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The Boston Planning and Development Agency’s board has approved Boston University’s real estate plan for its Charles River campus through 2026. Key renovations will improve Warren Towers, the university's main dormitory, with upgrades to bathrooms, HVAC systems, and the building’s exterior. Additionally, the board greenlit a lab complex on Wentworth Institute of Technology property, two office-to-housing conversions, and a 236-unit apartment building in South Boston. This approval is part of BU’s institutional master plan, which typically spans ten years; however, the university opted for a shorter version to allow incoming President Mellisa Gilliam to shape her vision. The Planning Department, established by Mayor Wu in 2024, aims to prioritize development that addresses Boston’s needs for resilience, affordability, and equity while ensuring transparent community engagement and effective use of public real estate. Read more: https://ow.ly/2NNi50Ttaz7 #bostonuniversity #universitymasterplan #bostoncre #studenthousingdevelopment #offcampushousing #oncampushousing

SIGNAL: To do that, New York needs to build more housing, and it can. New York could add dwellings for well over a million people — homes most New Yorkers could afford — without substantially changing the look and feel of the city. My architecture firm, Practice for Architecture and Urbanism, previously worked with Times Opinion to imagine the future of the city’s rail infrastructure and streets. This time, we took a fresh look at housing. We found a way to add more than 500,000 homes — enough to house more than 1.3 million New Yorkers — without radically changing the character of the city’s neighborhoods or altering its historic districts. - - - Tags: economics,policy - - - What is this? Signals are part of Adventuring Ventures' research methodology for exploring possible futures. A signal is a small or local phenomenon and a potential sign of change that might grow in scale, where it shows up, or who it influences. The tags refer to 5 lenses through which we look for signals - society, technology, economics, ecology, and policy. - - -

Evolution of unplanned pathways: an example of how unplanned development and historical changes in key pathways and green spaces can become integral to a built environment layout over time. The Oval and Long Walk at Ohio State University were not included in the original campus design but developed organically over time. As new buildings were constructed, students began creating their own paths across the grass, which influenced the eventual layout of sidewalks, including the Long Walk. The campus was initially designed like an English manor, with pathways intersecting what is now the Oval. These features shape the mental map of the university, guiding movement and serving as key reference points. Their evolution reflects the changing needs and formalization of campus navigation. #wayfinding #navigation #mentalmap #UrbanPlanning #LandscapeArchitecture #SpatialDesign

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Join us next week at CNU 32 Cincinnati!   Speakers Brenda Diaz-Flores, CNU-A, Associate, Urban Designer, MKSK and Justin Wallace, AICP, CNU-A, Senior Associate in Planning & Urban Design, White & Smith will present on Saturday May 18th at 1:15 pm on  What's in a name? The Power of Street and Place Names.   Street names and addressing are wayfinding devices in our surroundings, often unnoticed, while casually contributing to ambience and the symbolic meaning of a place. The naming of streets seems mundane. However, assigning street nomenclature can be a defining part of a community’s identity, particularly regarding restorative urbanism. Street naming can reveal societal power structures and our core civic and democratic values. Such systems are critical for navigating and understanding a place, city, or region. And, in terms of information management, the topic is becoming more complex and sophisticated and will remain crucial for future planning. This session highlights the importance of street naming, its history and evolution in the U.S. during a critical moment in its city planning history, and how local governments can implement and change street names to restore communities. The session will highlight an example of Morgan Square in Spartanburg, South Carolina to demonstrate how community perceptions and values of streets and public spaces adapt to meet the needs of the community over time and how it will transform in the future. To learn more, visit: https://lnkd.in/g_8N5PKn White & Smith, LLC The Congress for the New Urbanism #MKSK #ShapePlace #PlacesforPeople #LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanDesign #Planning #Design #ASLA #APA #ULI #CNU32

See you at NACAS East in Virginia Beach? Warren Bulseco, AIA, NACAS, NIRSA, Senior Vice President and Principal will be presenting a Breakout Session with our client Alison Bonsell, Regional Director, Housing and Food Services Commonwealth Campuses, Penn State University. The session will take place Sunday, June 16 from 3:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and is titled “Revitalizing Traditional Dormitories through Bathroom Privatization.” Over the last 20 years, new Student Housing construction has kept pace with contemporary student expectations for bathroom features, accessibility, gender neutrality, and privacy. Outdated bathroom design prototypes, even if well maintained, now render older housing stock more obsolete than ever before. Where does this comparison position smaller colleges and satellite campuses, whose budgets cannot support new housing?  Join us to explore this question and more! https://lnkd.in/evubMtag #conference #NACAS #architecture #studentspaces #highereducation #NACASEAST #dormitories #studenthousing

If you are heading to CNU 32 in Cincinnati, then drop by our session "What's in a name? The Power of Street and Place Names." I'll be sharing my research and taking a fascinating and nerdy dive into the history and current advantages of Street (RE)-Naming for local governments with Brenda Diaz-Flores, CNU-A. I think you'll find this fun and wonky topic just as fascinating as I have!

