Rachel Lindt // Portfolio
Master in Urban and Regional Planning Candidate 2015UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Spring 2015Figure 1: Poster for Master’s Capstone Project for Client, The Trust for Public Land 3
Fall 2014Site PlanningFigure 1: Layers of the Fashion District Conceptual Diagram 5
Figure 2: Fashion District as Latino Plaza Conceptual Diagram 6
Figure 3: Green Alley Proposal 7
Spring 2014Transportation and Land Use: Transit-Oriented Development Studio
Figure 4: Grand Station Intervention 9
Figure 5: Design Strategy Conceptual Diagram 10
Winter 2014Introduction to Physical Planning
Figure 6: Palms Neighborhood: Return to Rail + Architecture Transformation 12 Figure 7: User Groups and Teen Place Preference: Cheviot Farms Market on National Boulevard 13 Figure 8: Pedestrian and Cyclist Amenities Proposal for the Intersection of Motor Boulevard and National Boulevard in the Palms Neighborhood 14
Fall 2013Graphics + Urban Information
Figure 8: Photoshop Panorama Rendering After Intervention (Left-Side) 16 Figure 9: Photoshop Panorama Rendering After Intervention (Right-Side) 17
Figure 10: Sketch-up Rendering After Intervention, Looking West 18
Figure 11: Sketch-up Rendering After Intervention, Plan View 19
Spring 2015Master’s Capstone Project
My Master’s capstone is an applied-research project for The Trust for Public Land, a national non-profit organization focused on land preservation for people. The research focuses on understanding the challenges and barriers to standardizing green alleys citywide in Los Angeles and other cities. Throughout this academic-year process, I have developed the following skills:
• Creating an interviewing instrument, recruiting interviewees, and conducting interviews
• Analyzing data sets and visualizing findings• Organizing and writing an academic research project• Developing a research methodology• Communicating and working with a client
The following figure is the poster for the exhibition held in April 2015.
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Assessing the Potential to Implement Green Alleys Citywide
Alleys have been utilized for many purposes throughout history, including housing, waste, and business. Yet, alleys are associated with unsightly and unsafe activities. Today, cities are revisiting alleys as opportunities for providing multiple benefits within increasing urbanization.Green alleys expand upon single-purpose infrastructure of alleys and convert underutilized alleyways into community assets and resources for environmental, economic and social benefits.
water recharge + reuse
design of permeable pavers
maintenance + liability of permeable pavers
design of stormwater BMPs
bulky item, garbage + recycling pick-up
water quality
landscaping/greenery
Avalon Green Alley Network Demonstration Project
>> Standardization of green alleys is context sensitive and can range from a city-developed and implemented program to a public-private partnership
>> Alleys in Los Angeles have overlapping ownership among city agencies and regulations, which creates challenges, barriers and opportunities
BENEFITS OF GREEN ALLEYS
Los Angeles’sUNTAPPED RESOURCES
WHAT IS A GREEN ALLEY?
CASE STUDY MODELS
INITIAL FINDINGS
RESEARCH DESIGN
maintenance of stormwater BMPs
East Cahuenga Alley Revitalization ProjectChicago Green Alley Program Seattle Alley Network Project
WHY GREEN ALLEYS FOR LOS ANGELES?
Chicago Seattle Los Angeles Hollywood
Bureau of Street ServicesDepartment of Water and Power
Non-city entity
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Bureau of Sanitation Bureau of Sanitation
Non-city entity
Bureau of Street Servicesasphalt
Bureau of Engineering
Bureau of Engineering
Adjacent Landowner
>> Review of academic literature + planning documents surrounding green alleys that discuss best practices, case studies, and research findings
>> Interviews with personnel from City of Los Angeles agencies
>> Case studies of four green alley models with various objectives
POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
Rachel Lindt, UCLA MURP ‘15 | Advisor: Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris | Client: The Trust for Public Land | Los Angeles Sustainability Collaborative
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Creates functional public, open and social space
Stormwater management; provision of green space; supports active transport
Beautification that promotes local economic development
>> Create a broad vision for green alleys in the City of Los Angeles
>> Foster a city-wide recognition of the benefits of green alleys through:
>> Piloting projects>> Streamlining the development and implementation process>> Piloting a program>> Developing a green alley toolkit>> Weaving into existing and future planning documents>> Establishing an official program
>> Change zoning to allow secondary building frontage onto alleys and incentive through policy
>> Name alleys to give identity and promote placemaking, investment and development
land
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900900 linear miles of alleys
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5656Approx.
Billion gallons of average
annual urban runoff enters our watersheds
Research Questions(1) What are the best practices for standardizing green alleys at the city level? (2) What is the institutional capacity for green alley implementation at the city level?
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Fall 2014Site Planning
This course was a field-based urban design class organized in a studio format with the primary purpose of developing the knowledge and skills required to analyze, propose and present urban design plans and interventions. The key deliverable for the studio was a series of strategic action plans for my team’s assigned study area, the Fashion District in Downtown Los Angeles. My team’s plan included a physical planning proposal, design actions, and institutional and policy guidelines for implementation. In this course, I applied and developed the following skills:
• Hands-on physical planning experience through individual and group assignments focusing on the following elements:
• Location and accessibility, topography, land use, street network, block size configurations and plot layouts, set-backs and build-to-lines, built form and massing, density and floor area ratio, identity and architectural character, historical heritage, landmarks, open space, pedestrian circulation, parking, street furniture, signage, etc.
• Outreach and collaboration with stakeholders, particularly the Fashion District Business Improvement District
The following figures are selected individual works from a group-based final presentation and report.
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Spring 2014Transportation and Land Use: Transit Oriented Development Studio
This studio class brought together students of different backgrounds and interests within Urban Planning to individually and collaboratively analyze, evaluate and propose solutions for transit stations in Los Angeles County. My team focused on the Metro Blue Line Grand Station, located south of the I-10 freeway in Downtown Los Angeles. In this course I applied and developed the following skills:
• Synthesis of transportation planning data and projections• Design and physical planning skills (visualizing scale, density, and the physical dimensions of different built structure and the spaces between structures, as well as transportation system needs and infrastructure requirements)• Data analysis, graphic representation and design communication
The following figures are selected individual works from the group-based final presentation and report.
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Winter 2014Introduction to Physical Planning
This course was an introductory overview of physical planning concepts, mechanisms, issues and practices. The assignments focused on developing user groups and needs, behavioral design, and cultural, social and environmental objectives. In this course, I chose and analyzed the Palms neighborhood for 10-weeks, in which I developed the following skills:
• Map-making skills (land use, zoning)• Synthesis of complicated concepts into a diagram form• Participant observation • Built form and urban design analysis• Understanding of zoning, land use and various municipal plans
The following figures are excerpts from an individually developed and designed final booklet titled [RE]Generation, which is a compiled and final version of the assignments completed throughout the quarter.
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Fall 2013Graphics + Urban Information
This course focused on developing introductory skills in drafting, Sketch-up and Photoshop by analyzing the built form of a Los Angeles-based city block. For this course, I chose Venice Boulevard between Cardiff Avenue and Watseka Avenue in Los Angeles. After producing several graphic forms of this city block, I recommended and rendered a context-specific design intervention. In this course, I developed the following skills:
• Introductory drafting skills • Rendering of the built environment in 3-D form through Sketch-Up• Developing a context specific design intervention for Venice Boulevard (High visibility mid-block, continental crosswalk with flashing pedestrian beacon and landscaped median)• Rendering of design intervention through several tools within Photoshop
The following graphics are excerpts from the final project.
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