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Designing for unhoused people: An inclusive public space strategy Zhang, Wan

Abstract

This project explores how landscape design can support social equality in the urban scale landscape after the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic totally changed the human lifestyle. It has also exacerbated spatial injustice within the urban fabric and among different socioeconomic groups. It has brought to the fore questions, such as What is the role of landscape/public space in mitigating the spatial injustices in the city? Furthermore, how can landscape design contain social care to design public space in a neighbourhood that includes large numbers of people who are experiencing homelessness? The Oppenheimer neighborhoods in Vancouver is one of those areas where the pandemic has had a significant impact, particularly on the homeless population. As such, this project will focus on interventions within the vacant lot, streetscape, and parking lot in an attempt to shift urban design focuses to include all users of the urban realm, including the homeless. Proposed designs demonstrate how flexibility, durability and inclusiveness can improve the wellbeing of the homeless communities through a healing garden, multi-use plaza, modular streetscapes etc.

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Title
Designing for unhoused people: An inclusive public space strategy
Creator
Zhang, Wan
Date Issued
2021-05-04
Description
This project explores how landscape design can support social equality in the urban scale landscape after the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic totally changed the human lifestyle. It has also exacerbated spatial injustice within the urban fabric and among different socioeconomic groups. It has brought to the fore questions, such as What is the role of landscape/public space in mitigating the spatial injustices in the city? Furthermore, how can landscape design contain social care to design public space in a neighbourhood that includes large numbers of people who are experiencing homelessness? The Oppenheimer neighborhoods in Vancouver is one of those areas where the pandemic has had a significant impact, particularly on the homeless population. As such, this project will focus on interventions within the vacant lot, streetscape, and parking lot in an attempt to shift urban design focuses to include all users of the urban realm, including the homeless. Proposed designs demonstrate how flexibility, durability and inclusiveness can improve the wellbeing of the homeless communities through a healing garden, multi-use plaza, modular streetscapes etc.
Subject
Landscape Architecture; Landscape design; Public space design
Geographic Location
Vancouver (B.C); Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. LARC 598
Date Available
2021-05-06
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0397293
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78140
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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