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Note From The Editor, Vicente Del Rio
Note From The Department Head, William Siembieda
The College Of Architecture And Environmental Design Awards And Special Projects
The College Of Architecture And Environmental Design Awards And Special Projects
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Low Income Housing In Brazil: The Case Of Sao Sebastiao, Flavio Malta
Low Income Housing In Brazil: The Case Of Sao Sebastiao, Flavio Malta
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In the winter of 2006, the CRP department received visiting researcher Flavio Malta from Brazil. He presents us with an overview of one of the most challenging planning problems faced by Brazilian cities: the exploding housing demand for the poor and the conflicts that it generates. Through the case of São Sebastião municipality, in São Paulo, he discusses some of the issues he deals with in his job as a city planner: the control of illegal settlements and the production of low income housing in a city which depends on tourism development and is located in an environmentally protected coastal …
Cal Poly's Symposium On Urban Disaster Risk Reduction And Regeneration Planning: An Overview, Christina Batteate
Cal Poly's Symposium On Urban Disaster Risk Reduction And Regeneration Planning: An Overview, Christina Batteate
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From November 3 to 5, 2005 the City and Regional Planning and the College of Architecture and Environmental Design promoted the International Symposium on Urban Disaster Risk Reduction and Regeneration Planning: Integrating Practice, Policy and Theory. Christina Batteate presents an overview of these three intense days when more than thirty leading professionals from the US and abroad presented their work and their views, and participants were able to engage in important discussions. FOCUS has also published a special issue with the complete proceedings of the symposium.
Expanding Housing Choices, Conserving Coastal Counties, R. Thomas Jones, A.I.A.
Expanding Housing Choices, Conserving Coastal Counties, R. Thomas Jones, A.I.A.
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In this article, Dean Jones discusses housing choices in California, one of the themes around which he built his professional career. He is a long time advocate of and has been directly involved with socially and environmentally responsive design, affordable housing, community planning, and smart growth. He co-authored the book “Good Neighbors: Affordable Family Housing” (McGraw Hill, 1995).
Sustainability And Interdisciplinary Education: Planning And The Caed Sustainable Environments Program, Paul Wack
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For the past fifteen years, through an interdepartmental effort, the College of Architecture and Environmental Design has been offering an interdisciplinary minor on Sustainable Environments. CRP professor Paul Wack, a devoted co-founder and one of its most popular instructors, writes about this unique and popular initiative which recently received a national educational award from the American Institute of Architects.
Bank Of America Low-Income Housing Challenge: Cal Poly's Team Is The 2005 Winner!, D. Gregg Doyle
Bank Of America Low-Income Housing Challenge: Cal Poly's Team Is The 2005 Winner!, D. Gregg Doyle
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In what has become a tradition in Cal Poly, an interdisciplinary team of graduate students from the departments of City and Regional Planning, Architecture, Business, and Construction Management, coached by assistant professor Doyle, participated in the Bank of America´s Low Income Housing Challenge. In 2005 they upset all other participants such as Berkeley and Stanford, and made us proud by bringing back home the trophy for the first place!
New Public Transit System For Accra, Ghana, Cornelius Nuworsoo
New Public Transit System For Accra, Ghana, Cornelius Nuworsoo
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Cornelius Nuworsoo joined the CRP department in 2005 and specializes in transportation planning. He developed the full concept for a city-wide rapid transit system for Accra, capital city of Ghana. The system was adopted by government officials and the World Bank has recently approved a loan to the Government of Ghana for a demonstration program as the first step in plan implementation.
Mcrp Community Planning Graduate Studio 2005/06: King City Community Plan, Cornelius Nuworsoo, Kenneth Topping
Mcrp Community Planning Graduate Studio 2005/06: King City Community Plan, Cornelius Nuworsoo, Kenneth Topping
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During the current academic year, the City and Regional Planning Department graduate Community Planning Studio is engaged in important community-outreach that will make a difference in King City CA. Nuworsoo and Topping, the class instructors, resume the studio's pedagogy and do a brief discussion of the process and progress of this year's work in King City. In next year's issue, FOCUS will publish the final results of this important studio.
Park Marina Area Concept Plan: Riverfront Revitalization In Redding, Ca, Sean Nicholas, Vicente Del Rio
Park Marina Area Concept Plan: Riverfront Revitalization In Redding, Ca, Sean Nicholas, Vicente Del Rio
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Through a community outreach effort and in a true learn-by-doing fashion, in winter 2005 CRP´s Graduate Planning Project Lab developed a concept plan for the revitalization of an important riverfront area in Redding, CA. Their vision and proposals were successful in responding to all stakeholders´ expectations, and received full support from the local community. The design process included an innovative on-line survey which guaranteed significant inputs from the community.
Making All The Difference - Using Higher Education In Planning King City's Future, Doreen Liberto-Blanck
Making All The Difference - Using Higher Education In Planning King City's Future, Doreen Liberto-Blanck
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One of the fundamental roles of universities is to contribute to community development and social equity. Liberto-Blanck, a lecturer at Cal Poly´s City and Regional Planning Department and King City community development director, discusses her job, the urgent needs that the city is facing, and the importance of the CRP department community-outreach pedagogy and of the contributions represented by ongoing student work.
