Sean Buckley Urban Planning
SEAN BUCKLEY
PHONE
+ 1-859-446-1784
ADDRESS
3526 Shadyside Drive Erlanger, KY 41018 United States
URBAN PLANNING & DESIGN
E D U C AT I O N
WO R K E X P E R I E N C E
2011 HIGH SCHOOL
2015
Covington Catholic High School 2015 Park Hills, Kentucky Three Years of Art Education Vice President of art Club President of Chess Club Involved in Theatre Productions Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts of America 2 0 1 5 B AC H E LO R O F U R B A N P L A N N I N G
University of Cincinnati, DAAP 2021 Cincinnati, Ohio
3.5 GPA Dean’s List: 5 Semesters Pursuing Bachelors Degree in Urban Planning with a Certificate in Geographic Information Systems. Interests in Urban Design, Sustainability and Social Justice
bucklesu@mail.uc.edu
2018
TORN LIGHT RECORDS
Cashier Bellevue, Kentucky
Cashier and store representative Priced and stocked new and used music Gave recommendations and discussed music with customers DJ during open hours SPR 2018
WO O L P E RT
Planning Intern in Dayton, Ohio
Military Planning Intern Performed Graphic Production Assembly of hard copy client submittals Aided day to day office operations
VO LU N T E E R WO R K
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
2013 HOSEA HOUSE
PROFICIENT
2017
Newport, Kentucky Occasionally volunteer to distribute food to the homeless people in Newport, Kentucky
2015 BRIGHTON CENTER
Florence, Kentucky
Designed Organized and Led the construction of five new raised garden beds and two compost bins for the kitchen of the Brighton Center, a Womens Recovery Center
PHOTOSHOP I L L U S T R ATO R INDESIGN ARCGIS AUTOCAD SKETCHUP
K N OW L E D G E A B L E HTML & CSS PYTHON RHINO
INTERESTS
Sustainability, Geography, Social & Environmental Justice, Landscape Design, Drawing , Painting , Watercolors, Car tography
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Table of Contents Walnut Hills Neighborhood Analysis
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Interpreting Contours as Landscapes
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Site Planning Inventory, Analysis, and Design
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Woolpert
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Writing Sample
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Art Work
20-21
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Walnut Hills Neighborhood Analysis My second semester I worked in a group doing analysis on the neighborhood of Walnut Hills in Cincinnati, Ohio. We analyzed impressions of the neighborhood, Identity, Imageability, Mobility, History, Census Data, Typologies as well as Land Use. I created maps and graphics with my group to illustrate our observations and analysis. My group was Ben Bailey, Jianyu Wang, and myself.
Imageability map of Walnut Hills. Defines Paths, Districts, Landmarks, Nodes, and Edges Hand Drawn 4
Poster detailing the history of Walnut Hills. Illustrator
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Census Data Poster identifying indicators to describe the neighborhood ArcMap, Illustrator
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Walnut Hills Building footprint, Land use, and Pedestrian Walk Shed. Illustrator, ArcMap
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Interpreting Contours as Landscapes
Exploration Of Electric Prisms through different methodology such as comparing lights and darks, reading textures as well as finding line weight and brush stroke patterns reveals hidden organic shapes and creates interesting compositions. The painting Electric Prisms 1913 by Sonia Delaunay was examined through different methodology to examine how different factors can impact perception of a design. I broke down my piece into different cropped portions than pulled out interesting compositions through ideas like saturation of color, and direction of brush stroke texture. The composition became a foam core model with a scale and illustrates my question of, what would it be like to walk through an abstract painting?
20" x 20" foam core board
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Iterative sketches to find geometry
Drawing showing grading and elevations 20" x 20" pencil
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Site Planning Studio Inventory and Analysis
COLERAIN SPRINGFIELD
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Legend
Reaga n Hw y
Building Footprint
Hamilton Av
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Our studio was given a client located in the city of North College, located on the northern border of Cincinnati. During Fall 2017 Site Planning Studio, my studio took the position of a planning firm who are hired by their client to preform a Site Inventory of their relatively large site in North College Hill. Each student was responsible for various inventory and analysis for the surrounding area and each student created design proposals for the client.
SPRINGFIELD
Street Center Line Agriculture
W.Galbr ath Road
Industrial Commercial Residential Vacant
CINCINNATI SPRINGFIELD
One Finished Board ArcMap and Illustrator
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0.25
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1 Mile
Institutions Publicly Owned Open Space
Combination of spatial site suitability indicators ArcMap
Slope
Distance from bus stops
Distance from Open Space
Distance from Local Amenities
Elevation view of a sidewalk path from a site in North College Hill to a nearby grocery store, taking note of urban design elements considered by the United Nations Illustrator
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Site Design: Birdland Accessibility in planning is the search for a solution to a space that can be used by all people. Research in accessibility only stands to improve all peoples lives and bring everyone together. While finding a way to properly use a space primarily for housing of sightless and visually impaired peoples I explored the idea of using a portion of a public park that is land owned by the client but being leased to the local government in North College Hill. The park seemed like an excellent location because of the proximity to the main facility being used by the visually impaired consumers and the fact that the park being is drastically underutilized. My goal was to design a housing development that brought members of this community into this park while providing necessary amenities for the visually impaired people. I explored the idea that a healthy community behaves in a lot of ways like a jazz combo, each entity adopts a role; the rhythm, the roll, the melody and so on. The people keep the tempo though, this is important. Different stakeholders in a community may fill a role but it is all in service of the people. Isn't making a space as usable as possible with the smallest impact on the nature and with the greatest equality what planning and design is all about? It is for me.
