In the heart of the city of Adelaide – just two streets south of Gouger Street and the Central Market – is a model eco-village called Christie Walk. Come on a guided tour of this unique urban community that was initiated by Urban Ecology Australia to demonstrate nature-friendly and people-friendly urban development.
Bookings essential.
Saturday March 12th 2022, 10:30am till noon.
This unique urban community of 27 dwellings includes apartments, standalone strawbale houses, and townhouses.
Sustainable design features include:
- passive solar design
- photovoltaic cells with battery storage
- solar hot water – flat plate and evacuated tubes
- composting
- underground stormwater storage
- community spaces – meeting room, laundry, bike shelter, produce garden, roof garden
Christie Walk was purpose-built to showcase how biodiversity, low emissions and community-living can be fashioned into a vibrant and verdant inner-city development.
Book now at Eventbrite.
In 2021 Urban Ecology Australia won the Carbon Neutral Adelaide award for Community Leadership, in recognition of three decades of campaigning, researching and educating on the transformation of conventional cities into Ecological Cities.
Christie Walk is a Carbon Neutral Adelaide Ambassador.
Chris sherlock
Hi, I would love to do a tour when I can, at this stahe it is only me so would need to tag along with a group.
Kind regards
Urban Ecology
Hi Chris, Thanks very much for your interest. We’ll be sure to publish details of future public tours here on our blog, and also on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/urbanecologyaustralia/
In preparation in the meantime you can do our virtual tours:
– Storyboard tour – https://www.urbanecology.org.au/portfolio/diy-storyboard-tour/
– Couch tour with mini-videos – https://www.urbanecology.org.au/portfolio/diy-couch-tour/
We also have a 10-episode story of the sustainability upgrades we’ve undertaken recently, starting here:
https://www.urbanecology.org.au/aiming-beyond-netzero-at-christie-walk/
Cheers, Brian – for Urban Ecology Australia