Sustainable City Year Reports 2010-11 (Salem)https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/114322024-03-28T09:54:39Z2024-03-28T09:54:39ZSalem Transportation Safety AnalysisJohnson, Pamela C.Monsere, Chrishttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/116782015-06-17T14:14:19Z2010-01-01T00:00:00ZSalem Transportation Safety Analysis
Johnson, Pamela C.; Monsere, Chris
Portland State University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
explored various traffic safety concerns in the City of Salem. The Salem
Transportation Safety Analysis was conducted by Portland State University civil
engineering students. Intersections with high crash statistics and other safety
issues were selected by the City of Salem for evaluation. Some of the locations
did not have traffic problems but needed improved facilities to increase walking
and biking.
The students were asked to recommend possible modifications and solutions to
existing traffic safety concerns. Ten separate studies were conducted by the civil
engineering students. The groups evaluated the existing traffic conditions and
developed recommendations using traffic safety evaluation methods learned in
the Transportation Safety Analysis course.
58 pages
2010-01-01T00:00:00ZBrownfields/Green Neighborhoods: Integrating Riverfront Park with Pringle CreekCostic, AlexandraOchs, KelseyThoren, Roxihttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/116772015-06-17T14:06:01Z2010-01-01T00:00:00ZBrownfields/Green Neighborhoods: Integrating Riverfront Park with Pringle Creek
Costic, Alexandra; Ochs, Kelsey; Thoren, Roxi
University of Oregon students in a combined architecture and landscape
architecture studio worked together to research and develop ideas for integrating
Riverfront Park with Pringle Creek and for the redevelopment of downtown
Salem’s South Waterfront. Working with City of Salem staff, students explored
sustainable urban design-based approaches to the revitalization of the thirteenacre
riverfront site that included ecological restoration, riverfront access and
transportation improvements, and community-oriented land use. Student
recommendations drew from City of Salem goals for the South Waterfront Urban
Renewal Area, which include daylighting Pringle Creek, improving bicycle and
pedestrian access to the site and to Riverfront Park, and promoting profitable
mixed-use development. During the Spring 2011 term, students worked to
demonstrate ways in which principles of environmental design coupled with
community-oriented land use would give the South Waterfront a productive role
in Salem once again.
70 pages
2010-01-01T00:00:00ZNorth Downtown Waterfront Development: Building Design ProposalsSchmidt, Elizabeth M.Larco, Nicohttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/116762017-05-04T17:36:48Z2010-01-01T00:00:00ZNorth Downtown Waterfront Development: Building Design Proposals
Schmidt, Elizabeth M.; Larco, Nico
During the Fall 2010 and Winter 2011 academic terms at the University of
Oregon, twelve students in an architecture studio course worked with the City
of Salem to develop twelve different architectural programs and designs for the
redevelopment of Salem’s North Downtown Waterfront.Proposals include a Salem river research center, brewpubs, museums,
recreation centers, hotels, and housing. A river research center has the potential
to draw tourism to the area and to provide a home for new and innovative
research. Brewpubs would provide another form of attraction, fitting in to the
current industrial feel of the area. Museums and civic attractions can provide a
complement to the downtown commercial district, and higher-density housing
will help support any potential new businesses. This wide range of project types
displays the great potential of the site as a whole.
58 pages
2010-01-01T00:00:00ZHigh Performance, High Density, High Ambitions: Housing for the Salem Housing AuthorityO'Neil, ShaneKeyes, Peterhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/116752015-06-17T13:22:03Z2010-01-01T00:00:00ZHigh Performance, High Density, High Ambitions: Housing for the Salem Housing Authority
O'Neil, Shane; Keyes, Peter
In collaboration with Peter Keyes’s 2011 Advanced Architectural Design Studio
at the University of Oregon and the Sustainable Cities Initiative, the City of
Salem and the Salem Housing Authority (SHA) sought to re-imagine the future
of public housing so that it would dignify those who inhabit it and do so in a more
economically, environmentally, and ecologically sustainable manner than is
currently the norm.Following their research and analysis, the students generated room, unit, and
building prototypes based on an understanding of their relationship to different
local contexts. The students subsequently developed infill and redevelopment
proposals for three multi-family properties currently owned by the SHA: Orchard
Village, Meadowlark Village, and Glen Creek. The SHA provided students a list
of goals focused on optimizing the use of available resources, including energy,
land, water, and materials. Building on the SHA’s goals, the students sought to
elevate perceptions of what is possible in low-income housing.
85 pages
2010-01-01T00:00:00Z