Sustainable City Year Program

Connecting Communities: Recommendations for Micromobility and Transit Integration

To improve the connection between active and public transportation in Lane County, the Bicycle Transportation class partnered with Lane Transit District (LTD) and Cascadia Mobility to produce comprehensive street redesigns, GIS mapping and implementation recommendations, and community outreach findings. Through the lens of street design, geographic mapping, policymaking, and community engagement, students provided a basis […]

Willamette Activity Center: Operational and Expense Framework

In Fall 2024, the City of Oakridge partnered with the University of Oregon’s Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) and the Institute for Policy Research and Engagement (IPRE) to reimagine the future of the Willamette Activity Center (WAC). This collaborative initiative emerged in response to the WAC’s closure in 2022 due to deferred maintenance issues, including […]

Pacific Grove Handicap Ramp Assessment

The city of Pacific Grove requested that a particular area of their city be mapped showing where handicap ramps, specifically sidewalk-to-street ramps, are located. The purpose of mapping the locations of these handicap ramps is to determine where other handicap ramps might be needed or improved upon. It is important that the city of Pacific […]

Planning for a New Mobility Future

With advances in technology, new forms of mobility are emerging and entering our cities. These new modes are driving the need for plans and policies that direct how they will operate in cities, where they can operate and park, and who can use them. The cities of Eugene and Gresham would like to prepare for […]

Bicycle Transportation in Medford: Connections to the Bear Creek Greenway

Under the direction of Professor Marc Schlossberg, 42 students in the University of Oregon Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management’s Bicycle Transportation course reviewed and examined critical elements of an urban bikeway system and proposed projects that would encourage and increase bicycle ridership and safety in Medford. This course was offered to upper-level undergraduates […]

Sustainable Urban Design Framework Seminar

Tigard, a suburb of Portland, Oregon, is interested in a new urban design vision as a new MAX light rail line is proposed to extend through the city. TriMet and the city of Tigard partnered with a University of Oregon graduate architecture seminar and design studio to envision a new plan and identity for the […]

Sustainable Urban Design Framework Studio

68th Avenue Station and Red Rock Creek Design Studio

This studio project was organized around the plans for a new TriMet light rail line to Tigard, Tualatin, and Washington County. Though this Southwest Corridor project is still in the early phases of planning and design, the studio collaborated with TriMet planners and the City of Tigard to visualize the future of a site that […]

Eat, Play, Shop: Downtown Redevelopment

This report summarizes the student design proposals for redeveloping three sites in downtown Albany, Oregon. University of Oregon Architecture students were tasked with iden fying op ons to increase ac vity within the respec ve sites in the downtown region. The projects were divided into three separate proposals; these three integrated architectural components consis ng […]

Bridgeport Village Transit Opportunities

This report formally documents the ideas and proposals made to the city of Tualatin by the University of Oregon’s Sustainable Transportation class in the Planning, Public Policy, and Management program. The class met with city officials and community members to hear suggested improvements, performed site visits to see what could be done, and then cultivated […]

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