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Strategic Planning for Kaohsiung's Free Economic Zone (FEZ) and New Asian Bay Area: A Report of Waterfront Revitalization Studio 2013

2013-12 , Aguilar, Johnny , Cadet, Sherene , Riley, Dawn , Manley, Canon , Keffer, Rebecca , Xie, LiWei , Sinharoy, Sinan , Braswell, Daniel , Pessoa, Lauren , Quan, Jige

The City of Kaohsiung has great deal of economic development and public policy potential that is addressed by the Policy Group. Most of the work in this section centers around the concept of the Kaohsiung Free Economic Demonstration Zone, which is currently being planned by both the city government and the central government of Taiwan. The policy group learned about some of the main goals and visions of the Free Economic Zones (FEZ) after meeting with local officials from the Bureaus of Urban Development and Economic Development. The primary goals outlined in a presentation about the future of FEZs in Taiwan include creating employment, attracting investment, and enhancing industrial competitiveness and efficiency. The government intends to achieve these goals by joining free trade agreements and promoting economic liberalization through a relaxation of business and trade regulations.

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City of Atlanta Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Program

2012-12-31 , Berry, Seanna , Cotter, Dan , Frackelton, Alexandra , Lee, Susannah , Madden, Mackenzie , McRae, Stephen , Ranney,Ted , Terranova, Patrick , Voyles, Travis

The new area-wide approach to brownfield redevelopment highlights barriers and opportunities that extend beyond individual sites. It seeks to catalyze area-wide revitalization through the clean-up and redevelopment of targeted brownfield sites. The implementation strategy takes into account local planning efforts, best practices and goals identified by the communitiy. It brings together partners and resources to leverage the City's existing brownfield assessment and cleanup tools. The plan's brownfield reuse recommendations identify and prioritized five geographic redevelopment nodes within the overall project area: Murphy Triangle, Green Enterprise District, Metropolitan Yards, Crossroads Center, and Fort McPherson Gateway. Each node has a distinct redevelopment strategy that addresses conditions of blight with a particular emphasis on prioritized brownfield sites.

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Ashram Road Corridor Plan

2012-04-12 , Brodie, Stefanie , Kent, John , McGuinness, Eugene , Pienta, Alison , Roell, Maria , Wadelton, Kim

Ashram Road is a major regional connection and the principal commercial thoroughfare along the western bank of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad. The Ashram Road Corridor Study examines the stretch of Ashram Road from the Gandhi Ashram, north of Rishi Dadhichi Bridge, to Ellis Bridge. This heavily traversed corridor carries approximately 12,000 to 15,000 passenger cars during peak rush hours from its intersection with Nava Vadaj Road around Rishi Dadhichi Bridge to its intersection with Netaji and Bhagtacharya Roads around Sardar Bridge (City Development Plan). Commercial land uses south of the Nehru Bridge encourage a high level of activity in this area. Uses at the northern extent are influenced by the Gandhi Ashram and are more residential with some emerging commercial industries. Once a walled city on the eastern bank of the Sabarmati River, Ahmedabad now stands astride the intermittent water body. Recently, the Khari cut canal system was used to dam the river, artificially rendering the river a perennial water body. The Sabarmati Riverfront Development Corporation was established and tasked with the reinvention and reuse of the land area along the river. The redevelopment of the Sabarmati Riverfront is intended to further increase the activity along this corridor. There have been various plans drafted that involve or relate to the Sabarmati Riverfront, Ashram Road, and the Gandhi Ashram itself. Each of these plans has influenced the direction of the Ashram Road Corridor Study. The plans include: The City Development Plan (CDP) – A comprehensive city plan providing the vision for the City of Ahmedabad; The Riverfront Development Plan – A document detailing the redevelopment of the Sabarmati Riverfront and the direction for future development along the river; The Bus Rapid Transit Plan – A proposal for increasing public transit in the City of Ahmedabad through the bus rapid transit system; The Ashram Redevelopment Plan – A vision for the future development of Gandhi Ashram and the property surrounding the ashram grounds; The Metro Rapid Transit Plan – A proposal for heavy rail metro transit services in the City of Ahmedabad. These plans will be discussed in further detail in following sections. The Ashram Road Corridor Study was defined through careful consideration of these plans and an understanding of the problems resulting from conflicting interests in the project area.

