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Lab 3

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Lab3 Vancouver Tsunami Dangerous Map

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  • List the healthcare and educational facilities within the Vancouver danger zone, if any, and explain how you came up with your answer.

Facilities:

EMILY CARR INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN (ECIAD)

HENRY HUDSON ELEMENTARY

FALSE CREEK ELEMENTARY

ST ANTHONY OF PADUA

ECOLE ROSE DES VENTS

FALSE CREEK RESIDENCE

VILLA CATHAY CARE HOME

BROADWAY PENTECOSTAL LODGE

YALETOWN HOUSE SOCIETY

 

I used the selection by location tool to select education and healthcare layers from Vancouver danger. I then used the merge tool to merge these two layers into the same layer.

 

  • Provide a one or 2 sentence discussion of any potential risk to the new site for St. Paul’s Hospital.

Risk: the hospital might be flooded during the tsunami. Since it is built on a tidal flat, which has loose soil which may suffer from liquefaction during an earthquake, it also may be in danger during an earthquake.

 

Lab 2 Portfolio post

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  • Review your answers to question 2 and 5 to answer the following: for the general audience, describe how to fix misaligned and improperly referenced spatial data, including taking into consideration project properties.

Answer: We should consider if the data’s projection system is in accord with the map’s projection system or if the data or map has a projected system at all. If the projection systems are not the same, we should adjust them to the same system; if the map or the data has no projected system but a coordinate system, we should use a projected system to align the map and data.

  • Review your answer to question 10 and discuss the advantages to using remotely sensed Landsat data for geographic analysis.

Advantages:

– Remotely sensed Landsat data can reveal the whole picture of the selected study area.

– It can also document the changing of the landscape for future compare and contrast.

– Landsat data can be documented as raster images, which can be manipulated in ArcGIS to add more information (height, vegetation, slope, etc.) on.

GEOG 211 Term paper–ATMCO2

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Wow… Finally! I really enjoy the process of making progress on my own research path. Due to my limited resources of revealing all the factors of the increasing CO2 emission in terms of the transportation sector, I only come out of several important ones. But engaging in the process of looking at issues seriously and critically is an indispensable experience to me. Also, this paper gives me a chance to apply my knowledge from class to a field setting, in this case, China, which I always have a passion to change to a better place.

ENDS 221–Final project– Redevelop a region

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The section (5km by 5km in real) in the middle of the map below, which has massive green wrapping a  tiny developable region, is done by me, Jacqueline, and Sequeira. This is a group project (small groups in the tutorial group) in a group project (tutorial groups in the entire class) focusing on redevelopment and avoiding green zones. Therefore, our group’s development area, deducting the massive green zones shown on the city’s website, has little space left. A challenge we faced towards sustainable design is the trans-Canada highway’s division of this region. In order to ameliorate the highway’s inhospitable atmosphere to pedestrians and cyclists, we decided to put two bridge parks (the blue blocks with dash white line on the map) across the highway, inspired by the Bridge Park proposal overtop the CPR rails in Saskatoon’s downtown. This served not only as an extension of the looped transportation system (white line) we added to serve the entire region, but also as an extension of the park we planned nearby. Seeing our project in related with maps created by other tutorial members’ group and finally the entire class is genuinely memorable.Map

ENDS 221–Assignment 3–Arbutus Centre

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This project asked me to experiment as an urban designer at the Neighbourhood scale. I would decide how my region, the Arbutus Centre, might evolve over 40 years, towards increased sustainability. I was asked to double the existing density of this site by adding 500 dwelling units, add 150 job sites, and provide an integrated transportation system. I identified the pattern of dominating low-density bungalows, the listless and bulky Arbutus Shopping Centre and its hostile parking lot, the pedestrian friendly village park, and the dumpy up-scale Arbutus Club. Those various features above could be reserved, ameliorated, or entirely overturned to adapt for a sustainable future.

ENDS 221–Assignment 2–a place of sustainability

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Based on the 2006 Census tract profile, I identified the density pattern, the affordability pattern, the transportation mode pattern around the large Vancouver region. I further focused on one tract, the UBC campus, as my most familiar site at that time, to demonstrate UBC’s sustainability from its low carbon transportation modes, high-density private dwelling characteristics and other sustainable designs, management and education in the campus.

My self-portrait

Here is my self-portriat for VISA 183 class (drawing and painting)-drew in 2015 November, at the first term of my first year. Giving up my drawing and painting course due to my heavy course load in high school, I was once deeply frustrated due to a feeling of losing my entire capability to draw and paint at all. However, after practicing my drawing skills in VISA 183, I realized surprisingly that I was still capable and strongly enthusiastic about drawing. This drawing is based on a picture of me sitting on my bed in rez, holding my fluffy bear brought from home. I used pencil to sketch for my face at body at first due to my familiarization with this technique. I found, after a while, that I might want to address the intimacy comfortableness my teddy provided and tried to use color pencil for the first time. This project brought my lost faith on drawing back.

The Dodoc Turncoat Debate!

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2016-11-17-22-20-38I still can’t believe I went to such an interesting event. Encouraged by my ENDS 220 professor Neal, I used the promotion code “SALA” and bought the tickets to watch the debate in Dodoc, downtown. This debate is far from conventional ones of architectural design, which a panel of similar designers with similar views taking it in turns to talk at length about their similar projects: this is too light, dull, polite! This turncoats event is genuinely a shot in the arm: framed by theatrically provocative opening gambits about city planning is all about horse shit, which is true considering the birth of this disciplinary, a series of debates tackle fundamental issues with a playful and combative format designed to foment open and critical discussion, turning conventional consensus on its head.

The topic of this debate is whether city planners are the most important in terms of Vancouver’s development, or architects are the only ones that matter. Leslie Van Duzer and Bruce Carscadden, as architects, debated for architects in the first few turns and closed for planners’ side. Neal Lamontagne and Mitchell Reardon, similarly, advocated for planners at first and closed for architects. Leslie and Bruce’s elegant and powerful statement about architects are much alike conductors of an orchestra and they have the capabilities to meditate on the environment and structures while planners’ know nothing but constrained zoning codes. On the other hand, Neal and Mitchell focused on being generalists is superficial and useless: since planners might do not have such comprehensive knowledge of various fields, they appreciated active collaboration with architects, the community, geographers, historians, engineers, etc. At the end of this debate, both parties changed their seats and spoke for the other side.

One of the most interesting parts of this debate is the audiences’ participation of stating their point of view about this topic. I was deeply impressed by all people’s enthusiastic and potent statements.

Ultimately, I personally inclined to the city planners’ side for their more convincing voices in this debate, and most of the audience affirmed their winning. I went to Sura for Dolsot Bibimbap and barbecued pork after this feast. What a wonderful night! 🙂

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