Revisiting Hampstead Garden Suburb: A (Cautionary) Tale Of Spatial Determinism, Umut Toker, Zeynep Toker
Revisiting Hampstead Garden Suburb: A (Cautionary) Tale Of Spatial Determinism, Umut Toker, Zeynep Toker
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Hampstead Garden Suburb has become an example of how a social agenda had initiated a new settlement and eventually had disappeared to yield an empty shell with tree-lined streets and picturesque image. Due to the similarities between the garden suburb concept and the new urbanist ideals, the story of Hampstead Garden Suburb is discussed as a cautionary one, despite the remarkable accomplishments of the individuals involved in its development.
Singing River Island, Post-Katrina: Proposals For The Naval Station, Pascagoula Mi, Mike Austin, Alice Mueller
Singing River Island, Post-Katrina: Proposals For The Naval Station, Pascagoula Mi, Mike Austin, Alice Mueller
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In the fall 2005 lecturer Alice Mueller got her architecture and city planning studios collaborating in developing design contributions for redeveloping efforts in Pascagoula, Mississippi in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. This innovative interdepartmental collaboration generated proposals for redeveloping Singing River Island and reutilizing its Pascagoula Naval Station, closed by a Federal administration decision.
Cool Cities - Urban Design Competition: Urban Revitalization In Jackson, Mi, Craig Minus
Cool Cities - Urban Design Competition: Urban Revitalization In Jackson, Mi, Craig Minus
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In 2005 a team of CRP students was one of the finalists in the Cool Cities urban design national competition for the revitalization of an area in downtown Jackson, MI. The team developed a strong and feasible proposal marked by its contextual design. In this article, Craig Minus, one of the participants, writes about the competition and comments on their design vision and on the major features of their competition entry.
Sustainable Development, Tourism, And Preservation: An International Project In Copan, Honduras, Richard Rojas
Sustainable Development, Tourism, And Preservation: An International Project In Copan, Honduras, Richard Rojas
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For one week in the fall of 2005, a team of CRP and LARCH professors and students from the City and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture departments traveled to Copan, Honduras to collaborate with university students, professionals, government officials, and community members in a concept plan for the sustainable development of the Copan River Valley Region. Within this valley is the modern town of Copan Ruinas and an archaeological park containing Mayan ruins that is designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Creating A Vision For East Ventura, Ca: University, Community, And Professional Partnership, Katherine Pelton, Jonathan Schuppert
Creating A Vision For East Ventura, Ca: University, Community, And Professional Partnership, Katherine Pelton, Jonathan Schuppert
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During fall and winter quarters BSCRP students get through the Community Planning Labs series, two studio-based courses designed to simulate a professional-like environment in responding to community-outreach projects. In 2005-06 one of this class sessions developed a plan for the Saticoy-Wells community in conjunction with the city of Ventura and consultants Crawford, Multari & Clark, and relied on strong input from local residents and developers.
Learning About Urbanism And Life In Brazil, Aaron Brownwood, Karlo Felix, Leah Price, Aron Nussbaum
Learning About Urbanism And Life In Brazil, Aaron Brownwood, Karlo Felix, Leah Price, Aron Nussbaum
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In 2005 a total of six Cal Poly students participated in the CRP department´s exchange program with the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. This was the largest contingent of Cal Poly students in Brazil over a single academic year and also included students from the Landscape Architecture Department, what proves the success of this exchange program. CRP students Aaron, Karlo and Leah, and LA student Aron Nussbaum share their thoughts about academic and life experiences in Brazil.
A Taste Of Life In Honduras, Todd Fawley-King
A Taste Of Life In Honduras, Todd Fawley-King
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Experiencing beautiful tropical landscapes, beaches, and pine forests, and the life in the capital city Tegucigalpa, Todd Fawley had a wonderful time in Honduras. During his participation in CRP´s exhange program with the Centro de Arquitectura y Construcción (CEDAC), he learned from his classes but also gained a new perspective of the world and learned the secrets of a slower rhythm of life.
Conversations With Alumni
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In this issue FOCUS brings you an exciting interview with four CRP alumni who work for EDAW, a private international design, environment, and planning consulting firm, that is consistently ranked among the world’s leading design firms. Nick Haskell (Principal and Studio Co-Leader), Clark Williams (Associate), Colleen Hart (Planner), and Sierra Russell (Planner) are part of EDAW´s Planning and Urban Design Studio in the San Francisco office, one of the firm´s 25 locations throughout the United States, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Theses Abstracts
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This section brings a reference list of all MCRP theses and professional projects that have been defended in the City and Regional Planning program since the last issue of Focus published in April 2005. They represent the research and professional interests of faculty and students. These works may be consulted in the CRP department, at Cal Poly´s Kennedy Library, or through inter-library loan.
Life After Cal Poly: Moving Beyond The Classroom, Christopher Jordan
Life After Cal Poly: Moving Beyond The Classroom, Christopher Jordan
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In this article Chris Jordan writes about his work at PMC, a large planning consultancy firm based in Sacramento, CA. While an undergraduate student at CRP, Chris helped put Focus together and was assistant editor for the two first issues. His class received a state award from the American Planning Association and a national award for best student project from the American Institute of Architects for the San Miguel Community Plan in 2004.
Focus: Journal Of The City And Regional Planning Department, Volume 3
Focus: Journal Of The City And Regional Planning Department, Volume 3
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