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Downtown Atlanta 2041: Autonomous Vehicles and A-Street Grids

2016-08 , Dunham-Jones, Ellen , Blakeley, Meredith , Bonn, Sarah Jane , Goldstein, Eric , Huang, Shijia , McMullen, Meghan , Pang, Lu , Payson, Mikhail , Reeves, Blake , Scott, Stacy , Shrestha, Animesh

Downtown Atlanta 2041 is a speculative look 25 years into the future at the opportunities available to build on parking lots and create a walkable network of Class A streets and distinctive neighborhoods around Downtown’s many assets. The design proposals are based on conversations with stakeholders, analysis of current conditions as well as bold assumptions about the future impact of autonomous vehicles. The work was produced by graduate students at Georgia Tech in the Master of Science in Urban Design, (MSUD) spring 2016 studio, under the direction of Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones in the School of Architecture in the College of Design.

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Smyrna Crossroads: A vision for the Spring Road Corridor

2016 , Spandana, Anand , Bedsole, Matt , Cebe, Jack , DeLeon, David , Howard, Jordan , Jeena, Zahra , Kong, Jing , McKinney, Mia , Nord, Anna , Sperling, Elliot , Toroghi, Sean

The City of Smyrna is a thriving community in Cobb County characterized by its Market Village, tight-knit neighborhoods, diverse population, and close proximity to the City of Atlanta. In November 2013, the Atlanta Braves announced plans to relocate outside of the City of Atlanta, constructing a new stadium (Sun Trust Park) and mixed use development (The Battery) at the I-75/I-285 interchange in Cobb County. This sudden relocation of a Major League Baseball team ushered in the potential for substantial development opportunities in the Cumberland Area, a traditionally suburban job center. Smyrna officials – anticipating extensive population and job growth in the main arterial of Spring Road that provides east-west connection from Smyrna Market Village towards the new stadium — sought the assistance of Georgia Tech Masters of City and Regional Planning students, Noell Consulting, and Sizemore Group, to develop a visioning plan for the future of the corridor.

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Activate Atlanta: Reignite East Point

2015-12 , Bonn, Sarah Jane , Collot, Adeline , Li, Mingyang , McMullen, Meghan , Pringle, Jeshua , Reeves, Blake , Wu, Yihan

The Planning Studio from Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of City and Regional Planning program conducted a twelve-week studio on several portions of the MARTA Red Line Corridor in Atlanta. The intent of the studio was to examine equitable transit oriented developments, which are a mix of uses within a walkable radius of a transit stop. Various groups were formed to address different MARTA stations or segments of the corridor. The scope of this document address the East Point MARTA station and surrounding downtown area. Concluding recommendations were formed based on research in transportation, development and urban form, placemaking, and economic development.

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Imagine Our Norcross: Planning for immigrant Integration

2015-12 , Kim, Anna Joo , O’Connell, Katie , Doyle, Jessica , Wilson, Kate , Plante, Jessica , Bowman, Ryan , Shields, Madi , Chang, Eileen , Byars, Kristin , Schleicher, John Eric , Coursey, Nathan

In the spring of 2015, a group of researchers from Georgia Tech’s School of City and Regional Planning created a studio project to collect information about the immigrant populations living and doing business in the city of Norcross, Georgia, as well as the unincorporated parts of the Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District (CID). The goal of the studio was to provide the city of Norcross and the Gwinnett Village CID with two sets of information: one, a portrait of the overall immigrant community—how and where people lived; where they worked; where they played, argued, shopped, and prayed—and two, what this community would need in order to become more engaged in the area’s civic and economic life.

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A Dream Deferred? Utilizing the Limited-Equity Housing Cooperative Model as a Solution to Atlanta's Affordable Housing Issue

2016 , McKinney, Mia

As most of the nation continues to recover from the financial repercussions of the Great Recession, the struggle for housing affordability remains. Home ownership is more difficult to obtain, while rental rates are on an up rise (Hudson, 2016). The traditional “American Dream”—distant and distorted—is more like a nightmare for those whose economic growth is disproportionate to the increasing costs of housing. Even more, new urbanist trends encouraging people to come back to the city, coupled with the sprawling of neighborhoods, create unequitable cities that are divided by race and income. In the Atlanta metropolitan area, the racial wealth gap is delineated geographically between northern and southern communities. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the Cooperative Housing Model and its application as a solution to housing disparities in Atlanta, GA. A review of the literature highlights the Limited-Equity Cooperative Housing (LEHC) model as a viable alternative to affordable housing. An analysis of domestic cooperative housing case studies provide background for the model’s challenges and opportunities. Both inform the final recommendation to utilize the Limited-Equity Housing Cooperative Model as a solution to Atlanta’s affordable housing issue.

