The Vernacular Music Centers work focuses on research, teaching, and advocacy in the world’s vernacular musics- musics and dance that are learned, taught, and passed-on by ear and in memory. “Voices from the Vernacular Music Center: A Podcast in Community Arts and Education” is a podcast about how, why, when, and with what impact people […]
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The purpose of this document is to provide Pepin County with a summary of the reports from University of Wisconsin–Madison regarding the 2017-2022 Pepin County Multi-Hazards Mitigation Plan. Thereports cover four topics within the plan that are expected to have significant impact on Pepin County residents: extreme weather, flooding, water quality, and agricultural land use. […]
Local residents in the Village of Stockholm are concerned about heavy rainfall events that may cause flooding and erosion. The goal of this project is to design alternatives for stormwater mitigation to protect the Village in the event of a storm. UniverCity Year Contact Info Gavin Luter Managing Director gavin@cows.org 608-261-1141 University Faculty Contact Jan […]
The goal of this project was to locate and collect site data for all present and historical dry cleaners in San Diego County. Additional data pertained to dry cleaning sites’ responsible parties and operation status. This report pertains to the first phase of this project, which was conducted by students in Environmental Engineering 558: Solid […]
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TxTC partnered with H.E. Butt Foundation to develop a conceptual design for a park in Real County, Texas, in June 2020. The community identified this project through an extensive Asset Based Community Development process with Texas Rural Leadership Program (TRLP). In 2017, a group of community members completed the TRLP leadership training and created a […]
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The City of Columbus partnered with TxTC in 2019 to explore ideas to enhance the overall attractiveness and visual appeal along key corridors. Located 70 miles west of Houston at the crossroads of I-10 and Hwy 71, the City sought landscape improvements along gateway corridors. With about 60 Registered Texas Historic Landmarks, Columbus sees an […]
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In the fall of 2017 and spring of 2018, more than 130 students in six urban planning and landscape architecture classes worked closely with the City of La Grange (pop. 4,700). Hurricane Harvey hit the week of the first community kick-off meeting, postponing the projects and the start of the fall semester. La Grange is […]
Willacy County is a rural community (pop. 21,515) in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, thirty miles north of Mexico. In 2017, Hispanics and Latinos represented 88% of the population. The County has 16 colonias with some that lack adequate infrastructure for water and sewer. Due to its location along the Gulf of Mexico, […]