing city, is the seed of Calgary’s development future.

For more information about Shawnee Park visit: www.shawneepark.ca.