This report details the results of student work in collaboration with the Tijuana Environmental Protection Office and the Sage Project at San Diego State University (SDSU) to improve the conditions of two existing city parks in Tijuana, Mexico. The main improvement goals were related to sustainability, community empowerment, safety, and erosion control. Through Sage Project […]
University: San Diego State University
Lemon Grove Downtown Village
The land use plans outlined in this document were produced through the partnership between the City of Lemon Grove and the Sage Project at San Diego State University during the fall semester of 2016. In Diana Richardson’s Geography 572 course, titled “Land Use Analysis,” upper-division undergraduate and graduate students were pre-sented with the opportunity to […]
An Assessment of Homeless Individuals’ Perceptions of Service Accessibility in Downtown San Diego
This report details the findings of research commissioned by the City of San Diego and carried out by student-researchers at San Diego State University on the issue of homelessness in downtown San Diego. We provide a snapshot of the perceptions of the homeless residents of the East Village neighborhood of downtown San Diego in Spring […]
Property Management Plan
The market analyses, property valuations, and property profiles contained in this report were created through the partnership between National City and the SDSU Sage Project during the spring of 2014. Ten undergraduate students from various academic disciplines participated in a special study course, led by professors Dana Kuhn and Seth Kaplowitz, designed to provide students […]
National City Police Culture
This paper details the results of a partnership between Criminal Justice 497 at San Diego State University (SDSU) and the National City Police Department examining questions related to police leadership, culture, transparency, and oversight. Nationwide, police oversight and transparency have been recently called into question after several highly publicized incidents of alleged police misconduct. This […]
Lemon Grove Redevelopment
The redevelopment ideas summarized in this report were produced by students at San Diego State University in collaboration with the City of Lemon Grove. Students enrolled in the Finance 437, taught by Professor Dana Kuhn, created development plans for both industrial and mixed-use parcels of land in Lemon Grove. The industrial parcel is located near […]
Improving Street Sign and Stop Sign Data in Lemon Grove
The Geography Department at San Diego State University, in collaboration with the Sage Project and the City of Lemon Grove, produced an inventory of stop sign and street identification sign locations within the city limits of Lemon Grove. Two teams collected stop sign coordinates with ESRI’s Collector for ArcMap and street sign coordinates with Google’s […]
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Marina Tidelands: Modernization & Re-innovation
This report represents a semester of work by nine students of San Diego State University. Objectives included: 1. Determining the potential for non-industrial uses for portions of National City’s Marina District. 2. Identifying the most likely areas for conversion from industrial use. 3. Projecting those parcels’ best use. 4. Creating a written report and making […]
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Placemaking and Homelessness in the City of Lemon Grove
In collaboration with the Sage Project at San Diego State University and the City of Lemon Grove, this report details the methods and findings of the Spring 2017 course, Communication 462. Qualitative data were collected using ethnographic techniques, including in-person interviews with Lemon Grove residents, to examine placemaking and homelessness in Lemon Grove. An ethnographic […]
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Santee Water Quality Project (1/2)
The results presented in this report were created in partnership with City of Santee and the Sage Project during the spring of 2016. Students in Environmental Engineering 363 collected and analyzed water samples from areas of interest within the City of Santee. To address the City of Santee’s plan to offset the pollution load to […]