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    Information Theory as a Measure of Sociodemographic Change
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08) Lancaster, Zachary
    The current discourse around gentrification has been primarily focused on an economic understanding of gentrification. That is, that the gentrification can be primarily viewed through changes in housing prices in an area. That this increase is the sole and primary cause of displacement. While this economic explanation is an important component, it is not the only cause. The image, or perception of, a neighborhood changes as its socio-demographic and socio-economic circumstances change. As these circumstances change a process of replacement occurs and the social ecosystem begins to shift. This leads to the experiential phenomenon of gentrification, where the richness of social life declines as differing views and experiences are removed. This paper proposes a methodology for using metadata, specifically data concerning the entropy, or level of uncertainty or disorder, in demographic data to try to detect these changes and then applies this method to the City of Atlanta, in particular the areas around the Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail.
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    International Urban Design Studio 2018, Kyojima-Sumida District, Tokyo
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-04) Ali, Abaan ; Binder, Robert ; Chen, Boruo ; Coulter, Ghazaleh ; Davis, Tate ; Dyess, Chelsea ; Garcia Baez, Ricardo ; Horadam, Nathaniel ; Kim, Rebekah ; Kimura-Thollander, Phillippe ; Lancaster, Zachary ; Marinelli, Abigail ; McKay, Alyssa ; Sepkowitz, Isabel ; Starbuck, Zachary ; Steidl, Paul ; Tanglao, Jed Mick ; Van Dyke, Rebecca ; Waldon, James ; Walls, Daniel ; Wu, Yanlin ; Yang, Perry Pei-Ju
    The Tokyo Smart City Studio is a practical capstone project housed within the Eco Urban Lab at Georgia Tech’s School of City and Regional Planning and School of Architecture. Throughout the four-month semester, students collaborate on innovative urban design solutions for some of Tokyo’s most important problems. In conjunction with the Global Carbon Project (GCP), the National Institute for Environmental Studies of Japan, the Department of Urban Engineering of the University of Tokyo, and the University of Tsukuba, Georgia Tech Students tackled issues ranging from energy consumption and disaster preparedness to heat stress and a vulnerable elderly population. The group completed five comprehensive reviews, a week-long site visit to Tokyo, multiple workshopping sessions, an Architecture Exposition, and two final reports. The focus area of this year’s studio was Kyojima, a one-half kilometer neighborhood in Sumida-Ku. In the late 19th century, this neighborhood was characterized by paddy fields, marshes, and a few small factories. It’s known for its traditional Japanese crafts, tight alleyways, and wooden tenement housing. The area is dense and in need of revitalization. Kirakira Street, the neighborhood’s once bustling shopping destination, is in substantial economic decline. This document is a detailed report of all student proposals aimed at assisting community members and other Kyojima stakeholders with technological, design, and policy solutions.
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    South Downtown Atlanta: Improvements to the Public Realm
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018) Dunham-Jones, Ellen ; Alzaabi, Mariam ; Choi, Jiho ; Dickinson, Coston ; Dodson, Christy ; Hong, Fenghuan ; Khandekar, Tejas ; Lancaster, Zachary ; Ling, Tianqi ; Rickles, Carley ; Stephen, Sam (Sam Stephen Raj Baskar Sundara Raj) ; Vijayanand, Karen ; Xue, Bowen ; Yao, Zeyue ; Zha, Yilun ; Zhang, Wenyue W. (Winnie)
    A report by the fall 2016 MSUD studio of proposals for immediately implementable and longer-term improvements to the public realm in South Downtown Atlanta and the Government District. Designs for 14 scattered sites focus on issues of Curb Management and Streetscaping; Placemaking and Building Social Capital; Eco-Infrastructure and Urban Heat Island and the establishment of gateways at key entry
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    Cascade Road: Can We Grow the Neighborhood and the Tree Canopy?
