Transforming the Urban Fabric

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In partnership with GOOD Magazine, the Academy of Art University’s School of Graphic Design mobilized its students to deploy design to address real problems within the city of San Francisco. GOOD Magazine challenged students to address intractable social and sustainable problems that confront the city. Undergraduate and graduate students identified, researched, and tackled these challenges with unique, sustainable solutions. Student teams were asked to consider involving the communities in devising the solution to the problem at hand. Team Spot: Perin Rambhia, Yen Yeh and Zainab Rupawalla Instructor: Phil Hamlett
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Phil Hamlett, Instructor
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September 30, 2011
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Team Spot examined the issue of abandoned urban spaces and the adverse affects they have on the communities in which they’re located. In a city with property values as high as San Francisco, it’s shocking how much wasted space can be found. What to do with it all? Who better to ask than those who live there?

 
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The Green Spot initiative endeavors to reclaim these abandoned spaces by first engaging residents in the urban planning process, then facilitating the means by which their aspirations — parks, gardens, dog runs, businesses — can be implemented through an ongoing process of community engagement, development and sponsorship.