What is Tactical Urbanism? Arts and urban consultant, Cara Courage, describes tactical urbanism as making small but impactful changes to the cultural and physical fabric of a city or town to improve the 芒鈧搖rban lived experience.芒鈧� These improvements can involve elements of art, nature, or community, among others. The elements are planned and introduced as […]
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Through its Department of Parks and Recreation, Prince George芒鈧劉s County is looking for ways to improve community health by developing a mobile application to aid in physical and mental wellness. This application will be used as a tool to promote and track the use of parks, trails, and open space and the reported impacts on […]
Prince George芒鈧劉s County Parks & Recreation builds, operates, and maintains a number of facilities with significant lifespans. To better understand the impact of capital investment and building code changes that might lead to reducing long term operating costs, the Department seeks a comparative analysis using available utilities usage data from six large, well established facilities. […]
The goal for this project was to create the early stages of a web development project for the Prince George芒鈧劉s County Parks and Recreation Department. Our team created the initial wireframe designs, identified problems for future aspects of the project, and provided recommendations for the next stages of development. The original project requirements included developing […]
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CSUSM students from AMD 421, Art and Social Change, under the direction of Dr. Kristin Moss and the Economic Development Team from San Marcos, California have been tasked with putting together a research report to aid in the development of a comprehensive public art master plan for San Marcos and the North City neighborhood. This […]
The semester was divided in 3 projects. For project 3, the studio worked with Prince George’s Planning Department on creating urban design schemes for the Prince George’s Plaza Transit District including analyzing relvevant case studies, site visit to Prince George’s Plaza, site documentation/analysis, and design proposals rooted from historical research while responding to complex contemporary […]
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During the Town+Gown:NYC’s Urban Resource Recovery Working Group鈥檚 development and refinement of its initiative, called Closing Loops City Program Initiative or CLCPI, to leverage the City鈥檚 capital program to close construction and demolition waste (CDW) material loops, using New York State Department of Environmental Conservation鈥檚 (NYS DEC) beneficial use designation (BUD) regulations, it became clear […]
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The Town+Gown:NYC’s Urban Resource Recovery Working Group has been developing an initiative to leverage the City鈥檚 capital program to close construction and demolition waste (CDW) material loops. It is called Closing Loops City Program Initiative or CLCPI. At several Working Group meetings, members raised the issue of needing CDW material and volume data to inform […]
The utilidor is an environmentally and financially sustainable infrastructural solution for subsurface public right of way (PROW) congestion, known as the 鈥渟ubsurface spaghetti鈥� problem, that has been created by utilities鈥� historical ad hoc practice of direct subsurface burial of transmission infrastructure. With the appropriate financial structure, the utilidor solution can capture the value of the […]
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The City of Sullivan has multiple plans for trail connectors throughout the city. ENVI460 students provided recommendations for a trail connector between the City of Sullivan and Sullivan County. This trail connector harnesses positives of both the city and county to increase use. Students also provided recommendations for multi-use options on the trail system. […]