After chatting with a few groups, I thought I might share some design guidelines I have found over the years that have helped me.

Rain Garden & Restorative Native Plant List (Compiled by me, this resource isn’t the most comprehensive)

Oregon Rain Garden Guide

EPA Green Street Design Guide

Seattle Green Roof Design Guide

Seattle Growing Food in Planting Strips Guide

Vancouver Urban Agriculture Garden Guide

Southeast False Creek Public Realm Enrichment Guide

Vancouver Urban Songbird Landscape Guide

Metro Vancouver – Maximizing Climate Adaptation Benefits with Trees 

Hi everyone:

The Cambie Corridor Public Realm Plan has a lot of great ideas and illustrations for the design of complete streets (walking, biking, transit, vehicles, public spaces and green infrastructure). You can find it here-

https://vancouver.ca/images/web/cambie-corridor/cambie-corridor-public-realm-plan.pdf

See the Assignment 3 tab for the schedule of meetings with Cynthia and the TAs about Project 3. These “input sessions” are an great opportunity to get some feedback about your ideas. You must attend your scheduled session to get your attendance grade for April 1 AND April 3. You do not need to come to class both days- only for your scheduled appointment.

Hi everyone: Michelle updated the methods for creating the green/gray maps. Please look at the revised version.

Good morning,

It was pointed out to me that the Interactive Supervised Classification method for determining green vs. grey makes a good map but does not give you an accurate amount of pixels to calculate the percentage of green vs. grey.

Please visit this page with the adjusted steps so that you can get a much more accurate calculation.

As per some student requests, see below for the shapefiles for Vancouver’s bus routes & water bodies:

Bus Routes

Water Bodies

I created a listing of the teams and their sites for Project 2.See Assignments> Project 2.

See where other sites are. For several teams you have another team either adjacent or slightly overlapping with yours. This is interesting because when it comes to making propositions you can collectively propose bigger ideas. Cynthia

I have updated the InDesign template. Please download the revised template. I added room for the 200 word critique on the third page. I added a matching MS Word template as well.  Cynthia

Please check your groups on the Canvas site. I re-shuffled the groups according to my notes from Monday. Please let me know if I got a group incorrect. Cynthia.

Hi everyone:
We have had challenges sorting out the teams for Project 1 and getting you in touch with each other. On Monday I will keep the lecture short and plan to give you about 45 minutes to work together as a team in the classroom. That will also give you a chance to ask any questions that come up.
Regards, Cynthia