cleveland urban design collaborative - academic programs - student work - 2011 - syllabus

8/7/2019 Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative - Academic Programs - Student Work - 2011 - Syllabus

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ARCH UD-60703spring 2011

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO ///

HEALTHY IMMIGRANT communitiesDESIGN for


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METHOD

TargetCommunities

mpli cations forURBAN DESIGN

The studio will engage in 4 primary activities:

The rst activity is conducting a literature review of relevant research1. on the topics

of environmental determinants of health, immigrant communities and research

methodology related to the design process. Some preliminary reference material has

been collected, but annotated bibliographies of the documents must be written

The second activity is a baseline environmental assessment of the target2. geographicareas using a data collection tool for environment features linked to physical activity.

The Irvine-Minnesota Inventory to Measure Built Environments will be used block by

block to measure the physical environments capacity for active living. Assemblage of

base maps and GIS data will also occur simultaneously. (Will be conducted in groups)

The third is a series of surveys and focus groups with key constituents3. of the Chinese

and Bhutanese-Nepali immigrant and refugee populations living in the two target

neighborhoods. The focus groups will discuss the physical character of immigrants

native communities, the types of physical activities they engaged in prior to migration,

what they engage in now, and how the physical environment of their current

neighborhoods could be adapted to encourage active living. (Will be conducted in

groups)The fourth is development of design proposals for the two different geographic4. areas

based on analysis of the environmental assessment and feedback from the focus

groups. (Will be conducted individually)

Based on extensive conversations with organizations serving ethnic communities in

Cleveland including The Refugee Response, Hindu YUVA and Asian Services in Action, two

geographic target areas were selected for this study. The rst is Asia Town: a 40 block

area between E. 30th and E. 50th Streets along Superior Avenue. Among the foreign-born

Asians in this area, 80 percent are Chinese and the others are a mix, primarily, of Filipino,

Korean and Vietnamese. The second geographic area is a site of new Asian immigrant

settlement between W. 140th and W. 150th Streets along Lorain Avenue in the West Park

neighborhood. This is an area where Bhutanese-Nepali refugees are concentrated.

Immigration is a key issue in older industrial cities like Cleveland, which have experienced

signicant population decline over the last 50 years. Improving health outcomes for

immigrants will ideally lead to increased immigrant populations and the revitalizationof city neighborhoods. An abundance of vacant land is the most visible by-product of

Clevelands population loss. Findings from this research will lead to more culturally

resonant strategies for putting vacant land to productive purposes such as active

recreation spaces, urban agriculture and neighborhood greening. Issues surrounding the

built form of the neighborhoods will also be addressed such as, appropriate residential

housing typologies, mitigation of the harsh Cleveland weather and new approaches to

expressing cultural identity through built form. The contrasting urban conditions of the

two sites provide useful contexts for developing varied health-related design strategies

benetting immigrant ethnic groups and the surrounding communities.


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OBJECTIVES

Develop a rich understanding of the relationship between the built environment & health

Strengthen a grounding in core urban design principals: human scale design, multi-modal

accomodation, sensitivity to neighborhood context, analytical approach to multivalent urban

systems, and recognition of the social impact of design decisions

Cultivate creative responses to issues affecting depopulating cities, such as vacant properties,

underutilized infrastructure and social fragmentation

Expand understanding of research methodology, particularly within interdisciplinary context

FORMAT

The Studio will meet on Mondays and Fridays from 1:10 - 5:15pm and on Wednesdays from 3:00

- 6:00pm. Attendance is required during entire designated studio hours. The drawing course,

taught by Gauri Torgalkar, will be regularly scheduled for the rst hour of class on Mondays,unless noted otherwise.

instructors

The lead instructor for this studio will be David Jurca, but the entire CUDC core staff will beinvolved in teaching throughout the semester. Our ofces and your studios are only a few steps

apart, so please feel welcome to see any staff member for questions, concerns or to borrow a

useful book.

David Jurca : [email protected]

Terry Schwarz : [email protected]

Gauri Torgalkar : [email protected]

grading +Expectations

Attendance. (Only one unexcused absence will be permitted. Subsequent unexcused

absences will affect nal grade.)

Continuous progress throughout the duration of the Studio project. Design is an iterativeprocess: initial design, critique, note problems, rene design, and repeat. Students are

expected to anticipate failed designs and work hard to create new solutions. Fail early and fail

often to succeed sooner.

Presentation quality. During interim reviews and nal reviews, students are expected to

communicate their projects effectively through appropriate media and engage in thoughtful

dialogue with jurors.

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Grades will be based on the following criteria:


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Studio introduction + assign readings

Site visits

Reseach and A.S.i.A. presentations [drawing class]

MLK : No Class

Reading assignments due / Hindu YUVA presentation

Begin site assessment + mapping [drawing class]

[drawing class] Desk crits (Begin interviews?)

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Pin-up neighborhood mapping assignment

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photo credit: refugeeresponse.org/

photo credit: Hester St. CollaborativeTai Chi in NYCcommunity garden


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Several readings and resources will be posted on the Blackboard Vista site for this studio course. The

recommended reading list includes:

Chen, Caroline. Dancing in the Streets of Beijing. Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism andthe Remaking of Contemporary Cities. Ed. Jeffery Hou. New York, NY: Routledge Press, 2010. p 21-35

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Designing for Active Living Among Children

http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=23455

McCann BA, Ewing R. Measuring the Health Effects of Sprawl: A National Analysis of Physical

Activity, Obesity, and Chronic Disease. Smart Growth America, Surface Transportation Policy Project,

September 2003. http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/report/HealthSprawl8.03.pdf

Gushulak, B. Healthier On Arrival? Further Insight Into The Healthy Immigrant Effect. CMAJ

2007;176(10)1439-1440. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/176/10/1439

Oxman-Martinez J, et al. Immigration, Women and Health in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public

Health. Sep/Oct 2000; 91, 5. http://journal.cpha.ca

Wolf, Kathleen L., Metro Nature: Its Functions, Benets, and Values in Growing Greener Cities: Urba

Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century. Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, eds. Philadelphia:

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. pp. 294-315.

www.TheFunTheory.com

READINGS +Resources

This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way

to change peoples behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for

something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that its change for the better.

photo credit: Asian Services in ActionDiabetes prevention classfocusing on group excercise

Bio information board at The Ohio City Farm

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