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HANNAH URBANSKI PLANNING PORTFOLIO
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CONTENTS
Resume | About Me 4
Clifton Gaslight District 6
V-Ray 8
Hand Drawings 10 Mt. LookoutNeighborhood Analysis 12
Understanding Contours 16
Site Inventory Camp Washington 18
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HANNAH URBANSKIPhone: (513) [email protected]
ABOUT MEFrom a young age, I have always loved helping people. My first experience with community engagement was volunteering with my mothers company for neighborhood outreach. We would help elderly and disabled residents by cleaning up their yards, clearing gutters and fixing fences. It was so rewarding to see how happy it made them. I wanted to be able to apply this love of helping others to my future career, but I wasnt exactly sure how. I came across a book called Cincinnati, A Pictorial History, and seeing how and why my city grew over the centuries was fascinating, and thats what prompted me to discover urban planning.
I never realized how much actually goes into making a city function from day to day, there are so many intertwined networks and communications we dont even think about that move our cities in a dynamic direction. I am passionate about finding ways design can make cities more livable by incorporating green technology and new economic development all while preserving neighborhood identity. I have seen how the power these relationships have brought communities together for a more sustainable future, and I want to impact this movement.
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EDUCATION
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH
Bachelors of Urban Planning, August 2015-present, expected graduation May 2020
Miami University, Hamilton OH
August 2010- May 2011
Classes in 3-D arts
General Education courses
Fairfield Senior High School, Fairfield OH
Graduated with diploma, 2009
3.7 GPA
Graduated with honors
Member of the Art Club
Teacher Assistant
WORK EXPERIENCE
Petsmart, Springdale OH
Certified Groomer, October 2012- present
Educate customers on proper grooming and overall care for their pets
Schedule appointments
YMCA Camp Kern, Oregonia OH
Camp Counselor, stable hand, volunteer, June 2011-August 2013
Organized activities for campers
Ensured camper safety
Educated students about basic animal care and riding skills
CPR/AED certified
Complete Petmart, Fairfield OH
Shift Supervisor, May 2007-May 2010
Counted tills
Ran ordering and inventory reports
Made special orders for customers
Managed a 2-4 person team
SKILLS
Work well with a team and has clear communication abilities with attention to detail
Passion for learning and taking on new projects
Computer Skills: Advanced: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Microsoft Office
Intermediate: Sketch up Basic: ArcGIS, AutoCAD5
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CLIFTON GASLIGHT DISTRICT This project was to introduce us to the computer programs we would beutilizing as planners. Our focus area was the gaslight district located around Ludlow Street in Clifton, Cincinnati. These are a few of the maps showing the street names, land use, street categorization, and green spaces. Using various programs, I became familiar with AutoCAD, SketchUp, Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
BUILDING FOOTPRINTS
STREET NAMES
Clifton Gaslight -Buliding Footprints-Team 7 500 1500 ft1000
COMPUTER GRAPHICS INPLANNING | FALL 2015
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Clifton Gaslight-Trac System-Team 7
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residential side streets
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residential access streets
main arterials
Clifton Gaslight District: Parks and Gardens/Team 7
Park/Green Space
Private Gardens
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Clifton Gaslight-Land Use-Team 7 N 500 1000 1500 ft
parks
residential
community centers & schools
churches
shopping & business
leisure activities
STREET CATEGORIZATION
LAND USE
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CLIFTON GASLIGHTDISTRICT | V-RAY RENDERINGSThis was another project in the computer graphics course using Sketchup and Photo-shop. Beginning with raising the buildings in SketchUp to the accurate stories, I then focused on creating accurate facades of the buildings along Ludlow Street. The next step of the project was to render these SketchUp models into V-Ray and get a birds eye view as well as a street level perspective. The last step was to create a personalized facade at the street level. This really allowed me to explore my creativity in Photoshop. I made the town into my ideal main street, with lots of greenery, people walking dogs and riding bikes, and an eco-friendly electric Tesla car.
