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Arts - Culture - Local Dining - Back To The River: Transforming The Heart Ofindian Orchard In Springfield, Ma Senior Urban Design Studio Fall 2022, Lio Averill, Skyler Burns, Zixin Chen, Anamika Dargan, Ted Duffy, Marykate Farnham, Andrew Foley, Molly Hancock, Haruka Kushida, Matthew Ledoux, Shangyi Liu, Luc-Danel Metivier, Luviana Mclean, Taylor Mills, Camilla Novo, Lucia Peña, Andrew Reilly, Frank Sleegers
Arts - Culture - Local Dining - Back To The River: Transforming The Heart Ofindian Orchard In Springfield, Ma Senior Urban Design Studio Fall 2022, Lio Averill, Skyler Burns, Zixin Chen, Anamika Dargan, Ted Duffy, Marykate Farnham, Andrew Foley, Molly Hancock, Haruka Kushida, Matthew Ledoux, Shangyi Liu, Luc-Danel Metivier, Luviana Mclean, Taylor Mills, Camilla Novo, Lucia Peña, Andrew Reilly, Frank Sleegers
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity
Instructor
Frank Sleegers
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ARTS - CULTURE - LOCAL DINING - BACK TO THE RIVER takes a focused look at the neighborhood of Indian Orchard in their historic mill district and provides strategies for urban design and landscape architecture to support residents’ visions for the future. With the Studio’s partnership between the Indian Orchard Citizen’s Council, Grow IO (Wellspring Harvest), and the Springfield Office of Planning and Economic Development, the overarching goal for each design team was to create a transformative dining and arts district in the historic core of Indian Orchard. The Senior Urban Design Studio 2022 created six …
Green, Equitable And Livable Transforming The Core Of Mason Square In Springfield, Ma, Michael Amato, Jacqueline Berlin, Michael Chancellor, Zachary Delorenzo, Chaitrali Doke, Pavana Jairaj, Chandana Palika, Michael Riccio, Julie Slater, Jeffrey Taylor
Green, Equitable And Livable Transforming The Core Of Mason Square In Springfield, Ma, Michael Amato, Jacqueline Berlin, Michael Chancellor, Zachary Delorenzo, Chaitrali Doke, Pavana Jairaj, Chandana Palika, Michael Riccio, Julie Slater, Jeffrey Taylor
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity
GREEN, EQUITABLE AND LIVABLE - TRANSFORMING THE CORE OF MASON SQUARE takes a focused look at the Mason Square Planning District in Springfield, Ma and provides strategies for urban design and landscape architecture to support a community’s vision for the future.
The students engaged through various community meetings for the larger Mason Square district in the spring of 2023 and enthusiastically supported the ideas and thoughts that were expressed. brownfield at Wilbraham Avenue. The larger goal is to shape a district for everybody to create safe and beautiful streets, provide better connectivity to public urban green, enhance arts, culture and …
Restoration And Recreation A Cranberry Bog’S Return To Wetland For Water Quality And Recreation, Rebecca Requa Bagdigian-Boone
Restoration And Recreation A Cranberry Bog’S Return To Wetland For Water Quality And Recreation, Rebecca Requa Bagdigian-Boone
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
Cranberry bogs are an iconic part of the New England scenery, specifically on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Commercial cranberry farming originated in the states starting in 1816, but the indigenous people of New England have had a much longer relationship to the plant, Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait. Cranberry farming relies more heavily on access to freshwater than other forms of agriculture; because of the use of water for irrigation, harvesting, and overwintering protection, cranberry bogs are often located in areas directly adjacent to waterways. Although necessary to support productive bogs the agricultural practices involved in cranberry growing have significant ecological impacts …
Beyond D-Space Landscape Strategies For An Expanding Wildland-Urban Interface, Bo Carpen
Beyond D-Space Landscape Strategies For An Expanding Wildland-Urban Interface, Bo Carpen
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
Destructive wildfires have increased exponentially in number, size, and economic damages over the past four decades (Buechi et al., 2021). Since the 1990’s, the average duration of wildfire season and spatial extent of at-risk landscapes have both grown substantially, posing greater environmental risk for populations throughout the western United States (Balch et al., 2016). Within the Colorado Front Range, wildfire risk is also expanding into new terrian as threats grows in suburban grassland landscapes (Brasch, 2022). Recent wildfire mitigation plans developed by foresters, fire planners, local area planners, and landscape architects are inventoried to study emerging wildfire buffer approaches for …
