Tulane Regional Urban Design Center: Selected Works Tulane University School of Architecture New Orleans, LA
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Longpao Low Carbon New Town Master Plan - Liuhe, China Lakefront Scenic Highway & Nodal Urban Development - Changxing, China Eco-Resort & New Village Plan - Changxing, China Strategic Recovery Plan - St. Bernard Parish, LA Regional Strategic Plan - Nantong, China Nanxu New Town Master Plan - Zhenjiang, China Menxi Restoration & Redevelopment Master Plan - Nanjing, China Qianmen Hutong Neighborhood Restoration & Redevelopment Plan - Beijing, China XiaoZhaZhen Development Master Plan - Shanghai, China Children’s Park Master Plan - Mandeville, LA
Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall - Mandeville, LA Forks of the Road Slave Market Site - Natchez, MS Pilgrimage Garden Club Historic Home Preservation - Natchez, MS
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Tulane Regional Urban Design Center School of Architecture 6823 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans, LA 70118 504.314.2376 office 504.862.8798 fax trudc@tulane.edu
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Grover E. Mouton, III - Director Nick Jenisch - Project Director Robert Bracken - Design Associate Kevin Muni - Student Associate
Past Team Members: James Carse Kobe Sackey Katie Wells-Driscoll Allison Albericci Landon Anderson Max Deuble Jake Brillhart
Students & Interns: Amber Stewart Matt Lee Kyle McCluskey Tiffany Woolley Frances Guevara Karen Wang
Tianjin Luo, Robert Bracken, Grover Mouton, & Kent Schuette join their hosts to tour a project site in ChangXing, China
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Karen Wang, Robert Bracken, Jeff Soule, Grover Mouton, & Kent Schuette enjoy a break in Shanghai
Grover Mouton & Jake Brillhart walk atop the Great Wall of China outside Beijing
Jake Brillhart & James Carse explore a historic site in ZhouZhuang
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Grover Mouton, Nick Jenisch, & Tianjin Luo conclude a project presentation in ChangXing
The TRUDC team joins its mainland China colleagues before a presentation in Shanghai
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Tianjin Luo, Grover Mouton, & James Carse tour a project site in ZhouZhuang
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The TRUDC addresses critical issues of urban design and land use planning towards the development of a quality physical environment. The TRUDC provides institutional support to various local and regional civic officials, non-profit community groups, and other civic entities of all sizes: communities, districts, towns, and cities. Situated within Tulane University’s School of Architecture, the TRUDC conducts project-oriented research, planning ordinance & policy review, and advises clients regarding strategies for project implementation. The primary goal of the TRUDC is to provide high quality, interdisciplinary, urban design capability. It serves as an independent catalyst for anticipating, exploring, and helping to resolve critical development issues facing cities around the globe. The work of the TRUDC expands the body of knowledge about urban design in general and about urban design issues in the New Orleans and Gulf Coast region in particular. Projects undertaken by the TRUDC range from the Mayors’ Institute on City Design South to local and regional non-profit design work for entities including the City of New Orleans, community action groups, and regional municipalities such as Covington & Mandeville, Louisiana and Biloxi, Natchez, & Moss Point, Mississippi. The need in both the City of New Orleans and the region is unparalleled. Most local communities and small towns are expanding at a tremendous growth rate with little or no urban design help. Local governments are simply not equipped to handle anything more than day to day code enforcement and project reviews. As the economy shifts gears and the coastal recovery effort continues, a fresh perspective must be applied to the urban development and planning challenges that emerge. The TRUDC helps communities face their most pressing issues using academic study along with professional analysis and design. The office’s international profile has grown through its relationship with the American Planning Association’s China Division. Recent and current projects in China include planning and design projects within the cities of Shanghai, Nantong, Nanjing, Tianjin, Changxing, Beijing, and Zhenjiang. This work, performed over the past 8 years, has served to support and expand our local efforts. The opportunity to work on large-scale planning and urban design projects has been a wonderful experience for the TRUDC staff, and has exposed Tulane students to international design in one of the fastest-growing markets on the planet, attempting to face the challenges of urbanization on an unprecedented timescale. The TRUDC in cooperation with the APA uses demonstration projects to educate government leadership and city agencies on the methods and benefits of quality urban design.
