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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 …
Empowering Marginalized Community Members To Impact The Food System: A Strategic Communications Plan For The Hampshire County Food Policy Council, Michelle Mccue
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
The Hampshire County Food Policy Council (HCFPC) is an initiative of Healthy Hampshire, which is part of Mass in Motion, a statewide public health initiative administered by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Healthy Hampshire works to address the disconnect between food access barriers and opportunities in the 14 towns in Hampshire and Hampden Counties.
This document presents a Communications Strategy to serve as a roadmap to continue expanding awareness about the HCFPC and its work, both among partners and participants and throughout the community at large.
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 …
Cumulative Impact Of Repeated Wildfire Displacement Events On Migration In The Western United States, Bo Carpen
Cumulative Impact Of Repeated Wildfire Displacement Events On Migration In The Western United States, Bo Carpen
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
Climate migration has been identified as an urgent issue that will likely add greater complexity to existing climate change planning efforts (Black, 2011; Ahsan, 2011). Existing climate migration literature has primarily focused on international migration and the Global South, offering limited applicability to internal conditions in developed countries due to the issue’s high context dependency (Hoffman, 2020). Local and municipal planners have a responsibility to pursue evidence-based climate adaptation strategies (Mitchell, 2020). Yet, planners lack reliable data to forecast potential changes to regional migration based on repeated exposure to climate stressors. To date, research has been primarily qualitative in nature, …
Mill Redevelopment Toolkit, Janko Tomasic
Mill Redevelopment Toolkit, Janko Tomasic
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
Not long ago, mills were the centerpieces and economic engine of many communities throughout New England. With the departure of the manufacturing industry, many of these structures and complexes fell into vacancy and blight, with many being demolished outright. The town of Ludlow, MA is an example of a smaller mill community that was impacted by the closure of its mill. It resulted in the decline and eventual stagnation of population and economic growth. Large unused buildings may bring sorrow to the residents who once worked the floors and machines, but they can also offer opportunity. Through the effective adaptive …
Where Did My Land Go?: “Land Rights For Quilombolas And Indigenous Peoples In Brazil”, Joyia Smikle
Where Did My Land Go?: “Land Rights For Quilombolas And Indigenous Peoples In Brazil”, Joyia Smikle
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
This ArcGIS storymap project explores the history of the Quilombolas, the Afro-Brazilian people in Brazil that are descendants of enslaved Africans, and the path to land rights for the Quilombos. In addition this study looks at Indigenous land rights and the importantance of their sustainable practices to the health of the Amazon.
For access to the Storymap including full functionality with the maps, please go to “https://arcg.is/mXumD ”
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.
High Capacity Transit Through The Merrimack Valley Corridor: Feasibility And Alternatives For Improved Transit For The Region, Henry Mulvey
High Capacity Transit Through The Merrimack Valley Corridor: Feasibility And Alternatives For Improved Transit For The Region, Henry Mulvey
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
Presently, the interurban bus routes of the Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority (MeVa) connecting Lawrence, Lowell, and Haverhill have the highest ridership of any of the routes on the MeVa system. Connecting those three cities, and the surrounding suburbs and UMass Lowell, with a light rail line or a bus rapid transit line, would improve the commute of the people already using those bus routes and draw more residents to public transit. This project undertook corridor-based alternatives and feasibility analysis that looked at a specific proposal for a high capacity transit line connecting the three cities that would be beneficial …
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 …
Prioritizing Climate Equity: A Qualitative Analysis Of The Massachusetts Mvp Program, Noah Gordon
Prioritizing Climate Equity: A Qualitative Analysis Of The Massachusetts Mvp Program, Noah Gordon
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
The impacts of climate change are already being felt today and will continue to be felt for centuries. Thousands of scientists from around the world emphatically agree that anthropogenic emissions (emissions related to human activities) have caused an increase in the average global temperature since pre-industrial times, and will continue to elevate temperatures unless CO2 and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are drastically reduced (Working Group I 2021). Many governments at all scales around the globe have taken steps to mitigate GHG emissions. The US Environmental Protection Agency, for example, has set more stringent standards for the fuel efficiency of …
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 …
Restorative Streetscapes: Promoting Positive Mental Health Outcomes Through Urban Landscape Design In Winooski, Vermont, Sean R. Fitzsimmons
Restorative Streetscapes: Promoting Positive Mental Health Outcomes Through Urban Landscape Design In Winooski, Vermont, Sean R. Fitzsimmons
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity
The global health burden of mental health disorders is immense. The World Health Organization ranks depression as the single largest contributor to global disability; anxiety disorders alone rank sixth. One in four people will have a diagnosable mental illness in their lifetime and mental health conditions are increasing worldwide, rising 13% in the last decade. The economic implications are also immense, costing the global economy US $1 trillion each year. Mental health is more than the absence of disorders or disabilities, however. It is defined by the WHO as “a state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or …
