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Sustainable Neighborhood Redesign
Sustainable Neighborhood Redesign
This sustainable neighborhood redesign concept of the Evelyn City subdivision of
Tampa, Florida is based upon three of the seven prescriptions from the Boone’s and
Modarres’s “Pathways to a Sustainable Urban Future” subsection in City and
Environment (2006) as outlined below:
1. A sustainable future must be Smart: creating an urban future that improves quality of life, while continuing to make cities vibrant, progressive, energetic, and inviting places to live.
2. Build the city around the person rather than the car. 3. Built forms must include careful planning, more flexible zoning and redesign to
shape the environment to suit our needs and wishes of people at a human scale.
The sustainable neighborhood conceptualization stemmed from an initial
Neighborhood Audit (see appendix for complete audit presentation), which identified the
following significant community
resources that already existed
within the area (see area
Location Map in Figure 1 at
right):
Figure 1 Neighborhood Location
5 Schools 3 Churches 10 Stores 28 Bus Stops 13 Parks 4 Businesses 12 Empty Houses 2 Bike Paths
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Taking these elements into consideration,
the proposed neighborhood redesign discussed
herein expands on the existing land uses to create 1)
Bike Paths; 2) Red-to-Green for Empty Houses; 3)
Urban Agriculture Innovation Project; and 4)
Entrepreneurial Center. See existing Land Use Map
in Figure 2 at right.
Increased Mobility – Addition of Bike Paths The fact that there are 28 bus stops located
within one-square-mile in the Evelyn City
subdivision indicates a community need for
increased and alternative transportation options.
This fact suggests that the sustainable redesign of the Evelyn City community should address
connectivity and mobility. According to architect and urban designer Douglas Farr, Sustainable
Urbanism necessitates neighborhoods to have abundant options for walking, riding, biking, and
wheelchair access and connectivity to neighboring destinations (Farr 2007, p. 45). Vikas
Mehta’s (2008) work on walkable streets references doctoral student Mariela A. Alfonzo (2005),
who defines the first-order needs for walking as feasibility and accessibility in her “Hierarchy of
Walking Needs.” According to Alfonzo, it is necessary to determine the feasibility for residents
to access desired locations by walking. This includes the feasible elements of mobility, such as
determining whether a person is healthy enough to walk and whether there is sufficient time to
reach a destination; and time availability for walking to any given destination based on a
person’s related personal responsibilities.
Figure 2
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The community resources listed in the initial Neighborhood Audit (see appendix for
complete presentation) indicates that there are a substantial number of destinations suitable for
walking, which addresses Alfonzo’s accessibility issue. Calthorpe’s (1993) discussion on New
Urbanism states that a Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) should have an average of 2,000 ft.
of walking distance. This is slightly more than the 1/4 mile recommended by LEED 2009.
Alfonzo (2005) also mentions that “70% of people will walk 500 ft. for errands, only 40% will
walk 1/5 mile and only 10% of people will walk half a mile (Southworth, 1997).” Thus, biking
should be equally considered.
To meet Boone’s and Modarres’s (2006) first prescription for “smart” connectivity, I
proposed an expansion of area bike paths which make cities “vibrant, progressive, energetic, and
inviting places to live.” Bikes provide an additional level of connectivity beyond just walking.
Importantly, Simmons et al. noted that
street-scale redesigns to promote biking
increases biking by 23% (Farr 2007, p.
149). As noted in Figure 3 at right, there
are currently two bike paths identified in
the area, as marked in dark green, one at
Rowlett Park and another north of Sulfur
Springs. The Rowlett Park location is
ideal for expansion, since Van Buren Middle School is located directly north of the park site
along 22nd Street at E. Busch Blvd. To enhance community connectivity by connecting a school
to a park would be “smart” meeting Boone’s and Modarres’s first prescription. Doing this
Figure 3 Bike Paths Are marked out in Dark Green
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connection with a bike path would also be person-centered instead of car-centered, meeting
Boone’s and Modarres’s second prescription.
The proposed bike paths would be installed across the river at the 22nd Street Park,
directly north of Sligh Middle School which is located at E. Sligh Ave and N. 22nd Street.