History
The Tulane Regional Urban Design Center (TRUDC) was established with a grant from Arthur Q. Davis in the summer of 1996.
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Longpao Low Carbon Strategic Development Plan Longpao, LiuHe, China in cooperation with the American Planning Association client: LiuHe County Government Fall 2010 - Spring 2011
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Working for the Chinese government Party Chairman for LiuHe, directly across the Yangtze River from historic Nanjing, the primary task given to the TRUDC was to create a strategic plan and urban design framework for a new “lowcarbon” development at Longpao, a small existing town slated for expansion to nearly 1/2 million residents. The TRUDC conducted site analysis, regional positioning and urban design strategies, and recommendations within assigned 56, 30, and 5km study areas. From the TRUDC’s study report: Longpao has the opportunity to become a premier site for new development in the Lower Yangtze Delta Region. If LiuHe executes development at Longpao correctly, the site will serve as a launching pad for other development projects in eastern LiuHe along the north/ south “ecotourism corridor” linking Nanjing and Longpao with Golden Ox Lake and Mt. Ping Forest Park.
Above: Major industrial areas surrounding Longpao Left: Regional development strategy Below: Longpao’s location in the Lower Yangtze Delta Region Opposite: Regional and site analysis diagrams
It is important to note that the concept of a low-carbon development involves many different features that work together to reduce energy use. If parts of this
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strategy are not pursued by both government and private developers, it will become unrealistic to market Longpao as a progressive, low-carbon new town, compromising the long-term viability of the development. Because Longpao is located in an ideal location and will soon be accessible by several major highways and cross-river connections, it will experience a development boom regardless of the design approach. However, this advantage will fade over time as infrastructure connections continue to expand, reaching more and more people and regions. The long-term success of the region will be built upon the low-carbon principles outlined in this report and the pursuit of a high quality of life through environmental clean-up and preservation. Creating a small development footprint, monitoring and mitigating water and air quality, preserving local ecosystems, attracting progressive and expanding businesses rather than declining industries, exploring sustainable energy sources, implementing sustainable agricultural practices, and improving the efficiency of municipal services should be considered as a network of equal goals, pursued and implemented without sacrificing one for another. In this way, Longpao can create, market, and truly maintain the status of low-carbon new town with a high quality of life for its residents.
Above: Street Sections & Landuse Map Below: Canalfront Renderings Opposite: Downtown Waterfront District & Regional Layered Analysis
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Nanxu New Town Master Plan Zhenjiang, China in cooperation with the American Planning Association client: Zhenjiang City Government Fall 2004 - Spring 2005
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Nanxu New Town is located southwest of historic Zhenjiang, China, where poets, musicians, and the arts have been celebrated for centuries. This vibrant and important city faces the same growth pressures as most Chinese cities, planning for millions of new residents in the coming decade. The TRUDC urban design strategy was three-tiered: it aimed to preserve the existing city along the Yangtze River, consolidate new government facilities and development in a “new town” that would take advantage of incoming high-speed rail and other infrastructure, and create links between the two areas to ensure efficiency and proper access to new and existing amenities. The focal development zone for Nanxu consists of 30 sq. kilometers, designated in the 2002 Zhenjiang City Master Plan. The plan for Nanxu began with infrastructure analysis and ended with design guidelines, creating a comprehensive blueprint for development over the next 10-15 years. Elements of the plan include the following: 1. Dense urban core with administrative, financial, and cultural functions -Admin. - 500,000 sq. meters -Communist Party Commission -City Government -City People’s Congress -City Political Consultative Conf. -Gov’t. Administrative Units -Auxiliary Offices/Facilities -Finance - 200,000 sq. meters -City Finance Institution -City Management Institution -City Information Institution -City Legal Institution -Culture - 300,000 sq. meters -City Convention Center -City Exhibition Center -International Exchange Center -City Library -City Modern Art Gallery -City Opera House -City Science & Tech. Center 2. Mixed-income residential and mixed-use development 3. Recreation using characteristics of urban forestry and the Runyang Bridge landscape
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Location of Zhenjiang in Jiangsu Province
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Urban Design Master Plan for Nanxu New Town Conceptual Designs for Transportation Hub, Government Center and Mixed Commercial & Residential Development
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Transportation Analysis with Street Sections
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Central Canal - Sketch Proposals
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Financial Center - Sketch Proposals
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Menxi Restoration & Redevelopment Master Plan Nanjing, China in cooperation with the American Planning Association client: Nanjing City Government Fall 2002 - Summer 2003