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TEP/Westside Studio

2016 , Date, Chirag , Davis, Elizabeth , Dutt, Florina , Queen, Carly , Sanker, Rishi

This studio report acts as a pre-cursor to a feasibility study for the Technology Enterprise Park and Westside neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia.

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University - Community Partnerships for Workforce Development

2015-12 , Albert, Austin , Blaut, Avrahim , Bourget, Jean-Pierre , Kao, Mindy , Snyder Kelly, Anna , Reasoner, Jane , Samarripas, Stefen , Tatum, Kimberly , Welch, Anne , Kim, Anna Joo

Visitors to Georgia Tech need only to walk a few minutes’ distance from campus to find the Westside community, but they will feel like they’re in a different world. Though the area has made a significant cultural contribution to Atlanta, in recent years severe disinvestment has led to high unemployment, high crime rates, low educational attainment, and other problems in the community. While its neighbor to the east, Georgia Tech, has grown and thrived, the Westside has been left behind. Many residents lack even basic computer access, for example, making it even more difficult to find work. This is the situation at the doorstep of an internationally recognized research university; but we don’t have to accept it. This report proposes two areas of focus for Georgia Tech to take action for the Westside: 1. A community RFP program to leverage academic resources for neighboring community projects. 2. Westside-supportive policies in institutional procurement, hiring, and diversity. These recommendations are preliminary, but have been designed with simple and quick implementation in mind.

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Discovering Development and Conservation Opportunities in North Central Florida

2016 , Barrow, Megan , Behera, Abhishek , Boyd, Nico , Burnette, Caroline , Butler, Catherine , Carnes, Sarah , Hanson, Alex , Haston, Joshua , Lele, Shriram , Metal, Melanie , Park, Chulhong , Smyth, Andrew

Our studio was contracted by Weyerhaeuser, a real estate investment trust and one of the world’s largest private owners of timberlands, to develop alternative strategies for managing its 113,000-acre Lake Butler Forest properties in North Central Florida. Our strategies would function as a decision-making aid to guide the future development of the area, taking into account the pros and cons of our final strategies and the potential implications for adjoining landholdings and jurisdictions. In examining future development possibilities and evaluating potential alternative strategies, our team was asked to consider land use, economic development potential, urban design, transportation, and environmental factors to assess current conditions in the study area and identify relevant constraints and opportunities moving forward.

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InternaUonal Urban Design Studio 2016: Shanghai – Disney

2016 , Yang, Perry Pei-Ju , Qian, Steven , Dutt, Florina , Hooper, Corin , Mitchell, Kim , Price, Shelley , Tobey, Michael , Woodworth, Erik , Wu, Yihan , Yanten, Angelica , Qiu, Calvin , Echeverri, Juliana , Koon, John , Ackerman, Hannah , Dartnell, Camilla , Ginn, Olivia , Gwinn, Elizabeth , Heidel, Taryn , Soo, Yong Cheng

The Georgia Tech studio team, consists of urban planning, architecture, and environmental engineering students. The team is assisting the Shen-D Corporation with the creation of evaluative tools and guidelines for integratively designing a near net zero energy community just south of the forthcoming Disneyland theme park in Shanghai, China.

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Atlanta University Center: Neighborhood Study

2015-12 , Boyd, Joseph , Lueders, Abram , Maines, Kat , Riddell, Briana

The following report was produced as a part of Georgia Tech’s Red Line Corridor planning studio. Initially, the goal of this studio was to explore the possibility of transit-oriented development (TOD) in underserved communities along the southern portion of MARTA’s Red Line. However, the scope of the studio was expanded to include communities on Atlanta’s Westside that have also been subject to severe disinvestment. At the end of a selection process, four areas were selected for in-depth study and planning: English Avenue, Atlanta University Center, Fort McPherson / Lee Street, and East Point, GA. While each of these areas has a unique history and set of needs, they also share common challenges. These challenges include a lack of connectivity, and low levels of both private and public investment. But these challenges are only a part of the story. The goal of this studio isn’t to simply point out what’s wrong with the studied communities --it’s to point out what’s right, and to leverage these strengths to overcome any weaknesses that may exist.

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