Project #7

Class: CYPLAN C241 Research Methods in Environmental Design

Topic: Duboce Slow Triangle - Parking Configurations on Traffic Calming and the Public Realm

Our teams’ research is focused on: street traffic and people’s movement, parking orientation and the effects on the public realm and characteristics of street side gathering spaces. We would like to disclose our positionality, being that almost 90% of the team is from out of the county. After our two presentations with the DTNA community, we received feedback that because we are not from the community we cannot understand the complexities our recommendations would trigger to the local residents. This is to say, our recommendations are to start a conversation and show that these questions and slow vision is worth studying more. In closing we must recognize our own subjectivity, biases, and privilege, as we are critiquing systems that encompass the subjects we are studying.