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Nanjing is located approximately 200 miles west of Shanghai. Its history is rooted in its foundation as a planned capital city under 4 separate rules: the ’six dynasties period’, the Tang dynasty, the Ming dynasty, and Republican rule. The result is a visible sequence of distinct attitudes in city planning within the historical city. Planning is inseparable from the historical evolution of this city which is bound by the layering of barriers (four distinct city walls: the palace wall, the imperial city wall, the capital city wall, and the outer city wall) along a rolling topography. Nanjing is an ideal place in which to make a case for preservation, as the city has established a framework for growth that has, to some extent, protected the historical core of the city while providing growth and development possibilities in adjacent districts. The Men Xi District is characterized by its relationship to the Ming city wall and gate which still define its boundaries and the ambiance of the ’Li-Fang’ street system. Secondary opportunities for preservation exist in the restoration of a number of listed historical sites, possibilities offered by the inner Qin Hua River, and a Ming dynasty garden within the site. A number of self-built additions within housing units and over population in this relatively low density (large footprint) neighborhood is threatening preservation.
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Nanjing on the Yangtze River
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The City Walls of Nanjing
The MenXi District: Preservation Focus Area
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Four Thousand Eight Hundred buildings and a population of approximately Twenty Five Thousand residents make up the current Menxi Site. Unbuilt space exists primarily in the form of the street with the central garden as an exception. Courtyards and street nodes such as public wells make up the remaining open space. There is a clearly defined emphasis on internalized open space, the courtyard and the complex historical street pattern. To the north of the site [and in small pockets internal to the site] large scale development disrupts the historical image of the site. This large scale development is characterized by being larger than 5 stories in height, having a modern, often concrete or tiled, facade and not maintaining the street edge. The TRUDC team used the French Quarter as a tool to investigate urban scale and density. The MenXi site is coincidentally about the same size as the French Quarter, and shares the tradition of courtyard buildings. Though much of MenXi should be preserved, the Quarter provides a good example of how the neighborhood might maintain its historic character while increasing density to accommodate an ever-rising population. Tenets of the Master Plan: 1. The development pattern will be mixed use commercial, civic and residential as the area has always been historically 2. Three basic sub zones will be created: the western development zone, transition zone and the historic zone 3. The proposed transportation plan for the area must be abandoned and our circulation system should become the new official transportation plan for the area 4. Overall density of MenXi must remain the same, but should be rearranged to provide the maximum economic value while staying within the historic context. 5. The subway should add a station at the outer QinHuai River 6. The area adjacent to the gate and where there is no city wall should be the highest commercial use for the entertainment and tourism function 7. Factories must be moved out in order to achieve development needed to pay for improvements in the historic area and generate local demand for a new urban living area
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Comparitive Overlays & Scale Analysis using the French Quarter
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Major Infrastructure & Reconstituted Western Avenues
Redevelopment on the Site’s Western Half
Preservation to the East
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Qianmen Hutong Neighborhood Restoration & Redevelopment Master Plan Beijing, China in cooperation with the American Planning Association client: Beijing City Government Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
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Beijing must be represented by the romance of the historical Hutong and the power of economic growth made evident through carefully placed and sensitively designed new developments. A unified view of the Qianmen East site should include its potential for simultaneous development and preservation. The type of urban place possible on site is determined and shaped by the use of its own existing elements, but also those of greater central Beijing, defining and distinguishing the image this neighborhood will ultimately convey. Specific analysis tied directly to design and service elements such as traffic and parking, historic preservation, landscape, infrastructure, and development phasing are needed to ensure the aforementioned goals of the project are supported and met. At the heart of any appropriate planning scheme for Qianmen East, must lie the preservation of the historic Hutong atmosphere; strict guidelines are needed in order to preserve this, the greatest natural resource the site has to offer. Many of the Hutong streets cannot properly support the consistent vehicle traffic that should be expected given the planned market value of new or restored residences within the site. Intense analysis of individual street character, pedestrian access, and the new uses of preserved historic sites must be considered, principally regarding access to both private and neighborhood parking. Further, infrastructural inputs to and outputs from the new 15m roads must correlate more closely with the specific uses of each region, including consideration of vehicle usership, access to public transportation, and designated pedestrian ways. A balanced range of commercial development is key to the overall success of the site, providing the larger image being created and perceived by potential new residents, Beijing’s citizens, and tourists both international and domestic. Such a perception is shaped with the careful placement of high-end commercial/retail development mixed with art galleries, workshops, and neighborhood shopping.
