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The Chattahoochee Brick Company Studio: Envisioning a Commemorative Future

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-05) Abel, Hunter ; Carnell, Phillip ; Coutinho, Pedro ; Hopkins, Alison ; Nyman, Tanning ; Oliverio, Gabrielle ; Roth, Grace ; White, Reginald ; Xie, Ray

Our report aims to function as a vision plan for the development potential of the Chattahoochee Brick Company site and its opportunities for reparative justice. item_description: Our report aims to function as a vision plan for the development potential of the Chattahoochee Brick Company site and its opportunities for reparative justice • Background • Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Analysis • Conversations with various stakeholders in the community and wider surrounding area to determine visions: • Greenspace • Industrial (I-Mix) • Housing/Commercial • Analysis of proposals that includes examples and impacts **Now that the City of Atlanta is starting the process to begin possible acquisition, some of the visions are more likely to occur than others.
Jobs Justice Climate: Redevelopment Proposals for North Dekalb Mall and The Gallery at South Dekalb

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-06-21) Dunham-Jones, Ellen ; Jassu, Joel ; Alfali, Hala ; Barnum, Chris ; Heidelberger, Erin ; Kama, Prerana ; Goncalves, Vitor ; Nanda, Sakshi ; Patel, Harini ; Pham, Quynh ; Raytchev, Luben ; Rudder, Jennie Lynn ; Yu, Zhexin (Josie) ; Zhao, Haungzhe

Hypothetical redevelopment and reinhabitation urban design proposals are presented for both shopping malls to help the local DeKalb County Commissioners and their constituents envision and discuss options of what change might look like guided by Green New Deal goals.
Housing for the cost burdened: a step toward a just society

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-01) Dyott, Sarah ; McKinney, Michaela ; Newman, Ian ; Thompson, Brock ; Mykulyn, Bryan ; Durham, Audra ; Lapwood, Bonnie ; Miller, Bryce ; Murphy, Eirin ; Zou, Nina ; Chapman, Olivia ; Yap, Soo Huey ; Wong, Summer

Affordable housing is one of Atlanta, Georgia’s most pressing, pervasive, and persistent urban planning crises. Additionally, the advent of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the preexisting affordable housing issues across housing security, demographics, the supply and demand of affordable housing policy, and the health of low-income housing occupants. This report aims to address these issues, as they currently persist in Atlanta, and offer recommendations and considerations for their solutions. This document consists of four sections: Affordable Housing Finance in the City of Atlanta, Wealth Divide and Housing, Homelessness, Health & Hazards. A case study of Atlanta’s Healthy Hotel Project, and the Nexus of Housing, Transit, and Jobs. This report was created by graduate students in the master’s in City and Regional Planning Program (MCRP) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in collaboration with multiple local stakeholders. Though this report will not solve the affordable housing issue in the city of Atlanta, it will address the current conditions and numerous challenges associated with affordable housing in Atlanta and will offer a pointed recommendation to create a path toward solutions for these wicked problems.
Retrofitting Suburbia's Missing Middle

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-05-04) Dunham-Jones, Ellen ; Bharadwaj, Aditi ; Doyle, George, IV ; Gao, Wanli ; Jassu, Joel ; Khalid, Emily ; Kroi, Eleni ; Kumar, Shreya ; Macbeth, Josh ; Wang, Jun

What if affordable, missing middle scale intergenerational housing and retrofitted intersections were designed to address the loneliness epidemic, autonomous vehicles, climate change, and the shrinking middle class? Four teams of graduate students received stakeholder input on their proposals to each of these topics at the intersection of By Pass Road and Jackson Highway where Covington, GA meets Newton County. The proposals are intended to assist Covington residents and those with similar suburban intersections envision how they might be relocalized to be more community-serving.
Tokyo Smart City Design at Shinagawa

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-05) Barnum, Christopher L. ; Bolden, Willie M. ; Colburn, Ryan L. ; O-charoen, Natcha ; Pedrick, David J. ; Starbuck, Zachary W. ; Zhen, Shuhui ; Baldwin, Ashley S. ; Bernard, Violet F. ; Blumenthal, Danielle L. ; Dhurkunde, Akhilesh V. ; Doyle, George P. ; Dunham, Andrew ; Kokitkar, Bhaswini B. ; Kroi, Eleni ; Peng, Cynthia ; Sisson, Danielle M. ; Slep, Hannah L. ; Wang, Jun ; Watson, Alexandra D. ; Zahin, Sanjana ; Yang, Perry Pei-Ju

