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Browsing by Author "Carrera, Lindsay"

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    Community Outreach and Assessment of Interest in North Hennepin Community College Fine Arts Building Project
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2017) Buell, Sharee; Carrera, Lindsay; Daramola, Joshua; Doyle, Kate; Kuhfuss, Jeni
    This project was completed as part of the 2016-2017 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Brooklyn Park. Student services and facilities have been shown to increase the overall student experience and student retention. To that end, North Hennepin Community College is interested in constructing a new fine arts center. Students in Jennifer Blevins’ Advanced Community Practice: Assessment, Organizing, and Advocacy class conducted surveys to better understand what fine arts needs the general public desires most. Based on their findings, the students ultimately recommended the college work to better foster relationships with local community groups, develop children’s fine arts programming, and produce programming that is relevant to the residents of Brooklyn Park. The students’ final report and presentation are available.
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    McHarg and the Metropolitan Council An (Un)likely Romance
    (2018-12) Adkins, Athena; Barton, Julie; Carrera, Lindsay; Mohamed, Kowsar; Williams, James
    Urban planning concerns itself with the organization of grids, systems, flow; of where people are, where people should be, and what they should do there. Ecologists study relationships between living things and the environment. Fifty years ago, Scottish landscape architect, author, and TV personality Ian McHarg wrote his seminal book, Design with Nature. That same year, he also delivered a report to the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities, An Ecological Study of the Twin Cities (Wallace et al, 1969). The Metropolitan Council had taken a bold step in thinking about their work differently--from an “ecology-first” perspective rather than an “economic-growth first” perspective. McHarg considered the grids, system, flow, and most importantly, where people were and where they should be, primarily through the lens of the relationships between all of the living things in the region and the land. The overall purpose of this report is to determine what impact, if any, McHarg’s report--and his ecology-first perspective--had on Metropolitan Council policymaking. McHarg spoke and wrote powerfully to what many considered the foremost planning challenge of the era, that of inadequate management of burgeoning economic growth. He also gave special attention to one of the most visible costs of poorly managed growth -- unconsidered destruction of sensitive open space and attendant harm to natural systems. In essence, McHarg believed that if planners took an “ecology-first” approach, the other goals of economic growth, housing, and transportation could all be realized, resulting in healthier and safer communities. The Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities was a first-of-its-kind regional governing body for the seven-county area. Within two years of its inception, the Council chose to commission McHarg to write a report assessing the area. Like McHarg, Twin Cities leaders were deeply concerned about the harmful effects of poorly managed growth, particularly the destruction of open space. In a 1967 report calling for the creation of the Metropolitan Council, the Citizens League identified open space protection among the most important functions of the envisioned body and warned, “Unless large tracts of parks and open space are acquired promptly, the land will be taken over by developers and lost for public purposes forever” (Citizens League, 1967).