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Articles 1 - 16 of 16
Full-Text Articles in Urban Studies and Planning
Leaf-Ing A Legacy, Susan R. Whiteland
Leaf-Ing A Legacy, Susan R. Whiteland
International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education
Leaf-ing a Legacy is the story of a university art education class that joined with an elementary classroom and residents in a long term health/rehabilitative center through a service-learning project that utilized digital technology and art making in a problem-based learning format to explore the concept of legacy. Evidence was found that the experience promoted socio-emotional learning and fostered the building of socio-emotional capital for the participants involved.
Editorial, Pamela H. Lawton
Editorial, Pamela H. Lawton
International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education
No abstract provided.
International Journal Of Lifelong Learning In Art Education 2018 Full Issue, Pamela H. Lawton
International Journal Of Lifelong Learning In Art Education 2018 Full Issue, Pamela H. Lawton
International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education
No abstract provided.
Creating Safer Routes To School For Fairfield Court Elementary Students, Lara Handwerker
Creating Safer Routes To School For Fairfield Court Elementary Students, Lara Handwerker
Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone Projects
The purpose of this plan is to conduct a Walkabout study for Fairfield Court Elementary School in Richmond, Virginia through the guidelines of the Safe Routes to School program. The plan seeks to address infrastructural and non-infrastructural issues relating to traffic, safety, and travel routes for students who walk and bike to the school. The plan first identifies these issues and then details recommendations for the school through goals, objectives, and action items. An implementation plan for the school and its community partners is also detailed.
Increasing Access To The James River Park System: A Community Roadmap With The Blackwell, Oak Grove, And Bellemeade Neighborhoods, Max A. Ewart
Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone Projects
Natural Parks like the James River Park System offer a host of benefits. They improve our mental health, make us better environmental stewards, Improve socialization, and make a healthier population by lowering the rates of asthma, obesity and hypertension. These public health outcomes disproportionately impacts minority communities in the City of Richmond, a population that visits the James River Park System at a lower rate than white communities do. This plan identifies the barriers preventing access for minority communities and gives recommendations to improve access in the City of Richmond.
Expanding Housing Opportunities And Preserving Character In Historic Neighborhoods, Jessica R. Russo
Expanding Housing Opportunities And Preserving Character In Historic Neighborhoods, Jessica R. Russo
Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone Projects
The City of Richmond has been experiencing population growth and rising housing costs in recent years, leading to spatially uneven revitalization and growing affordability concerns. The historic neighborhoods in the city are part of what makes Richmond unique and a desired city to live in. Many historic neighborhoods are seeing rapid revitalization contributing to rising housing costs and displacement concerns, while others have persistent high vacancy rates and deteriorating historic buildings. Overall, residents across the city struggle with affordability, as 45% of city residents are cost-burdened. With these conditions, it highlights the need and opportunity to put strategies in place …
The Scott's Addition Complete Streets Plan, Cassandra Patterson
The Scott's Addition Complete Streets Plan, Cassandra Patterson
Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone Projects
Scott’s Addition was once an industrial neighborhood. In recent years, however, the neighborhood has experienced a rapid transition of uses. It has become a growing residential and commercial neighborhood that features numerous breweries as its most popular attractions. Regrettably, the streets and sidewalks of the neighborhood have not seen a transition and still reflect the industrial uses of the past. The neighborhood is virtually devoid of bicycle infrastructure. The pedestrian infrastructure is incomplete and unsafe. The neighborhood is car-centric with little effort to provide for other modes of transportation. As new apartment buildings enter the neighborhood, the transportation issues facing …
Libbie & Grove Urban Design Plan, Planning Studio Spring 2018, Kathryn Benedict, Alexander Cline, Ben Jones, John Mattingly, Billy Mcgregor, Brett Meadows, Sara Rozmus, Josh Young
Libbie & Grove Urban Design Plan, Planning Studio Spring 2018, Kathryn Benedict, Alexander Cline, Ben Jones, John Mattingly, Billy Mcgregor, Brett Meadows, Sara Rozmus, Josh Young
Urban and Regional Studies and Planning Reports
This plan was created for the City of Richmond Department of Planning and Development Review to serve as a recommendation for urban design improvements and suggested changes to zoning ordinances for the Libbie and Grove commercial area located in the Westhampton neighborhood. To begin, an in-depth demographic analysis was conducted for the Westhampton neighborhood. Special attention was paid to socioeconomic factors and trends in census tracts directly surrounding the Libbie and Grove commercial corridor.