The Tokyo smart city project is an international collaboration from 2016 to 2020 between the Eco Urban Lab of School of City and Regional Planning and School of Architecture at Georgia Tech, Global Carbon Project (GCP), the National Institute for Environmental Studies of Japan, and the Department of Urban Engineering of the University of Tokyo. Tokyo provides a living urban laboratory for designing complex urban settings, agglomerations of physical, cultural and technological systems. The Tokyo Smart City Studio in Spring 2020 investigates Shinagawa and its surroundings at the Tokyo Bay waterfront area in the context of new maglev high speed rail station area development, one of the biggest urban development projects in the City of Tokyo of the next decade. The operation of the new high-speed maglev rail station from 2030 will make Shinagawa a 70-70 new gateway, 70 minutes from Tokyo to Osaka for a region with 70 million population. The new infrastructure will compress the concept of space and time, and will change the inter-cities relation. Its future city vision will have profound impact to the urban forms, functions and experiences of the city. The project aims to develop a test bed of urban systems design to demonstrate how a smart community is designed, evaluated, and implemented in Japan by incorporating governmental agencies, stakeholders and communities, with focuses on urban design and modeling, urban analytics of big data, Internet of Things (IoT), smart mobility and eco urban performance evaluation.
Making Cataño Count

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020) Apollon, Celine ; As-Salaam, Kamau ; Braun, Jonathan ; Ferreira, Andrea ; Hart, Haley ; Highfield, Robert ; Lim, Matthew ; Jones-Bynes, Jasmine ; Prendergast, Kyla

The School of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech hosted its second iteration of its Planning Studio master’s requirement in Puerto Rico in Spring of 2020. This year’s studio focused on the United States Decennial Census efforts for 2020. Puerto Rico, as an underrepresented territory within the United States, was a driving motivator for this project. The studio was assigned to Cataño, a small municipality just across the bay from the capital, San Juan. Cataño faces disproportionate levels of hard-to-count and underrepresented populations within the greater metropolitan area. Both the Cataño government and Puerto Rican Planning Board were assigned as the studio’s clients.
Tide to Town: Rapid Health Impact Assessment of Savannah’s Tide to Town Urban Trail System

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020) Zhu, Kevin ; Igietseme, Nene ; Jones-Bynes, Jasmine

The Tide to Town Rapid Health Impact Assessment (HIA) was conducted as part of a studio assignment at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). The purpose of the HIA is to evaluate the potential health and social impacts of the proposed Tide to Town trail in Savannah, Georgia.
Puerto Rico Disaster Mitigation and Recovery Studio

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-05) Baggett, Anna ; Borsch, Adam ; Brice, Paul-Emile ; Cooper, Carson ; DeMerritt, Paul ; Friedman, Mirit ; Gao, Meng ; Geronimo, Laura ; Johnson, Jennifer ; Johnson, Nicholas ; Morales, Roberto ; Schlom, Ryan ; Tucker, William

This student-driven studio was a response to the widespread devastation left by two powerful hurricanes, Hurricane María and Hurricane Irma, that impacted Puerto Rico in 2017. Driven by their concern for Puerto Rico’s population, students with close ties to the island proposed a joint studio with the University of Puerto Rico’s Graduate School of Planning (EGP). Faculty at SCaRP and EGP ran parallel courses and an exchange program, which was awarded support from the APA Foundation Disaster Grant. Overall, the studio had two main objectives: • To develop a transferable model to channel planning assistance to other vulnerable communities – one which captures local and institutional resources and talent. • To enhance the capacity of next-generation planners to manage climate change issues and devise transferable tools and analytics that strengthen the planning capability of local communities and organizations.
International Urban Design Studio 2019, Kyojima

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-05) Yang, Perry Pei-Ju ; Campbell, Warren ; Carpenter, Sophia ; Chen, Helen ; Everhart, Justina ; Gibbs, Taylor ; Karam, Christopher ; Leising, Robert ; McCoy, Trevor ; Raytchev, Luben ; Saha, Nirvik ; Sit, Elizabeth

The 2019 Tokyo Smart City studio is a semester-long project housed within the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) Eco Urban Lab. In collaboration with the Global Carbon Project (GCP), the National Institute for Environmental Studies of Japan (NIES), the Department of Urban Engineering of the University of Tokyo, and the University of Tsukuba, students built upon the work of the 2018 studio to address critical issues facing Kyojima. An assessment of existing conditions was conducted prior to the field visit. Figures and statistics were generated using data acquired from the NIES Core Team and other various online resources. The area of interest was divided into segments based on the appropriate scale. The Spring Tokyo workshop was a collaborative effort among the Georgia Tech team and its sponsors.
Equitable, Ecological, Transit-Oriented Development

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019) Dunham-Jones, Ellen ; Alawamleh, Yasmeen ; Ashok, RajhaSurya ; Dave, Neerja ; Duan, Ruiyan ; Ghosh, Debmalya ; Huang, Shuyi ; Johnson, Jennifer ; Li, Siqi ; Ma, Hoaxing ; Moo-Young, Tiffany ; Majid, Moutushi ; Oh, Yeinn ; Siodmok, Naomi ; Xu, Jingxin

What if the proposed MARTA light rail down Campbellton Road to the proposed new transit hub near the Greenbriar Mall were designed to drive revitalization in the area that was equitable and ecological? Six proposals by teams of Georgia Tech MS in Urban Design graduate students present different answers to that fundamental question. These proposals are intended to help community members and stakeholders envision a range of possibilities and foster conversations about desired futures.