CAPLA Students Develop Award-winning Complete Streets Framework

Oct. 27, 2017

This interdisciplinary design studio has won an Arizona APA Best Student Planning Project Award two years in a row.

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Interdisciplinary team of CAPLA students
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Arizona APA Best Student Planning Project Award
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An interdisciplinary CAPLA studio project has been honored with the Arizona Chapter of the American Planning Association's "Best Student Planning Project Award" for 2017. Assistant Professor Arlie Adkins, Senior Lecturer Eduardo Guerrero, and student Christopher Ortiz y Pino (MS Planning '17) attended the Awards luncheon in Ft McDowell, Arizona to receive the award on behalf of the student team.

For their project, “Livable Streets for Vibrant Communities,” a team of eight CAPLA students worked with Living Streets Alliance and the City of Tucson to provide a framework for development of a complete streets policy that will support safe, equitable, and healthy streets that encourage economic growth within districts throughout the city. The students explored best practices for complete streets policies and design strategies, which culminated in recommendations for the City of Tucson as it moves forward with the development of a complete streets policy in the coming year.

This is the second year in a row that this studio has been awarded the Best Student Planning Project from the Arizona Chapter of the American Planning Association. Last year’s winning project “La Doce: Supporting a Naturally Occurring Cultural and Business District on South 12th Avenue” is currently being used as a resource by City of Tucson officials continuing their planning work along that corridor.

Student team:

  • Connor Harmon, Master of Science in Planning
  • Brad Kindler, Master of Landscape Architecture
  • Amanda Maass, Master of Science in Planning
  • Chris Ortiz y Pino, Master of Science in Planning
  • Michele Scanze, Master of Science in Planning
  • Fei Yu, Master of Landscape Architecture
  • Yuheng Zhang, Master of Landscape Architecture

Studio Faculty:

Stone Ave re-imagines building orientations to create public pedestrian space and neighborhood connections from nearby schools. Colorful surfacing at crosswalks encourages pedestrian awareness and neighborhood identity.

  

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