🏗️ Are you wondering what is being built next to CSUSM in City of San Marcos, CA 🏗️ North City San Diego is building 222 North City, a 12-story mixed use project. North City (originally approved in 2009) is evolving in reaching its potential by creating our first true downtown. This market rate housing will bring much needed housing to the market . It’s predicted to provide housing for many faculty members for California State University San Marcos (currently our largest employer in our city), building housing adjacent to jobs, creating a synergistic atmosphere. It will also provide a much needed clientele base for the current restaurants in North City. It’s exciting to watch this project being built after the slowdown due to the “Great Recession” and the “Global Pandemic”, breathing life into our first true downtown that brings together businesses, housing, and a park together in a walkable community that is close to jobs and transit options. Stay tuned, it is predicted for occupancy by late 2025. #HousingDiversity #NorthCity #DowntownLiving #SanMarcosCity #DiscoverLifesPossibilities

For this year’s final #BlackHistoryMonth community spotlight, KAI looks to the Arlington Grove Apartments project. Located in the City of St. Louis, this special project included the redevelopment of the William B. Ittner designed Arlington School, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Established under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Register of Historic Places, managed by the National Park Service, aims to facilitate public and private initiatives in identifying, assessing, and safeguarding America's historical and archaeological assets. KAI was chosen by the St. Louis Housing Authority to perform Design-Build services and transform the block into a $34 million, 162,000 square foot mixed-income and mixed-finance residential development that includes 112 units of apartments, townhouses, and semi-detached housing as well as a mixed-use building and renovated school. The 91 construction housing units included a heavy emphasis on sustainability that positively impacts both the residents and the community for years to come. The opportunity to help provide people in underserved areas with a meaningful place to live and a starting point for a better future is something on which we’ve built our legacy. Our mission of transforming communities is part of every project we take part in and is a mission we strive for with each step we take into the future. Read more about this historic and meaningful project in the link below. https://lnkd.in/g-m-VSSp #TransformingCommunities #CommunityImpact #AEC #Design #Engineering #CommunityInvestment #Construction #CommunityDesign #ResidentialDesign #EducationDesign

Big News! 🎉⁠ ⁠ We’ve won Capital & Centric’s competition for St Georges Wolverhampton!⁠ ⁠ Working with our friends Mikhail Riches we’re excited to be co-masterplanning the repair of this historic city district. We’ll also be looking after the design of a glorious new city park, a network of new public spaces and the remaking of several historic streets. While we’re doing that Mikhail Riches will be busy adapting the former Sainsburys building into high performance new homes while other parts of the site will host family housing at a variety of scales. The eponymous church will be re-proposed into community and work spaces surrounded by independent businesses at the heart of the scheme. ⁠ ⁠ Active travel focussed, super green (and blue) infrastructure, extremely high performance, low embodied energy buildings, places to work and play…..you want to see regenerative urban planning at a scale up from our work on The Phoenix, this is it. Watch this space (and our channels)! Roll on pre-app!⁠ ⁠ Capital & Centric (C&C) are a Social Impact developer who retain and operate their sites for the long term. In 2017 C&C co-founded the @regenbrainery, a mentoring programme designed to inspire young people from disadvantaged and diverse backgrounds, so the places we create are better, richer and more reflective of the society we live in. ⁠ ⁠ Find out more, link in bio.⁠ ⁠ Capital&Centric RIBA Architects’ Journal ⁠ #periscope_uk⁠ #urbandesign #urbanenvironment #builtenvironment #urbanplanning #placemaking #urbanism #housing #architecture #density #scale #landscapearchitecture #citiesforpeople⁠ #urbanspaces #greenspaces #greeninfrastructure #blueinfrastructure #ecology #biodiversity #water #flood #suds #infrastructure #culturallandscape #citynature #natureinthecity #landscape ⁠#wolverhampton⁠