Middle school age children are old enough to bike to school. Connecting these two parks with
bike paths would enhance the community connectivity and be twice as smart; this path then
connects two schools and two parks to improve quality of life. The schools are approximately 2
miles apart, while 22nd Street Park is 0.5 mile north of Sligh Middle and Van Buren Middle is
0.25 mile north of Rowlett Park. The 200 feet currently connecting the parks is an existing
sidewalk along Rowlett Park Drive crossing the Hillsborough River. This connective sidewalk
over the river could be more established with widening and/or adding bollards for pedestrian
separation from the car traffic, as the existing crossing is hazardous. Tampa already has high
traffic fatalities as noted in Figure 5.4 also from Boone and Modarres, (2006):
To meet Boone’s and Modarres’s third prescription, a flexible sustainable redesign
achieving human needs requires that the 22nd Street Bike Path be remade as a hard surface. This
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path was previously constructed as a mulch path, which
proved to be unsustainable and difficult to use.
Runners would often be seen following adjacent to the
path, instead of on top of the mulch, which was not a
solid surface for good stability and smooth running.
The mulch was also not suitable for bikers or other
wheeled transport. Rowlett Park has a young
population of joggers and walkers who bike,
rollerblade and push baby strollers, carts and
wheelchairs for morning and afternoon exercise.
Extending this similar hard surface found at Rowlett
Park through to the 22nd Street Park would allow for a figure-eight track with approximately a
mile on either side of the river. A straight path could also be included for pedestrians to travel
directly from school to school; which is another “smart” prescription to meet Boone and
Modarres by making the area an inviting place to live. See Figure 4 with the 1/4 mile circles
walking distances, around area schools and paths shown in red.
Figure 4
Finally, the existing mulch path at the 22nd Street Park was overgrown and lost in the
grass within a single year, while the asphalt hard surface in Rowlett Park is expected to last over
30 years with only minor crack repairs every 3-5 years1. Mehta (2008) further references
Southworth (2005), who defined “six criteria for the design of a successful walking
environment.” These criteria included connectivity, linkage with other modes, fine-grained land-
use patterns, safety, path quality, and path context. Connectivity has been addressed while the
proposed hard surfaces would provide for three of the other criteria. The hard surface allows
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easy wheelchair access from the paths to the buses traversing the area. This hard surface would
provide a safe smooth quality surface for wheeled pedestrians, including biking and roller
blading, and could be constructed from permeable and/or recycled materials. Thus, this surface
will be more sustainable for economic maintenance, pedestrian usability and public safety as
shown in Figure 5 below:
Bike Path requires additional northern connection to Rowlett Park across existing bridge.
Red-2-Green for Empty Houses The square-mile Evelyn City neighborhood
area has over 12 Empty Houses identified in the
initial Neighborhood Audit (see appendix for
complete presentation). Depicted in Figure 6 at
right, the surrounding areas have a glut of homes for
sale, which resulted from the housing market bubble
that has caused a similar problem throughout the
nation. For example, the City of Detroit, Michigan has initiated a Red-to-Green process to
increase the density of their city, while converting empty suburbs back into farm lands. Detroit’s
Figure 5 22nd Street Park Bike Path. The before construction image is in the Appendix.
Figure 6 Vacant Houses
Revised 22nd Street Park Entrance directed away from bike path, towards parking area for the existing ball fields.
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population of nearly 2 million in the 1950’s has dropped to less than 1 million, resulting in
33,500 empty houses and 91,000 empty lots that the city can't afford to cover with police and fire
protection; and other services (The Washington Times, 2010). Detroit plans to demolish 10,000
houses in the next three years. As Von Borcke (2009) mentioned, the solution to the 'urban
exodus' included “more public and private green space in cities in the form of urban parks,
communal gardens, gardens, roof terraces, balconies, and so forth.”
Demolition of vacant properties in Tampa is not ideal without recycling the derived
components, as Aaron McKeon, AICP (2010) recommends. A better alternative as proposed
here, came from the 2008 vacant land study in Cleveland, Ohio, which resulted in the “Re-
imagining Cleveland” movement to promote resident stewardship of vacant city lands. This
initiative has demonstrated how empowering citizens to reuse vacant land promotes
entrepreneurship, community engagement and an increased quality of life through restored
environmental functions (Zautner, 2011). Similar to Detroit, this effort utilized urban agriculture
to encourage community sustainability options. This is "smart" meeting Boone’s and Modarres's
first prescription by creating “more progressive, energetic, and inviting opportunities for
residents.”