COMPUTER GRAPHICS INPLANNING | FALL 2015
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Clifton Gaslight District | Birds Eye View | Hannah Urbanski
Clifton Gaslight District | Street View | Hannah Urbanski
BIRDS EYE VIEW V-RAY
STREET LEVEL V-RAY
MAIN STREET
COMPUTER GRAPHICS INPLANNING | FALL 2015
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HAND DRAWINGS PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING DESIGN GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS | FALL 2015
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MT. LOOKOUT NEIGHBORHOOD ANALYSIS
PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING DESIGN GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS II | SPRING 2016
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This studio focused mainly on teaching the importance of a full spectrum analysis of a neighborhood. Students formed into groups and picked one of Cincinnatis 52 neighborhoods, of which our group decided onMt. Lookout. We used tools such as ArcGIS, Sketchup and Illustrator to display our findings, most of which focused on the main business square. We came to find a variety of historical information, as well as future plans fordevelopment.
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These are a few Sketchup models of Mt. Lookout. The orange represents independent stores, teal is local, and purple is a national chain. This plaza is mainly privately owned businesses, with one local business to the Hamilton and Butler County areas, being The Animal Hospital, which has multiple locations in the region. The pedestrian shed map above shows the walk-ability of the square to a 1200 foot radius. We can see that the square has a bit of this access, but overall, Mt. Lookout was built around using a personal car. There isnt enough areas of mixed used with residential areas for it to be considered a very pedestrian friendly neighborhood.
PEDESTRIAN SHED
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NEIGHBORHOOD MAPS
ZONING
WALKING ACCESS
LAND USE
This is a land use and zoning map for the neighborhood. As shown, it is largely occupied by yellow, which is single family, two familyand multi-family housing,with mostly single family. The green in the top right corner is Ault Park, the bottom right is Alms Park, which technically belongs to Columbia Tusculum. The third largest land use is in blue, which is educational and institutional buildings. The ones shown are the St. Ursula Villa School, KilgourElementary and the school attached to the Cardinal Pacelli Catholic Church. The walk-ability map has both a 1,200 and 1,500 foot radius and shows both the main square and both entrances to the park, for assessing the accessibility of the park to surrounding residents. This again shows the lack of mixed use in the area, therefore limiting access to either those that live very close by or have a car.
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Mt. Lookout-Typology-Architecture StylesHannah Urbanski | Alec Ochs| Nick ObednikovskiPlan 1012 | 3-31-2016 | N
Prairie
Tudor
Art Deco
Federal
Bungalow
Colonial Revival
Swiss Chalet
ARCHITECTURE STUDY
Mt. Lookout has a variety of housing stock. This gives the neighborhood a unique yet historical feel. In the map above, we surveyed via Google street view, a section of Mt. Lookout to identify certain architectural types. We found in this sample area Prarie, Swiss Chalet, Colonial Revival, Bungalow, Federal, Art Deco and Tudor housing. The most common was the Bungalow and Tudor style.
Mt. Lookout-Typology-Architecture StylesHannah Urbanski | Alec Ochs| Nick ObednikovskiPlan 1012 | 3-31-2016 | N
Prairie
Tudor
Art Deco
Federal
Bungalow
Colonial Revival
Swiss Chalet
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UNDERSTANDINGCONTOURS
SITE PLANNING AND DESIGN | FALL 2016
This project was assigned to further our understanding on how to communicate design ideas through different forms of representation. We selected an abstract painting and then translated it into a contour grading plan and a 3-D foam model. I chose Geometric Patterns by Morton Livingston Schamberg. I selected this painting because there was such a great variety in the size, shape and color of the patterns.
Starting with the entire painting, I traced every line to begin with, then broke it up into four equal sections. The most dynamic areas to me were the top and bottom left hand squares.
Next, I took a closer look at all of the lines in this section with greater detail and traced these shapes. The shapes with steady big curves were what caught my eye the most.
I shaded in the most dynamic shapes from this section, which to me were the ones with the most unique form. This crop of the original seemed to have a lot more going on than the other part of the painting.
Assigning slopes to areas that stood out. These slopes were assigned at random, with no real sense of how they could be used to represent the painting.
I then had my eureka moment, when I realized that these shapes looked like Pangea breaking into the continents. The faint P was drawn on to identify the pieces as Pangea.
Lastly, I assigned the slopes figuring in that as the continents separate from Pangea, they become flatter, so the high slopes are near the cluster in the bottom left and dissipate up to the top right. This helps to lead your eye from bottom to top.
