Discipline: Urban Planning

Understanding Homelessness

Students in this course looked to peer communities around the country for best practices for addressing homelessness. To choose the communities, they searched for those with characteristics like climate, population, and unemployment rate that were similar to those of Apache Junction, as well as communities making promising strides, which they then vetted with Apache Junction […]

Village of New Glarus Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan

Purpose & Role of Parks The Village of New Glarus recognizes the importance and benefts its parks and open space system has on the Village’s character and quality of life. Parks provide opportunities for social activities, education, and community involvement. Beautiful parks and a variety of recreational activities help attract new residents, tourism and commerce. […]

Liberty County Strategic Plan Master Drainage

In the fall of 2015, the County of Liberty and Texas Target Communities partnered to create a task force to represent the community. The task force was integral to the planning process, contributing the thoughts, desires, and opinions of community members—as well as their enthusiasm about Liberty’s future. This fourteen-month planning process ended in August […]

Asset Mapping Tool

Asset mapping is the process of mapping all the resources and assets of a community. It is a geospatial map, providing information about the resources available in the community. Some of the functions of asset maps are: • Recognizing the existing resources to uncover the gaps in services • Navigate through the available resources by […]

Housing Needs Study

A housing quality study was conducted to evaluate the current housing stock in the City of La Grange. It was found that the majority of housing is maintained or well maintained and that although the City has an older housing stock, it is very well taken care of. There has been no new residential construction […]

Planning a Sustainable Future

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Project Cities Contact Info Steven Russell Program Manager steven.russell@asu.edu 480-727-2698 University Faculty Contact Sara Meerow Sara.Meerow@asu.edu Local Government / Community Contact Larry Kirch Development Services Director lkirch@ajcity.net 480-474-5082 […]

Transitioning Mobile Home Parks (1/2)

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Project Cities Contact Info Steven Russell Program Manager steven.russell@asu.edu 480-727-2698 University Faculty Contact Deirdre Pfeiffer deirdre.pfeiffer@asu.edu Local Government / Community Contact Larry Kirch Development Services Director lkirch@ajcity.net 480-474-5082 […]

Safe Routes to School Planning Guide for the New Glarus School District and the Village of New Glarus

This report has been created under the scope of the UniverCity Year program, a collaborative partnership between communities across the State of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin – Madison. In partnership with Green County UniverCity Alliance, Village of New Glarus officials identified a need for a safe routes to school study for the New […]

Responding to Requests for Proposals

The goal of this project was to aid Green County Development Corporation (GCDC) in bringing new businesses to Green County. In order to do so, we sought to assist GCDC in their efforts to respond to businesses who are interesting in locating in Wisconsin. Our work led to the creation of two deliverables for GCDC. […]

Broadhead Marketing Analysis: Business Inventory and Research

The City of Brodhead set out to begin a study of its local market. Some reasons for the analysis include: • Several vacancies in downtown. • A more measured growth rate. • Understanding of how Brodhead is doing overall. Brodhead is pursuing a market analysis to better understand the retail, service, and business needs of […]

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