Based on these analyses and new development occurring in the Libbie and Grove commercial corridor, we were able to allocate six sites or “study areas” as …
Finding Homeplace: Exploring The Experiences Of Black Women In The City Of Richmond, Mariah Williams
Finding Homeplace: Exploring The Experiences Of Black Women In The City Of Richmond, Mariah Williams
Theses and Dissertations
The planning efforts of African-Americans in the United States remained largely hidden throughout much of early planning history. Although African-Americans engaged in unique planning practices of their own, ones that significantly shaped the social and economic fabric within their communities, planning literature has tended to problematize them within the urban environment instead of celebrating their unique differences and experiences. Black women, despite their significant contributions to the urban fabric of numerous American cities, remain even more silenced throughout the planning profession. The unique ways they experience the urban environment, what they value in the built environment and how they speak …
Tommi's Place: An Adaptation And Commentary On Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vanessa L. Jackson
Tommi's Place: An Adaptation And Commentary On Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vanessa L. Jackson
Theses and Dissertations
Harriet Beecher Stowe penned Uncle Tom’s Cabin which was published in 1852. This book exposed and condemned the atrocities of slavery. Her book became a bestseller and is said to be one of the primary reasons why slavery was eventually abolished. Though slavery has been dismantled the system of oppression which allowed the marginalization of others to thrive has never been eliminated. This system established a dominant culture; one which oppresses those of African descent and has endured for centuries. Tommi’s Place retells Uncle Tom’s Cabin in contemporary corporate America. Tommi’s Place reflects that this system of oppression is still …
Learning Together In Highland Park To Build Civic Capacity, Grace Leonard
Learning Together In Highland Park To Build Civic Capacity, Grace Leonard
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines the work of nonprofit organizations collaborating with communities to build civic capacity in North Highland Park, a neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. Place-focused planning strategies during the twentieth century diminished civic capacity in the community and fostered isolation. Today, collaborative community work in Highland Park is incorporating the assets, resources and knowledge held in the community into strategies to improve quality of life using collaborative learning. A case study approach closely analyzes community engagement and revitalization processes in North Highland Park between 2011 and 2017. Nonprofit organizations mobilized and led a group of community-based collaborators, including nonprofit staff …
The Fourth District Police Station Plan, Zhaokai Liu
The Fourth District Police Station Plan, Zhaokai Liu
Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone Projects
The purpose of this plan is to identify potential police station sites and create design guidelines for the new police station for the Prince William County Police Department.
Implementation Plan For The Maggie Walker Community Land Trust To Operate As A Land Bank, Matthew J. Becker
Implementation Plan For The Maggie Walker Community Land Trust To Operate As A Land Bank, Matthew J. Becker
Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone Projects
The purpose of this plan is to provide an implementation framework for The Maggie Walker Community Land Trust (MWCLT) to utilize as it establishes its land banking operations. Through land banking, the MWCLT has an opportunity to address three interconnected issues in Richmond; a lack of affordable housing, a concentration of disadvantaged neighborhoods, and extensive tax delinquency. Currently 44% of all households in Richmond are cost burdened, and the majority of these cost burdened households, 92% of them, are low income households. The vast majority of these cost burdened, low-income households are located within Richmond’s disadvantaged neighborhoods. Richmond suffers from …
Myers Street Streetscape Plan, Nathan J. Manning
Myers Street Streetscape Plan, Nathan J. Manning
Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone Projects
The Scott’s Addition neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia has faced growing density and redevelopment as the neighborhood has become an appealing place to live, work, and play. Myers Street sits directly East from most of Scott’s Addition and has historically housed many industrial businesses. The street is rapidly transforming as many commercial/retail businesses are moving into the corridor. Streetscape redevelopment of the corridor will cause a need for complete streets infrastructure allowing the street to be a safe place for all people, urban design to provide visual aesthetics, and sustainable water runoff catchments to help displace stormwater to name just a …
Virginia Commonwealth University Stormwater Management Plan, Jesse Harris
Virginia Commonwealth University Stormwater Management Plan, Jesse Harris
Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone Projects
Every year millions of gallons of polluted stormwater and untreated sanitary waste are discharged directly into the James River during combined sewer overflow events. This is a problem considering stormwater is one of the most significant sources of pollution to the nation’s surface waters.
The purpose of the VCU Stormwater Management Plan (VCU SWMP) is to reduce the impact of stormwater pollution using green infrastructure and low impact development best management practices like rain gardens, green roofs, and infiltration trenches. These stormwater control strategies present opportunities for VCU to reduce runoff and to preserve and restore green spaces on an …
Contesting The Commemorative Narrative: Planning For Richmond’S Cultural Landscape, Hannah M. Cameron
Contesting The Commemorative Narrative: Planning For Richmond’S Cultural Landscape, Hannah M. Cameron
Theses and Dissertations
Abstract: New Orleans, Baltimore, and Charlottesville are reevaluating the presence of Confederate statues in their built environment. Known as the Capital of the Confederacy, Richmond’s cultural landscape is visible through the connection of two historical spaces, Monument Avenue and Shockoe Bottom. Both serve as a powerful case study for how the commemorative narrative of these spaces is contested today and how barriers that exist influence urban planning processes and outcomes.