Main Streets And Green Spaces: Creating A Community Vision In Indian Orchard, Rebecca Bagdigian-Boone, Li-Ting Hsu, Remington Pointes, Muskaan Handa, Abby Derrick, Jake Harlow, Suzanne Warner
Main Streets And Green Spaces: Creating A Community Vision In Indian Orchard, Rebecca Bagdigian-Boone, Li-Ting Hsu, Remington Pointes, Muskaan Handa, Abby Derrick, Jake Harlow, Suzanne Warner
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity
Main Street and Green Spaces takes a focused look at the neighborhood of Indian Orchard 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 cohesive, phased plan for redeveloping Main Street around the Oak and Main intersection and Parker and the Ludlow Bridge. Special attention was requested for exploring traffic calming measures and ways to support the local businesses …
Reinvigorating The Hill In Turners Falls, Ma, Patrick Burns
Reinvigorating The Hill In Turners Falls, Ma, Patrick Burns
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
This masters project will focus on the site of the Hillcrest and Sheffield Elementary School campus in the "The Hill" neighborhood of Turners Falls, MA. This project aims to create a vision of possibility for an underutilized neighborhood amenity. This project reviews social, demographic, physical data of the neighborhood in Turners Falls as well as research on play, nature play, outdoor experiential learning, and the local ecology of Montague Wildlife Management area. To execute this goal, the study aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Revitalize an underutilized space into a neighborhood asset;
- Improve elementary school campus reinforcing a positive learning …
Bournewood Hospital: Designing A Healing Landscape, Winfield Henry
Bournewood Hospital: Designing A Healing Landscape, Winfield Henry
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
Currently in the United States there are 51.5 million Americans suffering from mental illness (Mental Illness, 2021). With trends having been on the rise over the past decade, particularly for depression and anxiety, and showing a significant jump during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is crucial that behavioral health hospitals utilize all available treatment methods (Daly et. al., 2021, & Goodwin et. al., 2020). While the outdoor environment has played a role in mental and physical healthcare since the 11th Century, it has been largely lost until the late 1900s. Through research and evidence-based design, a holistic approach to healthcare is …
International Student’S Mobility And Tourism: Relations, Opportunities, And Insights For Canadian University Cities, Maria Teresa Gullace, Tom Griffin
International Student’S Mobility And Tourism: Relations, Opportunities, And Insights For Canadian University Cities, Maria Teresa Gullace, Tom Griffin
TTRA Canada 2021 Conference
The increase in student enrollment and mobility in Canadian universities every year generates a continuous flow of people that move, study, work, and live in university cities across the country. The presence of international students contributes to the prosperity of Canada, positively impacting its socio-cultural and economic development. The multiplicity of needs and services related to this segment of the urban population also makes their way through to the travel and hospitality sectors. Indeed, students visit and travel in the country, contributing to urban tourism and the local economy. In addition, the uncertainty related to the post-pandemic period and the …
Historic Millyard Revitalization Project: Ware, Ma, Andrew Carrano, Limin Chen, Wyatt Collins, Omar Eissa, Andrew Folger, Kevin Herlihy, Kerran Holmes, Samuel Huntress, Tharanah Lundi, Emily Menard, Aidan Murray, Meaghan O'Brien, Harrington Riendeau, Corrina Rossetti, Amelia Scofield, Yichen Wan, Jinning Yan
Historic Millyard Revitalization Project: Ware, Ma, Andrew Carrano, Limin Chen, Wyatt Collins, Omar Eissa, Andrew Folger, Kevin Herlihy, Kerran Holmes, Samuel Huntress, Tharanah Lundi, Emily Menard, Aidan Murray, Meaghan O'Brien, Harrington Riendeau, Corrina Rossetti, Amelia Scofield, Yichen Wan, Jinning Yan
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity
This project’s mission is to provide an all- encompassing destination for the needs of current and future employees, residents, and visitors of the Ware Millyard Historic District and the community of Ware, MA. The project aims to facilitate the revitalization and redevelopment of the Millyard and develop a communal campus which provides employment, housing, goods, services, as well as recreational and social opportunities for the region. The vision of this project is to facilitate the revitalization and redevelopment of the Ware Millyard Historic District by establishing an emerging industry within the site. Incorporating the cannabis industry and all of its …
From Quadrangle To Square: Connecting Culture, Art And Public Spaces In Downtown Springfield, Lauren Azuela, Patrick Burns, Bo Carpen, Winfield Henry, Joseph Langois
From Quadrangle To Square: Connecting Culture, Art And Public Spaces In Downtown Springfield, Lauren Azuela, Patrick Burns, Bo Carpen, Winfield Henry, Joseph Langois
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity
From Quadrangle to Square: Connecting Culture, Art and Public Spaces in Downtown Springfield provides strategies to revitalize Springfield’s Metro Center through landscape architecture and public art initiatives, and to acknowledge the role that race has played in Springfield’s development from the City’s incorporation in the early 1600s through present day. With the Studio’s partnership between the Springfield Cultural Partnership, Armory Quadrangle Civic Association, Springfield Museums, Fresh Paint Springfield, and Art for the Soul Gallery, an overarching goal for each student was to create a cultural corridor along Bruce Landon Way from Springfield’s Museum Quadrangle to Court Square.
