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This is a market place in my hometown, India, an ever changing and dynamic country. The market places in India are undergoing through rapid transformation . One has to use this incredible opportunity to think about potential ways to dealing with such large public spaces with both large and small scale intervention 2013. 01
CONTENTS Neighborhood Development
3
Historic Rail park
5
Quality of Life
7
Home Sale Price
9
SPRING GARDENT NEIGHBORHOOD
MUSEUM OF ART
SPRING GARDEN STREET
EAKIN OVAL
BE
NJ
IN
FR
AN
KL
IN
PA
RK
WA
BARNES MUSEUM
COMM COLLEGE
CALLOWHILL NEIGHBORHOOD CALLOWHILL STREET
FREE LIBRARY
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LOGAN VINE STREET EXPRESSWAY SQUARE LOGAN SQ
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FRANKLIN INSTI
U YL
IV E R KI LL R
FAMILY RACE STREET COURT ACA. OF NATURAL. SC
CHERRY STREET
FAMILY COURT
NORTH 18TH
NORTH 20TH
NORTH 22ND
ARCH. STREET
FROM THE MUSEUM OF ART
NORTH BROAD STREET
PAINE’s PARK
AM
HAMILTON STREET
RODIN MUSEUM
SUBURBAN
SUBURBAN STATION
CONVENTION CENTER
LOVE PARK
J.F.F BOULEVARD
CITY HALL
MARKET STREET
TO CITY HALL BELLA
RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
100
500
SPRING GARDEN STREET
HAMILTON STREET
BE
NJ
AM
IN
FR
AN
CALLOWHILL STREET
IN
PA
RK
W
AY
VINE STREET EXPRESSWAY
SC H U YL
RACE STREET
NORTH BROAD STREET
KL
Riverfront development No Development trend
IV E R KI LL R
Commercial development trend
CHERRY STREET
Residential development trend Activity/ Movement Complex Junction Movement Barrier
NORTH 18TH
Direction of the movement
NORTH 20TH
NORTH 22ND
ARCH STREET
JOHN F. KENNEDY BOULEVARD
MARKET STREET
FEET
LOGAN SQUARE
Neighborhood Development plan The project develops on the base of the site analysis, conducted to understand the existing coditions and identity of the neighborhood. It is important to contemplate, specifically, unique characteristics that defines a place, areas which are vibrant or asset of the community vs. areas that are poor performing and less attractive. Informed by this analysis, I was incharge of understanding and redesigning the neighborhood’s spine Benjamin Franklin Parkway. To accomplish the four goals i) reclaiming underutilized spaces ii) humanizing the scale of parkway
ii) maintaining the cultural identity and iv) priortizing pedestrians we proposed a culutral trail along the parkway. One of the strategy was reclaiming the logan square and giving it back to the community.
250 vehicles per hour CAPACITY: 3000 vehicles per hour
3 LANE in each direction
Reclaimed Service Lane SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL
SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL
Integrated places
New Community gardens
4 LANE ROW
New Public Plaza
New Community gardens
Reclaimed Square Lanes AVIATOR PARK 6 LANE ROW
AVIATOR PARK
SISTERS PARK
2 LANE in each direction
6 LANE ROW
New Community gardens
SISTERS PARK
New Public Plaza
350 vehicles per hour CAPACITY: 3000 vehicles per hour
Improved Pedestrian Crossing
3 LANE in each direction
330 vehicles per hour CAPACITY: 1500 vehicles per hour
Connected park space for the tourist and commuters visiting
Using programing, such as open theater/movie nights or christmas/
art market, to encourage community engagement/activities.
CALLOWHILL CUT HISTORIC RAIL PARK Site Planning
Inspired by the better Philadelphia challenge, this excerise looked at method to activate the currently under-utilized parking spaces in the city. I proposed a pragmatic, minimalistic historic trail at the callow hill cut, an abandoned rail infrastructure currently utilized as parking space. Using the idea of trail as dynamic usable public space, the historic trail/park aims as creating active and vibrant recreation space which serves a dual purpose of sharing city’s industrialization history.
