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Low Carbon Landscape Design Guide
Published by City of Toronto
This is the City of Toronto’s document, as published on its website on 20 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice
- Type
- Guide
- Published by
- City of Toronto
- Date
- March 2026
- For
- designer
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 63
Overview
Toronto's Low Carbon Landscape Design Guide, published in March 2026, a 63-page guide prepared by DTAH and Ha/f for City of Toronto planners and urban designers. It is written to help landscape architects apply life cycle assessment to site design and construction. Chapters cover carbon and landscape architecture, whole life carbon, LCA tools including Carbon Conscience, Pathfinder and One Click LCA, low carbon strategies by design and approvals phase, case studies of a private development landscape and a city park, and references.
What it covers
- Carbon and Landscape Architecture
- Purpose of the Guide
- Glossary
- Introduction to Whole Life Carbon
- The Carbon Life Cycle
- Sequestration and Carbon Storage
- Environmental Product Declarations
- LCA Tools - Overview and Application
- Carbon Conscience
- Pathfinder
- One Click LCA
- LCA Tools Comparison
- Additional LCA Software
- Low Carbon Design Strategies in Landscape Architecture
- General Strategies
- Strategies by Design & Approvals Phases
- Rezoning / Concept Design
- Site Plan Approval / Detailed Design
- Construction Drawings
- Case Studies
- Private Development Landscape
- City Park
- Assumptions for Case Studies
- Pathfinder Scorecards
- References and Resources
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