With an overall goal of facilitating outreach in minority neighborhoods, this report describes the process behind a successful collaborative outreach project based on bottom-up outreach strategies. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustainable City Year Program Contact Info Megan Banks Sustainable City Year Program Manager mbanks@uoregon.edu (541) 346-6395 University Faculty […]
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With an overall goal of facilitating the revitalization of the Mohawk District, this concept plan provides goals and strategies for the redevelopment of the Mohawk District. By evaluating existing conditions within the Mohawk District, six student teams developed a neighborhood profile including demographic and economic conditions and trends, land-use and area infrastructure, and neighborhood amenities. […]
Why does one study another language and culture, particularly Spanish in Tennessee? Bearing in mind that many of our communities have a growing number of Spanish-speaking neighbors, it is our belief that learning Spanish and understanding more fully the cultures that Spanish expresses constitutes an essential component in strengthening our collective roles as socially responsible […]
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Main Street Monroe is a non-stock corporation whose mission is to improve the lives of residents in Monroe, Wisconsin through interactive activities, historic events, restaurants, shopping and most importantly, farmer’s markets. The Monroe Farmers’ Market has its own blog within the Main Street Monroe website, detailing its times, vendors, events, updates, and connected social media […]
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We offered to conduct a survey for the city to see if Seaside residents would want an urban harvest food share program. Our survey focused on the recommendations from residents about how they would like the program to be run and what trees are currently growing and producing fruit in the city. We focused on […]
We tested SnapPlus (Soil Nutrient Application Planner), a nutrient management planning software developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and several other State of Wisconsin entities. It was developed to help farmers stay in compliance with Wisconsin’s Nutrient Management Standard Code 590. From the SnapPlus website: “SnapPlus can calculate: ● Crop nutrient (N, P2O5, K2O) recommendations […]
We worked with the City of Seaside and Kurt Overmeyer, Seaside’s Economic Development Program Manager, to collect estimates of water usage based on the non-residential water release form for the business sector of Seaside. We did this by walking to each individual business to calculate the water usage based on their group use. Read the […]
We would like to improve access to City services. For example, many of the City’s services are accessible by calling 311, using the TacomaFIRST 311 mobile app, and City website. With more and more homes having virtual assistants, such as the Amazon Echo (commonly called Alexa) and Google Home devices, we see the opportunity for […]
While the discussions around the ofcial name contnue, the City of Pfugerville tasked students in two courses, Planning History and Visual Design, with researching the history of the Additon and designing a memorial park. Students deployed planning and preservaton techniques to provide optons for a more formal recogniton of the site’s history. They emphasized contributons […]
We would like to improve access to City services. For example, many of the City’s services are accessible by calling 311, using the TacomaFIRST 311 mobile app, and City website. With more and more homes having virtual assistants, such as the Amazon Echo (commonly called Alexa) and Google Home devices, we see the opportunity for […]