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Planning and Development Strategies for Holy Trinity, Alabama

2011-12-15 , Alex, Brijith , Bikoff, James , Brooks, Wesley , Hellier, Michael , Kimmel, Avi , Lee, Victoria , Leous, Audrey , Mahoney, Kevin , Mondragon, Michelle , Na, Min , Rhodes, John, Jr. , Swope, Drew , Williams, Hans , Woods, Cara , Yates, Keenan , Yoke, David

The Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity (MSMHT) own and oversee parcels of rural land in Russell County, Alabama. The Missionary Servants are currently exploring and assessing how best to develop and utilize these major land holdings. By developing the land, members hope to provide services to their constituents, meet and help the needs of the larger community, and ensure a reliable source of income to fund Mission activities, all while promoting the principles of the Catholic Church as enunciated by MSMHT founder Father Thomas Judge, “Be good, do good, and be a power for good.” Towards this goal, the Missionary Servants have sought out the services and expertise of the School of City and Regional Planning Department of the Georgia Institute of Technology. MSMHT looked to Professor Michael Dobbins and professional planner Ray White for advice and guidance on how to best develop the land. The School subsequently formed a graduate level studio planning course around the project. Over the course of the Fall 2011 academic term, graduate students in the studio con­ducted site visits, interviewed stakeholders, solicited advice and guidance from subject-matter experts, examined the underlying data, engaged in quantitative analysis, created projections, generated maps and spatial analyses, and assessed various ideas and project proposals. Hundreds of hours were devoted to this project, with Professor Dobbins and Mr. White providing overall coordination, management, and expert guidance. The final report is presented here. It takes the form of a land management evaluation and pro­posal. The report is broken down into four major sections. The first section, “Description of Holy Trin­ity and Environs,” provides the background and context for the property located at the Holy Trinity site. Items in this section include a discussion of pertinent economic, housing, and demographic issues. This section addresses the composition of the land and environment, examines the social, cultural and busi­ness forces in the surrounding community and region, and provides an overview of the Church’s activi­ties in the area. The second section focuses on “Land Management.” This part of the report assesses current and potential revenue streams and amounts for the Mission. It also identifies and explores opportunities for Holy Trinity to partner with various businesses, investors, community and nonprofit organizations, and local and regional government offices and consortiums in furthering the goals of development, commu­nity service, and environmental preservation. The third section is devoted to “Development.” This portion analyzes and assesses various de­velopment possibilities for the property. It focuses on four potential scenarios for the land, consisting of agriculture industry, service provision, a town center concept, and/or environmental preservation. It also addresses land development from a functions perspective, examining how certain projects and pro­grams could realize the interests and meet some of the goals of the Mission and the larger community. Issues of infrastructure, design, policy and legal mechanisms, and recommendations are also contained in this section. A timeline for project planning and implementation accompanies these three sections. The re­port concludes with final land management recommendations, addresses long-term planning efforts, and furnishes contact and resource information.

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The Economic Impact of Sea Level Rise on Port of Savannah's Garden City Terminal & City of Darien

2013-12 , Coburn, Carolyn , Cornwell, Andrew , Glostner, Joshua , Hylton, Peter , Risher, John , Skinner, Jill , Wilson, Richard

The Garden City Terminal at the Port of Savannah is one of the largest and fastest growing container ports in the country, making it an economic engine locally and nationally. The Terminal is an integral economic component on several scales: locally, it supports many households in and around Chatham County; regionally, the port supports wider distribution networks and regional agriculture and manufacturing; and nationally, the port serves as a gateway to access markets across the globe. Therefore rising sea levels projected over the next 100 years make port disruptions an important economic threat on a variety of scales. This report describes the economic threat that sea level rise poses to port and port-related operations through permanent inundation, worsening storm surge, and other environmental changes at local, regional and statewide scales. The team drew on research by Keating and Habeeb (2012) and created new tools for assessing the potential impacts on jobs, property, transportation links, and other businesses. The intent is to provide actionable projections for business leaders, policy makers, and individuals in areas that may eventually have to respond to the effects of sea level rise.

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Tracking the Effects of Sea Level Rise in Georgia's Coastal Communities

2012-12-15 , Campbell, Gillam , Clermont, Marvin , Colberg, Kathryn , Gosman, Richelle , Harkness, Anna Rose , Moore Hugens, Amy , Lorenc, Paul , Nguyen, Dzung , Yun, Jennifer , Zhou, Joy

Climate scientists have projected that in approximately 100 years sea level will rise by at least one meter along the Georgia coast. While this prognosis is significant and potentially devastating, the change will be slow and incremental. We are fortunate to have the opportunity to take advantage of these early warnings to investigate the effects that a sea level rise of this extent would have on our population, our natural and built environments, and our economy. In an effort to confront the challenge of planning for sea level rise (SLR), ten graduate students from the Georgia Institute of Technologyﾒs School of City and Regional Planning, under the direction of Dr. Larry Keating, FAICP, and Dana Habeeb, and in partnership with the Georgia Conservancy, have investigated potential impacts and adaptation opportunities for three counties along the Georgia coast: Chatham, Liberty, and McIntosh. This study region spans 1,378 square miles of the Georgia and contains a population of 334,099.