Similarly, I propose as a redesign option that the vacant properties in this Tampa
neighborhood are redeveloped to support urban agriculture. The suggestions that the Obama
administration might be interested in supporting the bulldozing (Glaeser, 2009) of vacant
properties opens opportunities for using community redevelopment grants. Youngston Ohio
Mayor Jay Williams in seeking to “right-size his city,” found that “parks are better than
abandoned buildings” (Glaeser, 2009). However, sustainable development is all about building
within the existing city area, rather than on greenfield land outside of cities. Infill redevelopment
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means reusing and restoring land that is already built, to limit further suburban sprawl (Wheeler,
2002), which supports community redevelopment in this Tampa neighborhood as a sustainable
option.
Florida also has a Residential Construction Mitigation Program funded by the legislature
for $7 million annually from the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Trust Fund (Florida Statutes
215.559(2)a) to improve wind resistance of residences. As demonstrated by FEMA’s Operation
Blue Roof 2 the weather in Florida impacts housing roofs significantly. The advertised “30-
year” life for the trusses and tar roof shingles construction typically leaks within 5-10 years in
Florida, approaching complete failure in less than 12 to 14 years.3 Thus, a significant
neighborhood redevelopment effort focused on more sustainable roof structure and design is
necessary; meeting Boone’s and Modarres's third prescription of redesign “to suit needs and
wishes of people at a human scale.” My personal inspection of the three homes abandoned on
my street, indicate that they all have leaky roofs. This neighborhood has the 1950’s construction
of flat tar and gravel roofs. This labor intensive construction design has been replaced with
shingles and modified bitumen tar products in some locations of the neighborhood. Florida
industries have placed men on the moon from the Cape Canaveral site of NASA, but have not
stepped beyond this inadequate roofing system, which is not suitable for the environment in
Florida. Rebuilding the vacant neighborhood structures represents a significant redesign option
that will make the area more sustainable meeting all three of Boone’s and Modarres’s
prescriptions. This highlights the benefits for the next proposed sustainable redevelopment
option: an Urban Agriculture Innovation Project.
Urban Agriculture Innovation Project The concept of sustainable development does imply limits—not absolute limits but limitations imposed by the present state of technology and
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social organization on environmental resources and by the ability of the biosphere to absorb the effects of human activities (Kates et al., 2005)
Figure 7 Innovation
As Kates et al., (2005) defined above,
the present “state of technology” sets the
limits for what is considered sustainable
development. The innovation depicted in
Figure 7 at right, is an invention that utilizes
improved technologies to support multiple
sustainability purposes, which can provide a
sustainable improvement to this
neighborhood. This structure is built with
polycarbonate panels, which meet the
hurricane standards for Florida and have a life expectancy of over 25 years.4 This polycarbonate
represents a significant improvement over the existing roofing technologies thus, this
neighborhood improvement is “smart," meeting Boone’s and Modarres's first prescription
creating vibrant and progressive places to live.
The Rainwater Capture Greenhouse will be more sustainable for the Florida environment
than the currently used tar and fiberglass shingles, which are inferior. This innovative system
also allows for the collection of rainwater to reduce stormwater runoff and the associated non-
point pollution, providing another sustainable feature. Sustainable Urbanism seeks to filter
stormwater with the neighborhood and adjacent open space (Farr, 2007, p. 43). The
polycarbonate panels are secured to a steal pipe frame which holds the rainwater collected with
roof gutter around the structure. Each roof, gutter, pipe section is separated by valves where
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collected water is stored for connection to a drop irrigation system to irrigate the interior of the
structure or other adjacent areas. Similarly the pipes secured to the ground could be left open
allowing for one corner of the structure to collect and store rainwater which then infiltrates into
the ground through the open pipes. There are also significant water treatment technologies
available to add to the structure. Another corner supporting pipe could be filled with water
treatment resins, or charcoal, or even sand and gravel which will help to purify the water that
drains through the bottom of the pipe. Thus, one corner of the structure could be configured to
provide irrigation waters, another could provide for groundwater recharge and another could
provide potable water simply by adjusting how the pipe is filled and emptied. Thus, the
proposed innovative system could be built to hold water for groundwater recharge or use the
captured waters for irrigation, providing additional sustainable features to meet people’s needs in
many Florida neighborhoods. This will meet Boone’s and Modarres's third prescription of
redesign to suit human needs and wishes of people at a human scale.
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The City of Tampa website5 lists multiple pages of water data, including incentives for
low-flow housing water fixtures and other means to reduce water consumption. Internationally,
the US is the number one water user, as
represented in Figure 8.6 The Tampa
online water use calculator7 lists the
normal water use in Tampa to be 199
gpd which is 130% of the national
average of 152 gpd.
