Sustainable City Year Reports 2018-19 (Eugene and Gresham)

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Exploring New Mobility Street Designs for a Suburban Downtown in Transition
(University of Oregon, 2019-09) Tamang, Tshewang; Ribe, Rob
The following report documents student work that explores the redesign of several streets and the historic core of Gresham’s downtown. Students in the University of Oregon’s Landscape Architecture 4/589 design studio worked with the City of Gresham as part of the Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) to investigate how streets and related development could be planned and designed to meet and benefit from the emergence of new mobility options such as autonomous vehicles, ride-sharing, and micro-vehicles. Students were divided into teams and tasked initially with studying their assigned areas and developing a set of deliverables detailing existing current conditions. Students then worked, either in the same teams or independently, to create incremental design options for the near- and long-term. These designs were informed by an initial set of parameters, discussed between the studio instructor and the City of Gresham. The design parameters varied and were specific to the identified study area but were generally concerned with issues such as reducing the amount of on-street parking, delineating traffic lanes and narrowing lane widths, and repurposing any reclaimed space for stormwater management, planters, and other creative spatial uses when viewed through the lens of these emerging modes of transportation.