Sustainable Development Goal: 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Meeting the Housing Needs of Redmond, Oregon: Suggestions for Providing Affordable Housing

The Affordable Housing Plan included an assessment of the existing housing options in Redmond, as well as goals, objectives, and strategies that could be used to encourage the preservation and creation of affordable housing. Although Redmond’s Affordable Housing Plan is comprehensive and fairly detailed, it was drafted before the housing market crash and resulting 2008- […]

Assessing Benchmarking Strategies to Encourage Smart Buildings in Bellevue

The Bellevue Comprehensive Plan identifies a Civic Center District surrounding Bellevue City Hall. This Civic Center vision would integrate City Hall, the “Metro property” adjacent to City Hall, Meydenbauer Convention Center (and its expansion), the existing Transit Center, and the future light rail station. It would interface with the Grand Connection (Meydenbauer Bay to Eastside […]

Food Systems: Locating an Incubator Kitchen,Recreation: Relocating the 4H Fairgrounds

The 4H Fairgrounds are an important community gathering space, but its current location has some accessibility barriers. Students will conduct a location analysis using Census data and Google Maps to inform selection of a relocation site. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustaining Hoosier Communities Contact Info Jane Rogan Sustaining […]

Recreation: Relocating the 4H Fairgrounds

Gonzales Comprehensive Plan

The 2012 State of the Community Report is a critical component in identifying where the City of Gonzales currently stands. It provides a baseline by which different facets of the community can be looked at piece by piece, revealing each of their strengths and opportunities as well as weaknesses and potential challenges. However, that portion […]

Legal Strategies for Sustainability

Sustainable development is development that enables the economic, environmental, and equitable health of the current population without compromising the ability of future generations to meet these needs. To accommodate new growth in the coming years, the City of Redmond can implement its own type of sustainable development to ensure a healthy future for all residents. […]

Land Use Scenarios for Leander

Sustainable Land Use Planning classwork focused on two curricular units, each informing the development of land use scenarios for the City of Leander. The first part provided background information on the history, institutional frameworks, purpose, principles and values inherent in land use and comprehensive planning today. The second part covered the background analytic and participatory […]

Seaside Tactical Urbanism

Tactical Urbanism is process of making low-cost and temporary changes to the built environment in order to experiment with and catalyze changes in a city. Seaside Tactical Urbanism (STU) was created by a group of six environmental studies students to explore street interventions on Echo Avenue, a large and underdeveloped street in Seaside. The project […]

Woolen Branch Greenway Extension Planning

Students will research, document and analyze the existing physical condition of the Woolen Mill Branch Corridor and develop conceptual restoration and design proposals to make up a Greenway Vision Plan for the identified area. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Smart Communities Initiative Contact Info University Faculty Contact Brad Collett […]

Awareness Campaign For The Health Benefits Of Green Spaces

Students will research the restorative health benefits of spending time outside in campus green spaces and design appropriate messages for a semester campaign to share their findings with the university community. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustainable Communities Collaborative Contact Info University Faculty Contact Tom Hogan Labor and Employment […]

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