Illustration of the Housing development in the park. Drawing and Photoshop over SketchUp
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Site Plan of the Birdland housing development. Hand drawn plan to AutoCAD to ArcMap to Illustrator
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Rendering of a proposed nature walk and connecting pathway. Original photography with pngs from skalgubbar.se in Photoshop
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HAMILTON AVENUE
LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL
HOUSING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PROGRAMS OR SERVICES
OPEN SPACE
OPEN SPACE
PARKING
IDE
WEST GAL
MEDIUM DENSITY RESIDENTIAL
BRAITH RO A
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NORTH COLEGE HILL
S PARK PIE
SCHOOLS PARKING
PROGRAM OR SERVICE AROUND SITE
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PATHS INSI
PATHS
CLOVERNOOK
PARKING
Relationship diagram between of who interacts with and stands to benefit from the space in the park behind Clovernook. Illustrator
Elevation view of the site or the housing complex and the possible conversion of a concrete swale into a natural swale and nature walk. Illustrator
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Woolpert
For my first Co-Op in the Spring of 2018 I worked at Woolpert in Dayton, Ohio as a Planning Intern. The planning team at Woolpert primarily does Department of Defense Master Planning on United States military installations. I was exposed to a new world of planning at Woolpert and was guided by some very excellent planners. My work was mainly preparation of graphics for submittal documents ranging from 3D models to cartographic requirements for the different military branches.
3D model of Wheeler Army Airfield in Hawaii rendered by Case Devisser SketchUp
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Capacity planning site drawings for Fort Detrick, Maryland
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Writing What is my “Place” My writing sample is a personal reflection on "place" and how I can affect change in "place" through my work as a planner, As well as a response to Alex Marshall's Writing in How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken.
I am constantly reminded of “place” in my everyday life. For much of my life I grew up dreading my home town just like many young people. The place where I grew up felt so incredibly small and confining to someone who viewed the rest of the world as so much more progressive, more modern and filled with so many possibilities. It wasn’t until recently that I realized the importance and beauty of the place that I came of age. The world still is so big but I have a role here where I am and work to do to improve it where I can, and that is due to the sense of place that was established in me through stopping for a moment to think and to look at what all of this “place” means to me. It is amazing the significance a background can have on how the subject of a painting is formed. I grew up just outside of Cincinnati Ohio. For so long I was given other people’s interpretations of the city of Cincinnati. People I knew would describe it as “dirty” or “very dangerous” it was too easy to incorporate these ideas into my own perceptions of Cincinnati. The earliest I remember being in the city my mother had taken me to work with her downtown, I remember it being cold and the scent of burnt gasoline stung my lungs but I remember looking straight up into the sky and feeling so small compared to the megaliths that surrounded me. I believe this is where I first wondered where I fit into this “place”, how can I be so small and still hold significance. Alex Marshall discusses “place” in depth in his book, How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken. In much of the book he describes how “place” was created by the lack of private mobility and when the interstate highways were established “place” suffered due to people moving out of communities and into suburbs, and there were no longer central locations or gathering places. I agree with Marshall, the interstates and highways have removed a large amount of community, but because of these interstates I have been able to travel throughout the United States and North
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America. In Traveling I have met many kinds of people and have had the opportunity to talk to them about where they are from and where they have been. Experiencing these cities and these people has highlighted to me the beauty of Cincinnati, it is my identifier when someone asks me where I am from, And I am proud of it. I disagree with Marshall that there is no longer community gathering places. I have spent a considerable amount of time at a small record store owned by my brother called Torn Light Records, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati in Bellevue, Kentucky. Spending that time behind the register gave me the opportunity to see many of the same people from around the region come in. We talk about music and the community and how our days have been, or even just about the weather. This record store is a “place” it is where people come together and talk with a stranger about what they care about. This “place” does not seem very much different from the ones Marshall would talk about, and I believe these places exist all over the United States as people we will always seek out “places” to discuss what matters to them. My experiences away from my city have helped foster that sense of place for me. It inspires me as a planner when I meet people who desire to make the city that they live as good of a “place” as possible. I believe that there is such a beautiful sense of community in cities and towns all over the world, so many passionate and dedicated people. For me none of those places will never have the same “place” as where I grew into the person I am now and where my passion for the artistry and impact of planning was fostered. “Place” is in Cincinnati, Ohio for me.
Torn Light Records, Bellevue, KY
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Artwork A selected collection of drawings and paintings and sculpture done by myself. I am inspired by in portraiture and expressionist paintings.
Wood block print
Pen and watercolor Self Portrait Pencil and watercolor
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Acrylic paints
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Sean Buckley Urban Planning Portfolio bucklesu@mail.uc.edu +1-859-446-1784