To provide more detail about
the sustainable features this innovation
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can provide, consider a single resident within this neighborhood, living in the typical 1950's
house, on a 1/4 acre lot with the typical 4.4 feet of rain landing in Florida each year; will have
48,088 cf of water landing on it as rainfall. Of this, the stormwater runoff could be as much as
275,190 gallons/year, which is about 754 gpd or enough water for nearly four people to live in
Tampa if all this water were collected by using this innovation.
Thus, using the innovation as a roof structure over existing
homes would represent a significant improvement with this
array of sustainability features.
Figure 9 Greenhouse
The original innovative greenhouse structure, as shown
in Figure 9, was designed as a small herb garden for a single
residence. The primary feature of the Rainwater Capture
Greenhouse was rainwater collection for automatic irrigation of the plants within the structure
designed by a resident since Tampa residents currently have irrigation restrictions.8 Growing
herbs at home instead of driving to a store to buy them is another sustainable feature of this
innovation, which is also person centered instead of car centered meeting Boone’s and
Modarres's second prescription.
However, when combined with the other sustainable features mentioned above, using this
structure to replace the roofs of dilapidated or vacant homes will allow for creating new
entrepreneurial opportunities. This is similar to how Cleveland, Ohio’s “Re-imagining
Cleveland” movement empowered citizens’ entrepreneurship (Zautner, 2011). Additionally, this
will meet Boone’s and Modarres's first prescription of being "smart” for a vibrant, progressive,
and inviting place to live.
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In summary, using this new technology provide sustainable benefits including hurricane
strength polycarbonate panels for roof structures. The collection of rainwater reduces
stormwater runoff, and can provide for groundwater recharge or using the captured waters for
irrigation or potable supplies. See Figure 10 for before and after photo’s for new roof
redevelopment. The ease of irrigation allows for creating a sustainable urban agriculture option
for citizen food production and/or entrepreneurial development which leads to our next and final
sustainable redevelopment proposal for this neighborhood.
Figure 10 Installed Rainwater Capture Greenhouse
Depicted below is the typical 1950’s flat tar and gravel roof system replaced with the Greenhouse structure that has new sustainable features including: collects rainwater, reduces runoff, reduces hurricane damage and provides 6-8 feet of greenhouse space for urban gardening area.
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Entrepreneurial Center Figure 11 Commercial Corridor
Several businesses are located along this roadway outlined in red, including a shipping
This culmination of all the sustainable
initiatives discussed is apparent with closer
inspection of the neighborhood. For example,
there is a commercial industrial corridor already
in place, where entrepreneurs frequent as
depicted in Figure 11. The local gas station has
been transformed into a vegetable stand, clothing outlet, car wash, detail shop and music store as
various entrepreneurs move in to sell their wears on the busy street within the last several years.
Adjacent to this location is a storage facility for shipping containers. Shipping containers are
used for shipping 90% of the world’s goods. The typical $1,500-$2,000 dry freight container is
40’x8’x8.5’ to carry 2,376 cubic feet of consumer goods. It is recognized that these containers
are used a few times by exporters and then discarded. Thus, a new industry has developed using
shipping containers for construction, including home construction.9 Similarly, an entreprenuer
converted an Atlanta brownfield into a urban garden project using discarded shipping containers.
It has been so successful; he is in the process of expanding to other areas of Atlanta and other
markets.10
Adjacent to the shipping container site is another 22 acre vacant property which the
owner attempted to redevelop into a warehouse to encourage small enterprises. Combining
these ideas already present in the community with the Rainwater Capture Greenhouse would
allow for the easy creation of a sustainable Entrepreneurial Center. It would also add new
sustainable opportunities for home-based businesses and job training for low income residents.