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Qianmen, outlined in blue, holds great importance as one of Beijing’s cultural districts, located directly adjacent to Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City
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XiaoZhaZhen Development Master Plan Shanghai, China in cooperation with the American Planning Association client: Shanghai City Government & Private Developer Spring 2004 - Spring 2005
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In July 2004, our design team, in collaboration with the APA, traveled to Shanghai, China in order to survey, analyze, and review both general strategies for development in Xuhui District and a proposed project on the site known as XiaoZhaZhen. Our conclusions should serve as a critique of planning policy and methodologies and as an educational tool to aid in decision making regarding this and other large scale developments in Shanghai. The impact of a large scale development reaches far beyond its physical form. These developments can spur growth and investment or clog highways and divide communities. The primary role of the urban designer is to study, on both, the district and site scale the current condition of the area and, further to understand the physical impact such a development might have. The secondary role is to seek out the opportunities for development which promote smart sustainable growth. The tertiary role of the designer is to discover the identity of the area where it exists and to create that identity where it doesn’t. These three roles allow the Urban Designer to create a successful place rather than just an image on the horizon. The residential typology represented in this study is indicative of contemporary high end residential projects occurring throughout Shanghai and China. Xuhui has historically existed as a high end residential area. The district itself is characterized by low rise residential construction and a garden atmosphere. This characterization only loosely holds true for the more modern developments. These modern developments are gated and filled with linear green spaces between buildings. Though aesthetically pleasing and attractive to residents this investment does not contribute to the public environment. Lack of character along the corridors is what distinguishes high rise residential developments from the historic development throughout the Xuhui District. Xuhui’s character can be identified through the success of its streets and the potential for its corridors. Gated communities must address these corridors to be in keeping with the spirit of Xuhui.
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Above: Major Commerical/Industrial Corridors leading to Shanghai & within the city proper Opposite: Location of site in Shanghai’s French Concession
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Extensive Site Analysis & Resultant Preliminary Designs
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XiaoZhaZhen Master Plan Recommendations
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Comprehensive Design Guidelines were created for the site to ensure quality architecture and urban development
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Waterfront Children’s Park Mandeville, LA client: Mandeville City Government Summer 2005 - Fall 2007
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In 2005, the TRUDC undertook a unique project in the City of Mandeville, LA. Building on Director Grover Mouton’s experience creating public places in the city, including a trailhead along their 32-mile rails-to-trails pathway and a new town center, an interactive playscape was designed for families, including children of all ages. Innovative musical play equipment, sustainable water features, shaded pergolas, and age-compartmentalized play areas were all incorporated into the design. Groundscape changes and additions were also made to give the park further dimension and interest, along with a number of new trees and other plantings. A phased approach makes the project affordable and implementable. After a significant delay and redesign following Hurricane Katrina, the park design has been funded and will be constructed in 2009. The success of the park plan has led Mandeville to ask the TRUDC to take on its entire lakefront plan, including signage, recreation, historic interpretation, landscaping, plazas, piers, and all other public aspects of the Lake Pontchartrain shoreline.
The park site is located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, directly adjacent to the Mandeville Yacht Club, a public boat launch, Bayou Castaine, and Fontainebleau State Park. The site is approximately 30 miles from New Orleans.
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Phase I Items Price Angle Leg Park Bench (2) $254 Litter Receptacle (2) $560 Loop Bike Rack (2) $215 Bollard (2) $121 Pergola Pergola Base & Stairs Concrete Water Feature Running Water System (untreated) Concrete Surfacing Blue Stone Surfacing Estimated Installation Costs
Total $508 $1120 $430 $242 $12,000 $11,400 $5,000 $10,000 $2,000 $7,000 $20,000*
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