Original Selection
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This is the final contour grading plan as well as a few different angles of the 3-D model made of foam core. The foam model really helps you to visualize a large land mass breaking into may pieces and floating across the ocean.
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SITE INVENTORY CAMP WASHINGTON SITE PLANNING AND DESIGN | FALL 2016
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This site inventory is designed to help us familiarize ourselves with Camp Washington and its related context. Breaking into groups, we each had tasks to research in depth, a variety of aspects of the neighborhood, to eventually as a class put a booklet together of all of our findings. Some of these were circulation patterns, site plans and detailed sections, transit mapping and environmental conditions. Once the inventory is complete, we will move on to develop a 15 to 20 acre site.
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Public and Civic Institutions
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Legend
Streets
Talbert House
Wave Pool
CDC Association
Talbert House
Church of God Central Parkway
Sacred Heart Church
Sober Living Ohio
Temporary Youth Police Academy
Part of my documentation was public and civil institutions. This included community centers, churches, and government run programs, such as theSober Living and Talbert House. There is also a small branch of the Community DevelopmentCorporations of Cincinnatilocated on the west side of the community.
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Legend
Camp Washington
Impervious
Pervious
Legend
Wetlands
Camp Washington
Tree Cover 1 Miles
These are also some relevant maps that show the watershed and tree cover, as well as pervious and impervious spaces. The watershed plays a role in this community as it borders the Mill Creek Watershed on the west side of town. This makes it an area that runs the possibility of floods, and this can effect the way things are planned. It is also very impervious, and there are only two actual parks in the area. The final page shows the poster I made showing the park systems and open space in the whole of Cincinnati in comparison to Camp Washington.
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Camp Washington, Cincinnati
Hannah Urbanski
Parks and Open Space
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Legend
Camp Washington
Parks
Valley Park
Taft Field
Mill Creek Watershed Area
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Legend
Cincinnati Neighborhoods
Camp Washington
This is a zoom in from the 52 Cincinnati neighborhoods in figure one. It shows in greater detail the surrounding neighborhoods of Northside, Clifton, CUF, West End, Queensgate, South Fairmont, North Fairmont, English Woods, Millvale, South Cumminsville. The map clearly shows there is still a lack of available green space to Camp Washington.
This is a final figure of Camp Washingtons parks. There are three ar-eas that can be defined as parks, Mill Creek Watershed area, Taft Field and Valley Park. Taft Field was used by the Community Center that sits on the same property, as well as the neighborhood pool, both of which are no longer operational. The Valley Park area is located behind the correctional center. It has a nice World War One monument at the en-trance of the park. It is also very popular with the residents because of the urban garden that is located there as well. Due to Camp Washing-ton being a food desert, the Community Council decided to allow part of the park to be used for cultivating fresh fruits and vegetables. Resi-dents have also taken some crops to Findlay Market to sell and have a mobile fresh food cart that drives around town, and offers various fun projects and volunteer opportunities for local families.
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Cemetary
Church
Ball Field
City/Neighborhood
Members Only Clubs
Conservancy Areas
Non-Profit
Private Schools
Public Schools
Federal
State Owned
Park Type
A park is defined as an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoy-ment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation. (dictionary.com)( https://www.tpl.org/sites/default/files/files_upload/2015-City-Park-Facts-Report.pdf)A total of 49,883 acres makes up all of Cincinnatis 52 neighborhoods. Of that, 7,508 acres is used for public parks. This is a range of neighborhood, city, village and pocket parks. There are also a large number of private and other types of open spaces that are still considered green/open space, but not a park. Of these, the Cincinnati Park Board manages 5 regional, 70 neighborhood parks, 34 natural areas and 5 neighborhood nature centers. There are also 30 sites managed by the Cincin-nati Recreation Commission.(http://www.cincinnatiparks.com/about-us/history/)The chart above shows some of the other major cities in Ohio to compare the total used acres for parks with relation to population and land acres.
Total- 640 park areasCity Land Acres Population Total Park AcresCincinnati 49,883 297,517 7,508Cleveland 49,726 390,113 2,994Columbus 138,988 822,553 11,916
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Camp Washington
Parks
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Parks
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THANK YOU Phone: (513) [email protected]