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Northside Drive as a Multimodal Developmental Corridor: Transformation from Utilitarian Auto Route to Grand Transit Boulevard

2012 , Anders, Joel , Bedward, Tanya , Brodie, Stefanie , Cardoni, Lauren , Carragher, Margaret , Cox, Rachel , Gooze, Aaron , Hyer, Garrett , Ingles, Amy , Kalinke, Lydia , Levin, Josh , McColley, Sarah , Phillips, Eric , Reed, Landon , Wong, James , Zhang, Wenwen , Alhadeff, Daniel , Ward, Elizabeth

The studio explored ways to transform Northside Drive from a dismal, disorganized underperforming corridor that frames the west side of the Atlanta core into a grand transit boulevard. Picture a tree-lined, well-lit boulevard, wide and grand, with medians, and ample accommodation of all travel modes, lined with mid-rise mixed income residential buildings with as much retail and other ground floor activities as the market will support. With the proper transportation and zoning design, over time this now dismal traffic corridor will transform all the way from I-75 to West End. Increasing mixed use development densities will support a growing share of transit, pedestrian and bicycle uses as distances shorten between residential and jobs concentrations. Planned and developed properly, the transformation will break down Northside’s historic race and class divide to become a great urban street whose assets and attractions provide a common ground for sharing the strengths of diverse populations.

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Retreat, Adapt, Defend - Urban Design Response to Sea Level Rise in 5 Coastal Georgia Communities

2013 , Dagenhart, Richard , Debo, Thomas N. , Adams, Kevin , Aguilar, Johnny , Alhadeff, Daniel , Blumenfeld, Amy , Cadet, Sherene , Hutchison, Alyssa , Manley, Canon , McClure, Melvin , Plummer, Audrey , Riley, R. Dawn , Tuura, Logan , Wallace, Justin , Wang, Jiawen , Zhang, Yigong

This studio is part of a Georgia Conservancy Blueprints initiative assessing impacts of climate change and sea level rise for Coastal Georgia. The studio was organized into five teams to address issues five cities: Savannah, Tybee Island, Brunswick, Darien and St. Marys. Student teams visited each city, meeting with local officials and leaders of non-profit organization who were involved in adapting to climate change.

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Thaltej Village: An Incremental Approach to Urban Encroachment

2012-04-27 , Brown, Emily , Buchwach, Allison , Hagerty, Ryan , Richardson, Mary , Schultz, Laura , Yan, Bin

The following project describes the background and context of slum redevelopment in India, Gujarat, and Ahmedabad. Detailed accounts of the economic, social, and environmental conditions at Thaltej are included. In addition, case studies and best practices are described. Through site analysis, interview research, and case study analysis, four alternatives are presented in the report ranging from environmental upgrade to a full-scale redevelopment plan for the area. Financing schemes are considered as well as a public participation plan for the rebuilding process, which applies to all four scenarios. In conclusion, no one alternative is recommended over one another since it is feasible to implement all alternatives over a period of time.

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Stormwater and Urban Design: Urban Design Strategies for Four Sites on the Atlanta BeltLine

2012 , Ahuja, Rattandeer , Boron, Roberta , Gao, Long , Hampton, Travis , Hang, Yu , Hightower, John , Kai, Liao , Richter, Laura , Tao, Shiqi , Wallace, Justin , Xing, Hafei , Dagenhart, Richard , Debo, Thomas N.

A joint urban design studio with the School of Architecture and the School of City and Regional Planning. The Georgia Conservancy’s Blueprints for Successful Communities program, in partnership with graduate students from the College of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology, examined four different sites within metro Atlanta, adjacent to the Atlanta BeltLine (Ansley Mall - Peachtree Creek; Bobby Jones Golf Course/Colonial Homes - Peachtree and Clear Creeks; University Avenue - McDaniel Branch; and Boone Boulevard - Proctor Creek) and prepared design proposals incorporating stormwater hydrology assessment and green infrastructure as the foundation for urban design. . Coordinators were: Leah Barnett, Georgia Conservancy; Richard Dagenhart, R.A., Professor, Georgia Tech; Tom Debo, PhD, P.E., Professor, Georgia Tech; Johanna McCrehan, Georgia Conservancy, Katherine Moore, AICP, Georgia Conservancy. Course instructors were Richard Dagenhart and Tom Debo.

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