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018) Dunham-Jones, Ellen ; Alzaabi, Mariam ; Choi, Jiho ; Dickinson, Coston ; Dodson, Christy ; Hong, Fenghuan ; Khandekar, Tejas ; Lancaster, Zachary ; Ling, Tianqi Bruce ; Rickles, Carley ; Stephen, Sam ; Vijayanand, Karen ; Xue, Bowen ; Yao, Zeyue ; Zha, Yilun ; Zhang, Wenyue W. (Winnie)
    A report by the fall 2017 MSUD studio exploring how to subdivide a heavily wooded, sloping site in a mature suburb so as to both maximize tree canopy and diversification of the existing housing types. The study makes recommendations for revisions to the tree ordinance and development of taller and thinner building types.
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    2017 Urban Design Studio (Urawa Misono)
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-05) Binder, Robert ; Garnett, Dontrey ; Yang, Wenhui ; Zeng, Tianran ; French, Emma ; Moreno, Marcela ; Ray, Ellen ; Veriah, Revathi Roopini ; Brasgalla, Karina ; Koo, Bonwoo ; Lancaster, Zachary ; Pang, Gabriel Jian ; Yang, Perry Pei-Ju
    Urawa Misono is a sub-center of Saitama City, the most populous city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. While Saitama City boasts a population of 1.26 million, Urawa Misono has remained largely rural. Only 45 minutes from Tokyo by rail, it is the final stop on the Saitama Rapid Railway Line. Every two weeks, thousands of soccer fans swarm the station and walk or drive to the Saitama Stadium, constructed in 2002 to host the FIFA World Cup. Saitama Stadium is an important site for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, prompting local and regional officials to consider how they will accommodate the massive influx of event spectators and maximize the impact of this influx for broader development goals. Even without the Olympics, Urawa Misono’s current population is projected to triple in size to over 32,000 by 2030. The challenge of planning in an international context was further compounded by the “smart city” directive. The term “smart city” has become common parlance in urban planning in recent years. While there is no universally agreed upon definition, descriptions of smart cities typically refer to integrated and inter-operable networks of digital infrastructure and information and communication technologies (ICT) that collect and share data and improve the quality of urban life (Allwinkle and Cruickshank 2011; Batty et al. 2012). However, unlike related concepts such as the digital city, the intelligent city and the ubiquitous city, the smart city is not limited to the diffusion of ICT, but also commonly includes people (Albino, Beradi, and Dangelico 2015). Due to the scope and complexity of the project, the Studio came up with the three guiding objectives outlined below through an internal charrette process: Sustainability, Adaptability, and Equity.
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    International Urban Design Studio 2017, Urawa-Misono District, Tokyo
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-04) Aragon, Abigail ; Binder, Robert ; Brasgalla, Karina ; French, Emma ; Garnett, Dontrey ; Hicks, Zachary ; Koo, Bonwoo ; Lancaster, Zachary ; Moreno, Marcela ; Pang, Gabriel Jian ; Ray, Ellen ; Rencurrell, Sean ; Samartzis, Patricia ; Steidl, Paul ; Veriah, Revathi Roopini ; Yang, Wenhui ; Zeng, Tianran ; Yang, Perry Pei-Ju
    In the face of critical concerns about climate change and explosive urban population growth, cities worldwide are beginning to explore how “Smart City” approaches can address these challenges. The 2017 Urban Design Studio explores how the design, planning, and management of cities can create a resilient urban fabric, flexible enough to accommodate ongoing growth and capable of absorbing inevitable future environmental shocks. The Studio investigates one of 2020 Summer Olympic Game sites, Urawa Misono, a satellite town of Tokyo’s metropolitan region, as a pilot for this approach. Working with partners at the University of Tokyo, the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) and the Global Carbon Project (GCP) we explore the role of smart city technologies, ecological performance modeling, and third-party sustainability certifications in designing an alternative future for Urawa Misono. Our resulting proposal is an ecologically responsive, disaster-resilient and human-sensing urban environment. A highly interdisciplinary effort, this studio was led by Dr. Perry Yang (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dr. Yoshiki Yamagata (Global Carbon Project and National Institute for Environmental Studies), and Dr. Akito Murayama (University of Tokyo). Studio participants include Georgia Tech graduate students from architecture, city planning, policy, industrial design and interactive computing.