The residential buildings are intentionally set back from the shopping level. This achieves a layered transition between public and private space, optimises views, and preserves natural light and openness at street level.
Corporate Social Investment Barlow Park addresses South Africa’ s entrenched spatial inequalities through integrated urban design. The mixed-use strategy ensures equal access to services, amenities and green spaces, features often denied to marginalised communities.
Historically, apartheid planning fractured the urban fabric, isolating low-income populations from economic nodes. Barlow Park reverses this by weaving affordable housing, schools, parks, and retail into one cohesive neighbourhood.
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