Conduct a travel shed analysis of where Rosemount residents and employees work and live that can inform future transit and transportation planning, and provide recommendations for increasing transit use. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Resilient Communities Project Contact Info University Faculty Contact Yingling Fan Public Affairs Local Government / […]
University Department: Geography
Floodplain Assessment
Applied GIS (GEOG 421), David Kelley Spring 2017 The City of Elk River is home to a number of water bodies including streams, rivers, and lakes. These water bodies have been mapped by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for flooding concerns. These maps outline Floodplains (Floodways and Floodfringe) within city limits. Building in Floodplains […]
Floodplain Assessment
Applied GIS (GEOG 421), David Kelley Spring 2017 The City of Elk River is home to a number of water bodies including streams, rivers, and lakes. These water bodies have been mapped by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for flooding concerns. These maps outline Floodplains (Floodways and Floodfringe) within city limits. Building in Floodplains […]
Benefits of City Living: Connecting Energy, Enviornment, Mobility, and Communication Urban Area Improvements
Students will provide a written report detailing measured impacts of Cleveland’s current and potential future plans that also details best practices for Cleveland to improve energy, environment, mobility, and communication within the city. This will include identification of strengths and weaknesses in relation to energy, environment, mobility, and communication development, as well as potential paths […]
Foreclosure Recovery Impact in Brooklyn Park Neighborhoods
Assess the impacts of Brooklyn Park’s Foreclosure Recovery Program. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Resilient Communities Project Contact Info University Faculty Contact Ed Goetz Public Affairs Professor egoetz@umn.edu 612-624-8737 Local Government / Community Contact Erika Byrd Economic Development Specialist, City of Brooklyn Park […]
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Foreclosure Recovery Impact in Brooklyn Park Neighborhoods
Assess the impacts of Brooklyn Park’s Foreclosure Recovery Program. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Resilient Communities Project Contact Info University Faculty Contact Ying Song Geography yingsong@umn.edu 612 625 2056 Local Government / Community Contact Erika Byrd Economic Development Specialist, City of Brooklyn Park […]
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Santee Water Qulity Project (2/2)
The principal objective of the Santee Water Quality Project is to identify hotspots of water contamination in Santee and determine if these hotspots change over time. To this aim, researchers in the Environmental Hydrology class at San Diego State University pursued existing water quality data and accessed digital elevation models and land use shapefiles to […]
Alternate Modes of Transportation in the City of Lemon Grove
The bike lane network plans outlined in this report were created through the partnership between Lemon Grove and the Sage Project at San Diego State University during the fall of 2016. Upper-division undergraduate and graduate students in Geography 484, under the guidance of Dr. Atsushi Nara, used Graphic Information Systems (GIS) infrastructure to formulate a […]
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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 […]
National City Marina District (1/3)
The necessary knowledge and resources for the following land use analysis reports were acquired through an upper division Geography 572 course titled “Land Use Analysis” taught by Professor Diana Richardson. The groups created development proposals within the given project site in the National City Marina District that considered existing and potential land use opportunities. The […]