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Balancing Transportation and the Public Realm : Elevated Skytrain Integration and the Campus Experience Bailey, Sean; Dara, Nidah; Johnson, Emily; Cok, Jose Wong

Abstract

The University of British Columbia (UBC) has been exploring the possibility of bringing a SkyTrain extension to the Point Grey Campus. As part of the initial analysis, UBC Campus and Community Planning (C+CP) department asked the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) to examine options for and evaluate approaches to accomodating an elevated SkyTrain on the Campus. This report presents the findings of the project performed by a group of second-year Masters of Community and Regional Planning (MCRP) students as part of SCARP's Planning Studio. The report identifies station placement and alignment options and design strategies aimed at preserving or enhancing the public realm surrounding the stations and guideways. A values-based evaluation framework was developed and used to highlight challenges and possibilities associated with these options. Design strategies were developed to suggest key features for mitigating negative SkyTrain impacts and help achieve human centred design. The findings section applies the design strategies to two alignment options and evaluates their impact on the Campus experience. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”

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Title	Balancing Transportation and the Public Realm : Elevated Skytrain Integration and the Campus Experience
Creator	Bailey, Sean; Dara, Nidah; Johnson, Emily; Cok, Jose Wong
Contributor	University of British Columbia. Sustainability Office
Date Issued	2019-04-05
Description	The University of British Columbia (UBC) has been exploring the possibility of bringing a SkyTrain extension to the Point Grey Campus. As part of the initial analysis, UBC Campus and Community Planning (C+CP) department asked the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) to examine options for and evaluate approaches to accomodating an elevated SkyTrain on the Campus. This report presents the findings of the project performed by a group of second-year Masters of Community and Regional Planning (MCRP) students as part of SCARP's Planning Studio. The report identifies station placement and alignment options and design strategies aimed at preserving or enhancing the public realm surrounding the stations and guideways. A values-based evaluation framework was developed and used to highlight challenges and possibilities associated with these options. Design strategies were developed to suggest key features for mitigating negative SkyTrain impacts and help achieve human centred design. The findings section applies the design strategies to two alignment options and evaluates their impact on the Campus experience. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Subject	Transportation; Community; Land
Genre	Presentation; Report
Type	Text
Language	eng
Series	UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Student Report; University of British Columbia. PLAN 526
Date Available	2019-12-03
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0386700
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/72514
Affiliation	Applied Science, Faculty of; Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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Bailey_S_et_al_PLAN_526_Balancing_transportation_final_report.pdf -- 14.64MB

Bailey_S_et_al_PLAN_526_Balancing_transportation_presentation.pdf -- 21.96MB

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