Shipping containers could be reconfigured with Greenhouses to be added to vacant lots to grow
vegetables year round. Shipping containers could be reconfigured with the tools and equipment
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for building Greenhouse roofs. Shipping containers could also be reconfigured for new
businesses for the maintenance and upkeep of the Greenhouses and the resulting gardens creating
more green jobs. Other containers could be configured to support farmers markets and other
related industries as individuals step up to pursue new entrepreneurial opportunities. As
Peemoeller et al. found “communities thrive when people are empowered to grow their own
food” (Farr, 2007, p 180)
These entrepreneurial ideas related to this neighborhood and the related patents obtained
by USF will function similarly to the proven successes resulting from the Cleveland Botanical
Garden’s Green Corps, which has trained hundreds of kids to garden on vacant urban land:
“They have a strategy to attract kids from around the way, and build them up with an entrepreneur’s instinct at this state-of-the-art urban agriculture and training center.” (Lefkowitz, 2011)
This neighborhood location is ideal for this as well, being situated between two middle
schools. Lefkowitz went on to describe other community programs that started across the road
from the Green Corp’s greenhouse including “a city park with a swing set and a basketball court
where they plan to introduce kids to environmental science and urban agriculture through a
program called ‘Shoot Hoops, Not Guns.’ They would like to launch a farmer’s market on their
property, and are talking to the founder of Soul Vegetarian restaurant about running a food cart.”
Similarly, the US Department of Agriculture supported $1.6 million for the economic
development project of the Ohio Neighborhood Harvest Initiative “to create entrepreneurial
opportunities for Cleveland residents by transforming vacant lots into productive landscapes that
encourage community stewardship.”11
Thus, these sustainable redevelopments proposed will enable this Tampa neighborhood to
begin with the Rainwater Capture Greenhouse invention to collect rainwater and support urban
agriculture. The Entrepreneurial Center will simultaneously allow for the students and residents
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to get more progressive in the use of water and the enhanced growing opportunities that these
greenhouses with abundant water supplies allow. As the small greenhouse structures were
designed to retain sufficient water for irrigation, building the larger structures over homes will
result in a significant increase in the available water. Thus, allowing another opportunity to
create a more sustainable system based on water energies. As noted in Figure 12, the Continuous
Moving Sidewalk Pedestrian Transport System can be used to create a single loop for water
transfer around a neighborhood block.
Figure 12 Sidewalk Patent The Continuous Moving Sidewalk is a rubber track made of recycled car tires to float on a river of pressurized water to sustain pedestrians, powered to move in circles by water pressure.
The construction of two
Greenhouses strategically placed along
the bike path outlined in sustainable
redevelopment proposal one above,
provides enough water collection to
support this track placed upon the hard
surface bike path previously completed.
This meets all Boone’s and Modarres's
prescriptions: would be very "smart" in
allowing walkers to move as fast as
bikers where the moving sidewalks
provide connections between the schools
and neighborhoods. It would also be
person centered instead of car centered
since cars will no longer be necessary in the neighborhood for daily travel and schooling activity.
And meet the third prescription of redesigning to shape the environment to suit human needs and
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wishes of people at a human scale as people can walk and move about more freely without the
threat of cars. This provides for the fourth prescription of the sustainable city by internalizing
externalities that the petroleum and auto industry imposes on the community since people and
businesses behavior changes to promote sustainability by walking instead of driving. A fifth
sustainability prescription is reached where citizens walk more and adopt the broader conception
of health through this walking exercise and local work and food production consuming locally
produced nutritious foods and clean water and avoiding the driving risks. Adding new
greenhouse structures thoughout the neighborhood would allow for additional moving sidewalks
(see Figure 13), creating true “River Walks” where a river of water moves the walkers. The
sixth sustainable prescription of promotion of justice and equity is achieved by the
entrepreneurial center where citizens get equal access to community resources earning their keep
fairly amongst peers.
Figure 13
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The seventh prescription of looking to the past for livable examples has been
demonstrated throughout this report as examples came from the areas of Detroit and Cleveland.
