Category: Research Triangle

Placemaking and Design, Research Triangle

Chapel Hill (PARK)ing Day 2015

In the summer of 2015, undergraduate and graduate students interested in urban planning, design, and architecture participated in a five-week, design-intensive program at UC Berkeley’s College of Environment Design. The program, Design and Innovation for Sustainable Cities (Disc*), aimed to engage students in iterative, design-based solutions in order to reclaim public space for people, and included an underlying emphasis on tactical urbanism. Pursuant to the program’s mission, DISC* … Continue reading Chapel Hill (PARK)ing Day 2015

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Economic Development, Research Triangle

North Carolina: The Future of the Clean Energy and Tech Economy

North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, and its surrounding region, have grown exponentially over the last half century. This change is driven by a variety of knowledge-based industries that transformed the region into one of the most productive and innovative in the country. Information technology (IT), telecommunications, biotechnology, medicine, and innovative entrepreneurship have all contributed to local and regional economic growth, aided by a steady flow … Continue reading North Carolina: The Future of the Clean Energy and Tech Economy

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Downtown Revitalization, Research Triangle, Transportation

Exploring Downtown Chapel Hill’s Informal Pathways

In this report, authors Aaron Hursey and Melanie Morgan explore the often overlooked ways of getting from here to there. The pair identified and analyzed thirteen informal pathways between Hillsborough Road and Raleigh Road to the East and West, and between the UNC campus and Rosemary Street to the North and South for Professor William Rohe’s Urban Neighborhood Revitalization course. In a report prepared for the … Continue reading Exploring Downtown Chapel Hill’s Informal Pathways

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Placemaking and Design, Research Triangle

The Potential for Community Design in the Triangle

The Triangle is uniquely positioned to embrace a new model for community design, capitalizing on a rich network of design initiatives and building on its legacy as a center for innovation. Design Community: The Potential for Community Design in the Triangle, the result of research conducted throughout the fall of 2014 and spring of 2015, extends the conversation about the potential of community design to … Continue reading The Potential for Community Design in the Triangle

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Research Triangle, Transportation

Changing It Up: Rail Stations and Demographic Change

This article was adapted a project presented in partial fulfillment of a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by Melanie Morgan under the guidance of Noreen McDonald, PhD. While there is no doubt that mass transit has many benefits, planners should be aware of these propensities for change when promoting TOD policies and must think critically about how … Continue reading Changing It Up: Rail Stations and Demographic Change

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Downtown Revitalization, Research Triangle

Open Data: an Answer to the Downtown Data Dilemma

Downtown Anytown, USA is a challenging research subject. Vague terminology, idiosyncratic boundaries, and limited data availability have contributed to a disconnected and incomplete body of research on the contemporary downtown. A downtown’s geography is a particularly vexing matter; there is no formal or even consensus definition for downtown; they are not recognized by the government, the Census Bureau, or the Postal Service, so many traditional sources for demographic and housing data are not readily applicable to a city’s urban core. Continue reading Open Data: an Answer to the Downtown Data Dilemma

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