Creating A Resilient Design For The Hinsdale Island Greenway: Linking Research And Practice, Christopher Ramage
Creating A Resilient Design For The Hinsdale Island Greenway: Linking Research And Practice, Christopher Ramage
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
The Hinsdale Island Greenway proposes a community driven vision for the reuse of Hinsdale Island, the Anna Hunt Marsh Bridge, and the Charles Dana Bridge as a resilient public landscape that balances recreation and conservation goals. Within the project context, three research questions are investigated. 1) How does resiliency theory inform the design of riverine landscapes? 2) How can designed experiments be applied within public landscapes? 3) How can a transect framework be applied to organize design interventions at a site scale? A literature review, interviews with experts, case studies, and lessons learned during the course of this project are …
Green Stormwater Infrastructure For The Town Of Maynard, Ma, Angie J. Gregory
Green Stormwater Infrastructure For The Town Of Maynard, Ma, Angie J. Gregory
Sustainability Science Working Papers
Green Infrastructure refers to ecosystem service solutions that provide human benefit. In the context of Stormwater Management, GI benefits address regulatory compliance measures related to stormwater runoff pollutant capture and flood mitigation on site, while providing co-benefits. Inherently distributive, non-exclusive, and non-rival in nature, Green Infrastructure as publicly owned infrastructure can provide restoration while generating capacity for community resilience. Comprehensive public and private investments will equitably advance public health and safety through this method. This paper will present the use of GI for satisfying compliance for MS4 permits for municipalities and implementation at residential and commercial scale with comprehensive review …
Massachusetts Complete Streets Program: An Exploratory Spatial And Social Equity Analysis, Toriellen Swistak
Massachusetts Complete Streets Program: An Exploratory Spatial And Social Equity Analysis, Toriellen Swistak
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
The effects of transportation planning on equity are often overlooked or not prioritized, sometimes resulting in an inequitable distribution of infrastructure investment with disparities in access. This paper examines the characteristics and distribution of approved Complete Streets projects across Massachusetts using social and spatial methods to analyze trends across socioeconomic demographic data. The methods applied include buffering techniques in GIS software to analyze population data within a half-mile radius of approved projects from 2016-2019. The half-mile measure of proximity is used as a proxy for access, in which descriptive statistics and regression models examine in detail.
Transforming Downtown Springfield: The Green And Equitable City Of Tomorrow, Frank Sleegers, Abriana Brown, Ella Cormier, Benjamin Devos, Matheus Gomes, Justin Hailey, Stuart Han, Ming Huang, Nan Jiang, Joshua Lemieux, Rachel Newman, Zachary Numan, Makenna Palzkill, Carter Roy, Hannah Welsh
Transforming Downtown Springfield: The Green And Equitable City Of Tomorrow, Frank Sleegers, Abriana Brown, Ella Cormier, Benjamin Devos, Matheus Gomes, Justin Hailey, Stuart Han, Ming Huang, Nan Jiang, Joshua Lemieux, Rachel Newman, Zachary Numan, Makenna Palzkill, Carter Roy, Hannah Welsh
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity
Transforming Downtown Springfield, MA: The Green and Equitable City of Tomorrow
This urban design studio is a community service project that developed visions for the downtown in Springfield, MA, as a revitalized mixed-use walkable neighborhood. The project emphasizes neighborhood connectivity through walking and biking and creating a green mosaic of places to sit and gather outdoors. We understand cities as active, vibrant, and inclusive places that are accessible and inviting to all. The project covers 7 team projects from Dwight Street down to the Connecticut River.