CITY BRANCH ABANDONED RAIL NETWORK C AL CALLOW A LLLOW W H ILL STREE REETT REE
BROAD STREET
VINE STREETT EXPRESSWAY XP
HISTORIC RAIL PARK OF PHILADELPHIA C AL CALLOW A LLLOW W H ILL STREE REETT REE
BROAD STREET
VINE STREETT EXPRESSWAY XP
mentally unhealthy days 100 75 50 25
physically unhealthy days 100 75 50 25
density
100 75 50 25
Quantitative Data Anaysis
a full life in each state
years of life lost, distributed across counties
state
Quality of life in America
NA Wyoming Washington Virginia Utah Texas South Dakota Oregon New Mexico Nevada Nebraska Montana Missouri Mississippi Minnesota Michigan Kansas Idaho Hawaii Georgia Colorado California Alaska Connecticut Rhode Island Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey Vermont New York Iowa Wisconsin Maine Maryland Pennsylvania Illinois Delaware Ohio
District of Columbia Indiana Florida North Carolina Arizona South Carolina West Virginia Kentucky Louisiana Tennessee Arkansas Oklahoma Alabama 0
10000
20000
30000
lost life
the distributions suggest which states have the best outcomes
The problem The lives we live
state
The results showed that our settlement patterns are implicated in how we spend both our money and our time. Also our results show that increases in density correlate with decreases in our measure of unpleasantness.
Wyoming Wisconsin West Virginia Washington Virginia Vermont Utah Texas Tennessee South Carolina Rhode Island Pennsylvania Oregon Oklahoma Ohio North Dakota North Carolina New York New Mexico New Jersey New Hampshire Nevada Nebraska Montana Missouri Mississippi Minnesota Michigan Massachusetts Maryland Maine Louisiana Kentucky Kansas Iowa Indiana Illinois Idaho Georgia Florida Delaware Connecticut Colorado California Arkansas Arizona Alabama
value
100 75 50 25
Age.Adjusted.Mortality Association.Rate Average.Daily.PM2.5 Child.Mortality.Rate Chlamydia.Rate Costs Dentist.Ratio Drug.Overdose.Mortality.Rate Firearm.Fatalities.Rate Food.Environment.Index Graduation.Rate HIV.Prevalence.Rate Homicide.Rate Household.Income Income.Ratio Infant.Mortality.Rate Injury.Death.Rate Mentally.Unhealthy.Days MHP.Rate MHP.Ratio MV.Mortality.Rate Other.PCP.Ratio PCP.Ratio PCT...18 PCT.65.and.over PCT.African.American PCT.Alcohol.Impaired PCT.American.Indian.Alaskan.Native PCT.Asian PCT.Children.in.Poverty PCT.Diabetic PCT.Disconnected.Youth PCT.Drive.Alone PCT.Excessive.Drinking PCT.Fair.Poor PCT.Female PCT.Food.Insecure PCT.Free.or.Reduced.Lunch PCT.Frequent.Mental.Distress PCT.Frequent.Physical.Distress PCT.Hispanic PCT.Insufficient.Sleep PCT.LBW PCT.Limited.Access PCT.Long.Commute...Drives.Alone PCT.Mammography PCT.Native.Hawaiian.Other.Pacific.Islander PCT.Non.Hispanic.White PCT.Not.Proficient.in.English PCT.Obese PCT.Physically.Inactive PCT.Receiving.HbA1c PCT.Rural PCT.Severe.Housing.Problems PCT.Single.Parent.Households PCT.Smokers PCT.Some.College PCT.Unemployed PCT.Uninsured PCT.Uninsured.1 PCT.With.Access Physically.Unhealthy.Days Population Presence.of.violation Preventable.Hosp..Rate Segregation.index Segregation.Index Teen.Birth.Rate Violent.Crime.Rate X..Mental.Health.Providers Years.of.Potential.Life.Lost.Rate
The following project explored the relationship between misery and density in America. Based on the research by Anne Case and Angus Deaton--probing role of density in causing unhappiness, the study primarily focuses on understanding the effect of density on life outcomes, espeically spatial and social. To inform our analysis we began with an exploration of the life outcomes in United States, the ridge plot to the right shows the number of life lost across the nation.
North Dakota
indicator
HomeSale Price
Machine Learning & Predictive model This was a fictional client based geospatial analysis study conducted to improve the existing technology used by Zillow to predict home sale prices in Boston Accurately predicting home prices is difficult. Home prices are a function of many complex considerations including the physical characteristics, location, and other factors including seasonal variations and the personal preferences of buyers and sellers. To achieve better prediction accuracy, we collected various explanatory dataset to explain the variation in prices due to both physical characteristics of homes, and the underlying spatial patterns of prices in the region.
DHRUVI KOTHARI Urban Planner
Master of City & Regional Planning University of Pennsylvania, 2019 candidate Bachelor of Planning CEPT University dhruvi@design.upenn.edu 215.264.4197 4400 Spruce street, Philadelphia, PA 19104