Plum Island Resiliency Toolkit A Toolkit For Homeowners And The Community, Jake Harlow
Plum Island Resiliency Toolkit A Toolkit For Homeowners And The Community, Jake Harlow
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
Most of the land directly on the Atlantic coast is flat and at sea level making it more vulnerable to sea-level rise impacts (EPA, 2022). Plum Island is in Essex County, Massachusetts, adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. Plum Island is divided between four municipalities that include Newburyport, Newbury, Rowley, and Ipswich a. Plum Island is a barrier island system that faces threats from sea-level rise and climate change impacts indicated in the “Newburyport Climate Resiliency Plan” and “Plum Island: Exploring the Fiscal and Economic Implications of Sea Level Rise, “report. The project focus area encompasses the northern 1/3 of Plum …
Arts And Culture In Amherst, Ma: An Economic Impact Analysis Of The Drake, Chanel Lobdell
Arts And Culture In Amherst, Ma: An Economic Impact Analysis Of The Drake, Chanel Lobdell
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
The Drake is a live performance and music venue in the heart of Amherst that was developed in 2022 by The Downtown Amherst Foundation. The Downtown Amherst Foundation believes that art and culture will be the economic and destination driver for Amherst and the Drake was the organization’s first project to bring more arts and culture into downtown. Now that the Drake has been opened for over a year, the foundation is interested in learning about the economic impacts that it had on Amherst.
Improving Mental Health Through Streetscape Design In Indian Cities A Typology And Proposed Intervention In The Kalkaji Neighborhood Of Delhi, Muskaan Handa
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
Healing landscapes have long been an important aspect of human life. Monastic communities in the Western world-maintained infirmaries based on the use of herbs and prayers, which nearly invariably included a cloistered garden. The relevance of nature in the healing process has been significantly lessened as a result of modern improvements in technology, and this has been one regrettable result of the "cure over care" phenomenon present in many parts of the healthcare field. Traditional healing gardens are frequently located in or near indoor healthcare facilities. "Why?" is the question. Why can’t therapeutic gardens work as healing landscapes blending with …
Design And Integration Of Multimodal Urban Allotment Gardens: Considerations For Landscape Architecture And Planning In Porto, Portugal, Remington Pontes
Design And Integration Of Multimodal Urban Allotment Gardens: Considerations For Landscape Architecture And Planning In Porto, Portugal, Remington Pontes
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
Public open space is a fundamental and imperative constituent of contemporary urban infrastructure. As a resolute fixture of the built landscape, public space, especially green space, represents the sites and settings of public life, ideally functioning as the primary urban forum for political action and community representation, social interaction and integration, physical recreation, civic participation, and a variety of ecosystem services including stormwater management (Carmona et al., 2003, Chen, 2017). However, despite the socio- ecological significance of public open spaces in facilitating a cohesive and environmentally sustainable public realm, over the past half-century, cities throughout the Global North have been …
Thermal Efficacy Of Green Walls In Building Structures In The Northeast United States, Nathaniel Wright
Thermal Efficacy Of Green Walls In Building Structures In The Northeast United States, Nathaniel Wright
Student Showcase
Climate change is one of the most threatening issues that humankind faces in the 21st century and there is indisputable evidence that our planet is experiencing global temperature rise, shrinking of ice sheets and sea level rise, warming oceans, and extreme weather events at an alarming rate. Urbanization drives these changes and creates the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. One method to mitigate this issue is urban greening, specifically the construction of green walls which take advantage of unused vertical exteriors of buildings. Despite existing literature on green walls especially in Europe and Asia, green walls must be researched more …