Main Project Goal:
Create visions for a green downtown district and ways to foster …
Healthy Placemaking - Revitalizing Springfield's Medical District, Allyson Fairweather, Michael Gagnon, Tianyi Guan, James Mealey, Gwendolyn Stoll, Peter Wackernagel
Healthy Placemaking - Revitalizing Springfield's Medical District, Allyson Fairweather, Michael Gagnon, Tianyi Guan, James Mealey, Gwendolyn Stoll, Peter Wackernagel
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity
Healthy Placemaking - Revitalizing Springfield’s Medical District
Healthy Placemaking for the North End Medical District was a community engagement urban design studio for Springfield, MA to propose a new vision for the Medical District as an exemplary model of healthy place-making. WHAT IS HEALTHY PLACE-MAKING? Healthy place-making is a creative process that generates an interconnected mixture of amenities that activate the public realm, creating a livelihood that builds upon sense of place. Urban design strategies consider the ecological relationship between people and the environment in order to provide design interventions that improve the mental, physical, social, and economic wellbeing of …
Springfield's Legacy: A Vision For A Transformative Transit-Oriented Union Station District, Keith Benoit, Nigel Cummings, Caitlan Davis, Kinjal Desai, Marcos Gonzalez, Jiaqi Guo, Anna Kellerman, Olivia Ashjian James, Bryce Lloyd-Hahn, Stephen Mccusker, Chris Ramage, Jessica Schottanes
Springfield's Legacy: A Vision For A Transformative Transit-Oriented Union Station District, Keith Benoit, Nigel Cummings, Caitlan Davis, Kinjal Desai, Marcos Gonzalez, Jiaqi Guo, Anna Kellerman, Olivia Ashjian James, Bryce Lloyd-Hahn, Stephen Mccusker, Chris Ramage, Jessica Schottanes
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity
This urban design studio developed concepts around equitable transportation Union Station in Springfield, Massachusetts. The work creates a vision for the Union Station District, a revitalized mixed-use walkable neighborhood adjacent to the restored transportation center. It emphasizes reusing the city’s historic street grid in new, forward thinking ways that enhance neighborhood connectivity. The plan creates physical and social networks that bring together diverse groups of residents and visitors. The Union Station District will be a place that offers a range of non-automobile transportation options to residents and visitors and will help transforming an area characterized by vacant lots and empty …
Knitting Together Communities - Designing The Heart Of Six Corners And Old Hill, Samantha Bowman, Ankur Choudhary, Alexandria Connell, Megan Davey, Katina Decoulos, Richard Duhamel, Brooklyn Feng, Ian Finn, Doreen Guan, Sophia Liquori, Connor Moloney, Claudia Namaroff, Emily Noonan, Hunter Proulx, Stephen Rezendes, Maura Robitaille, Vincent Shu, Jaques Skriletz, Frank Sleegers
Knitting Together Communities - Designing The Heart Of Six Corners And Old Hill, Samantha Bowman, Ankur Choudhary, Alexandria Connell, Megan Davey, Katina Decoulos, Richard Duhamel, Brooklyn Feng, Ian Finn, Doreen Guan, Sophia Liquori, Connor Moloney, Claudia Namaroff, Emily Noonan, Hunter Proulx, Stephen Rezendes, Maura Robitaille, Vincent Shu, Jaques Skriletz, Frank Sleegers
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity
Knitting together Communities -Designing the Heart of Six Corners and Old Hill
Knitting Together Communities – Designing the Heart of Six Corners and Old Hill provides a framework to knit together assets and opportunities for creating a strong identity and sense of coherence for a transformative urban district in Springfield, MA. The Senior Urban Design Studio 2019 created six proposals that were searching for design opportunities that enhance the aesthetic quality of the neighborhood and increase services for the wellbeing of the residents. The two neighborhoods are characterized by strong neighborhood leadership through committed residents, community centers and active religious …
The Just Green City: A Vision Of The South Holyoke Neighborhood, Michael Gagnon
The Just Green City: A Vision Of The South Holyoke Neighborhood, Michael Gagnon
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
Landscape Architects need to take their place as formative roles in the planning and design of our cities in the era of climate change. Not only do we have to be a part of the collaborative efforts, but we also have to bring it to the communities who need it most to create long-lasting impacts. Climate change is an equity issue and without tackling our social problems, we cannot tackle climate change. Our role is to not reinforce the status quo but to change it. The Just Green City takes place in Holyoke Massachusetts. This legacy city was once the …