This is also compatible with Hawkens (1994) providing more local production and distribution
within small communities as depicted below in Figure 14
Figure 14 Rowlett Park Dr Commercial District
Construction team assembling another Greenhouse onto a shipping container
Greenhouse structures supporting farmers Markets
Consumers exploring neighborhood on Continuous Moving Sidewalk
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Endnotes 1 MXP Asphalt Tampa, FL, Asphalt Maintenance: Driveway Asphalt Maintenance From www.nationalcontractors.com, Retrieved May 2011 from: http://tampasealcoating.net/tampa-sealcoating-asphalt-maintenance.php 2 Operation Blue Roof , Release Date: October 2, 2004, Release Number: 1539-164. Retrieved May 2011 from: http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=14614 3 U.S. Inspect; 3650 Concorde Pkwy Suite 100 Chantilly, VA 20151. Retrieved May 2011 from: http://www.usinspect.com/resources-for-you/house-facts/basic-components-and-systems-home/roofs/materials 4 National Associate of Home Builders. NAHB Research Center. Retrieved May 2011 from: http://www.toolbase.org/Technology-Inventory/Interior-Partitions-Ceilings/translucent-wall-ceiling-panels 5 Saving Our Precious Water Resources, City of Tampa. Retrieved May 2011 from: http://www.tampagov.net/dept_Water/information_resources/Saving_water/index.asp?sitemenuhide=y 6 Average Water Use. United Nations Development Program, Human Development Report 2006. Retrieved May 2011, http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=757 7 Water Use Calculator, City of Tampa. Retrieved May 2011 from: http://www.tampagov.net/dept_water/information_resources/Saving_water/Water_use_calculator.asp 8 Water Use Restrictions, City of Tampa (page last reviewed: 12/29/10). Retrieved May 2011 from: http://www.tampagov.net/dept_water/information_resources/restrictions/ 9 Runkle Consulting, Shipping Container House – Atlanta. Retrieved May 2011 from: http://www.runkleconsulting.com/Container%20House/Shipping%20Container%20House.htm 10 PodPonics LLC 563 Ponce de Leon Ave NW Atlanta, GA 30312 404.819.2694 Retrieved May 2011 from: http://www.podponics.com 11 USDA, Ohio Department of Agriculture, City of Cleveland, OSU Extension Partner on Urban Agriculture Incubator Pilot Project: Project Embodies Gov. Ted Strickland’s Ohio Neighborhood Harvest Initiative. Retrieved May 2011 from: http://www.agri.ohio.gov/public_docs/news/2010/10-27-10%20Cleveland%20Urban%20Agriculture%20Incubator%20Pilot%20Program.pdf
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Neighborhood Audit Slide 1
Spring 2011
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ARC 5931Instructors:– Shawn Landry, Associate in Research, Florida Center for Community Design & Research
– Vikas Mehta, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Community Design– Urban and Community Design Program– School of Architecture & Community Design, College of The Arts
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Community Location
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South From USF
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Almost Evelyn
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South of the River
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Study Area
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What’s Here?
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Schools
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Stores
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Churches
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Buses
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Parks
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Business
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Empty Houses
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Bike Paths
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5 Improvement Ideas
1. Bike Trials
2. Community Gardens
3. Entrepreneurial Center
4. Red‐2‐Green
5. Innovation Project
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Build bike trials
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Build Community Gardens
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Establish Entrepreneurial Center
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Red‐2‐Green
• Include foreclosure
• empty lands combine 2 & 3
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Innovation Project
• Create Green Icon
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CGN 4933/6933 Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities
LEED EBOMCenter for Urban Transportation Research
Project Presentations
Tuesday Nov 30, 3:15 pm Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR)
building Room 102
Instructor: Prof. Daniel YehDept. of Civil & Environmental EngineeringUniversity of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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Proposal 3:
• Innovative Inventions
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Rainwater CaptureGreen Roof
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Any Questions?
• Another Patent?
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Spring 2011
Sustainable Neighborhood
RedesignARC 5931
Instructors:– Shawn Landry, Associate in Research, Florida Center for Community Design & Research– Vikas Mehta, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Community Design– Urban and Community Design Program– School of Architecture & Community Design, College of The Arts
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Outline
• Neighborhood Location
• What’s there
• Community Resources
• Top 4 Improvements
• Summary
• Any Questions?
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Community Location
• South From USF
• South of the River
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What’s Here?
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Community Resources
• 5 Schools• 3 Churches• 10 Stores• 28 Buses• 13 Parks• 4 Business• 12 Empty
Houses• 2 Bike Paths
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4 Improvement Ideas
1. Bike Trials
2. Red‐2‐Green for Empty Houses
3. Urban Agriculture Innovation Project
4. Entrepreneurial Center
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#1 Build Bike Trials
• Petitioned City for Park
• Created 22nd Street Park
• Created Mulch Trail
• Plans for Paved Path
• Add Osprey Poles
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Build Real Bike Trail
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Connect Bike Trails
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#2 Red‐2‐Green
• Take Down Foreclosure
• Use Empty Lands
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Empty Houses
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#3 Innovation Project
• Innovative Inventions
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Urban Agriculture
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Rainwater CaptureGreen Roof
• Create Green Icon
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#4 Entrepreneurial Center
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Recycle Containers
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4 Improvement Ideas
1. Bike Trials
2. Red‐2‐Green for Empty Houses
3. Urban Agriculture Innovation Project
4. Entrepreneurial Center
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Any Questions?