Showing posts with label Lore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lore. Show all posts
Friday, December 5, 2014
P3 - A Video That Confirms Our Explorations
This is from ETH Zurich Future Cities Course. I watched this video last week as part of the online edx course. I was encouraged by the content because it mentions much of what we have dealt with all semester. This confirms our explorations for this semester and makes it possible for us to imagine the possible transformative effects of thinking about and designing innovative urban changes that no one has thought about or presented before. These changes are necessary to make Orlando and Orange County the best environment for all to thrive. Do your best work for Monday.
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Ravaudage / Mixed-use Development
This 50+ acre development has been many years in the making; a large once unincorporated and overlooked strategically located collection of properties, with the potential to be one of the best connected and most sought after pieces of real estate in central florida. The land is nested between the predominantly affluent cities of Winter Park and Maitland, just a few miles from I-4 and on the path of the Sunrail. This area provides the connectivity and location desirability to make a large mixed use development successful.
Meeting minutes for the The CITY OF WINTER PARK PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE ADVISORY BOARD , this document touches on the connectivity possibilities of the development
An article on Winter Park's annexation of the Ravaudage development
Previous gentrification of Hannibal Square after the intervention of the same developer
A highlight: Developer tells Orange, Winter Park: Pay up for my redevelopment project, which touches on the impact of this and previous redevelopments on the community.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Cady Way Articles
Here is a collection of news articles on the Cady Way trail so we can analyze potential good and bad.
Monday, November 17, 2014
Sunday, November 16, 2014
The Racial Dot Map
The Racial Dot Map
This follows from Deron's post "Population Density Mapping". Thanks Deron.
"This map is an American snapshot; it provides an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity of the American people in every neighborhood in the entire country. The map displays 308,745,538 dots, one for each person residing in the United States at the location they were counted during the 2010 Census. Each dot is color-coded by the individual's race and ethnicity. The map is presented in both black and white and full color versions. In the color version, each dot is color-coded by race.
All of the data displayed on the map are from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 Summary File 1 dataset made publicly available through the National Historical Geographic Information System. The data is based on the "census block," the smallest area of geography for which data is collected (roughly equivalent to a city block in an urban area).
The map was created by Dustin Cable, a former demographic researcher at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Brandon Martin-Anderson from the MIT Media Lab and Eric Fischer, creator of social media dot maps, deserve credit for the original inspiration for the project. This map builds on his work by adding the Census Bureau's racial data, and by correcting for mapping errors."
-from "what am I looking at?" link.
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| Orlando Region Zom of Racial Dotmap |
This follows from Deron's post "Population Density Mapping". Thanks Deron.
"This map is an American snapshot; it provides an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity of the American people in every neighborhood in the entire country. The map displays 308,745,538 dots, one for each person residing in the United States at the location they were counted during the 2010 Census. Each dot is color-coded by the individual's race and ethnicity. The map is presented in both black and white and full color versions. In the color version, each dot is color-coded by race.
All of the data displayed on the map are from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 Summary File 1 dataset made publicly available through the National Historical Geographic Information System. The data is based on the "census block," the smallest area of geography for which data is collected (roughly equivalent to a city block in an urban area).
The map was created by Dustin Cable, a former demographic researcher at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Brandon Martin-Anderson from the MIT Media Lab and Eric Fischer, creator of social media dot maps, deserve credit for the original inspiration for the project. This map builds on his work by adding the Census Bureau's racial data, and by correcting for mapping errors."
-from "what am I looking at?" link.
Housing Crisis Horizon. Where does our study fit in?
"...more and more American households, especially middle- and working-class people, are having a harder time affording housing. This is particularly the case in reviving urban centers, as more affluent, highly educated and creative-class workers snap up the best spaces, particularly those along convenient transit, pushing the service and working class further out."
This quote is from an excellent and insightful article by Richard Florida (famous for coining the "creative-class") called, The Next Housing Crisis May Be Sooner Than You Think.
The article acknowledges that policy and finance mechanisms contradict development from moving toward the formula for sustainable affordable housing.
"It's time to impose stricter underwriting standards and encourage the dense, mixed-use, more flexible housing options that the knowledge economy requires."
Is it possible, however, using the existing submarket development forces geared toward "affordable housing" to create the alternate version? This is where our project lies.
This quote is from an excellent and insightful article by Richard Florida (famous for coining the "creative-class") called, The Next Housing Crisis May Be Sooner Than You Think.
The article acknowledges that policy and finance mechanisms contradict development from moving toward the formula for sustainable affordable housing.
"It's time to impose stricter underwriting standards and encourage the dense, mixed-use, more flexible housing options that the knowledge economy requires."
Is it possible, however, using the existing submarket development forces geared toward "affordable housing" to create the alternate version? This is where our project lies.
zombie subdivisions
The Unfinished Suburbs of America
A proposal to eliminate barriers to innovative reuse of property that must be made. This is part of Project 3.
This is not a new phenomenon. My thesis was on Cape Coral, a development of 20 square miles in SW Florida which to this day remains incompletely built out. In 1995, when I did my thesis, it was roughly 30 percent built out.
My thesis presented a "proposal to curb atavistic development tendencies in pre-platted cities trapped by their own configuration."
A quote form the article,
Michael Mehaffy, an urban developer and consultant, said that recently, clients who bought distressed properties have started to contact him, hoping to start building on them again. But they want to build something different than was planned before.
“The market is shifting–people are recognizing that they don’t want to live in these monocultural places,” he said. “They want to be able to walk, enjoy amenities and a nice neighborhood with lots of services nearby.”
But there are zoning codes and headaches that make it difficult to build something different than was originally planned, Mehaffy said. Some of these developments don’t have any available public transit. Others may have residents who bought houses thinking they were moving into a suburb, and might oppose apartment buildings or retail. Some planned communities already have certain entitlements to water and other resources they don't want to give up if they build smaller projects than originally planned.
A quote form the article,
Michael Mehaffy, an urban developer and consultant, said that recently, clients who bought distressed properties have started to contact him, hoping to start building on them again. But they want to build something different than was planned before.
“The market is shifting–people are recognizing that they don’t want to live in these monocultural places,” he said. “They want to be able to walk, enjoy amenities and a nice neighborhood with lots of services nearby.”
But there are zoning codes and headaches that make it difficult to build something different than was originally planned, Mehaffy said. Some of these developments don’t have any available public transit. Others may have residents who bought houses thinking they were moving into a suburb, and might oppose apartment buildings or retail. Some planned communities already have certain entitlements to water and other resources they don't want to give up if they build smaller projects than originally planned.
A proposal to eliminate barriers to innovative reuse of property that must be made. This is part of Project 3.
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Soccer and urban development.
This is the inverse of Parramore, with housing taking the place of pitch.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/10/david-beckham-academy-ripped-pieces-football
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
DASH Students and Homeless
http://archrecord.construction.com/yb/ar/article.aspx?story_id=id:Yid5FmFGNEQgI8mhxJhhn7rokvHcp96V42D6BEZc3FD3qy4Diis8LzQV4aqf8flc
Monday, November 3, 2014
Population Density Mapping
The link below is an excellent example of mapping population densities on a macro scale. Check out the link for the how to and some further detailed information. Thanks to Brandon Martin-Anderson, a graduate student at MIT's Changing Places lab for developing this.
http://www.citylab.com/design/2012/12/mapping-census-dot-every-person/4273/
http://www.citylab.com/design/2012/12/mapping-census-dot-every-person/4273/
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