Greenleaf Gardens Landscape

The Greenleaf Garden Housing Community is one of the city’s low-income housing developments that is currently receiving a significant overhaul through the demolition of buildings and townhomes that are beyond the appropriate life cycle. In the interim, the D.C. Housing Authority seeks to make improvements with the shared landscape between residents to provide beautiful and safe outdoor gathering spaces. Throughout the project’s engagement process, residents raised concerns of violent crime, lack of personalization and authorship of their outdoor spaces.

JIMA Studio led the master plan for the network of outdoor spaces for Greenleaf Gardens, a three-block segment of the housing community. The landscape includes new circulation, play spaces and outdoor gathering with new trees, and play equipment. The overall strategy also considers principles of CPTED to limit visibility into private spaces where crime has been observed.  

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