Here is Germantown again. After reading the first LANDBOOK volume you should be equipped with a knowledge of issues and strategies relating to vacancy in general, as well as the general make-up of Germantown.
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The first question to ask is, “Where do we focus?” As a resident an obvious answer is, “My street!” But for the purpose of this poster we will explore opportunities on...
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The images of stakeholders and vacant land along the two streets give us a good understanding of the quality of the existing environment and where interventions are needed. To make a decision about where the best place to start is we can create a criteria for intervention in addition to visual observations of street conditions.
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What do the interventions look like?
Below are the vacant sites selected as the best candidates for use. They were selected based on observed conditions and the application of the judging criteria listed above and applied in the diagrams to the right. A before image of each shows the current condition and photo c o l l a g e s s h o w h o w i d e a s c o u l d b e a p p l i e d t o t h e m to improve conditions for community use.
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Assign a transparancy to vacant land areas based on the previous values.
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Locate vacant land on street + Identify number of adjacent land uses
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Now we need to take a little closer look at Germantown to understand where general strategies can be applied specifically to issues as they exist in the urban fabric of Germantown.
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