Presentation video available here
Join us! Thursday, May 2 at 7:30pm. Hosted by the Rockridge Community Planning Council Zoom Link
This spring, the Urban Planning Process Studio (CP 116) at UC Berkeley has been studying The Ridge site at Broadway and Pleasant Valley Ave. City Planning 116 is an intensive studio course that seeks to give students a real-world experience with city planning. By focusing on one physical area, the course helps students learn about the entire gamut of city planning issues: physical building and street design issues, social and economic issues, environmental impacts, analysis methods, legal framework, city government, politics, and community dynamics.
The final assignment is organized around thematic focus areas: Social and Racial Equity, Housing and Affordability, Economic Opportunity, Culture Keeping, and Public Realm. Over the last two months, students have been working to gather information via site observations, surveying Oakland Tech High School students, and reviewing city planning documents, and now based on their research have proposed solutions to the problems/trends, their early work identified.
As student work can help add fresh perspective to planning issues, we are hoping that the broader community is able to join these final presentations, to provide the students with feedback about their overall analysis and proposed solutions, in addition to helping inspire new conversations within the community. Also, this review has the unique opportunity for many students to be their last class/presentation of their undergraduate education and is a wonderful opportunity to encourage the creative problem solving of the next generation of planners.
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