The Foundations of New York: Closing the Soil Loop from One Borough to Another

A City agency practitioner working on a large New York City infrastructure project requiring the importation of significant amounts of soil approached Town+Gown:NYC with a project idea about how to communicate, to the public, that re-use of soil excavated from other City projects would not only be environmentally good, but also safe. Around that time, […]

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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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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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Communication Campaigns for the Monroe Farmers Market

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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Positively Apache Junction (2/4)

Apache Junction is located at the scenic foothills of the Superstition Mountains. It has a rich cinematic history, a Western draw, and a banquet of outdoor attractions. Already, the city’s official population of roughly 39,000 residents doubles to nearly 80,000 each winter due to the seasonal migration of visitors from colder climates who primarily stay […]

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Positively Apache Junction (1/4)

Apache Junction is located at the scenic foothills of the Superstition Mountains. It has a rich cinematic history, a Western draw, and a banquet of outdoor attractions. Already, the city’s official population of roughly 39,000 residents doubles to nearly 80,000 each winter due to the seasonal migration of visitors from colder climates who primarily stay […]

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2018 Beaufort County Transportation Needs Assessment

This project was part of the USCB’s Students Connected. USCB communication studies students were given the opportunity to explore and apply communica- tion research methods to a transportation project sponsored by the community partner, Together for Beaufort County. This project included an extensive four- pronged data collection with four groups of students collecting and analyzing […]

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The Big Ear Project

This project is an experiment in deep listening. A group of California State University Monterey Bay students enrolled in the Media for Social Change class have engaged in one-to-one conversations with diverse Salinas residents exploring their experience of living and working in the city. Students used questions as civic tools to generate curiosity and conversations […]

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Promoting new Seaside business applications for startup funding

This project involved promotion of the opportunity to apply to the City for the startup monies. The information on the opportunity was spread by this class via fliers and word of mouth at various events prior to the deadline. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustainable City Years Program Contact […]

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