By andrew | Published: June 26, 2009
Yesterday was the city’s internal kick off meeting for the EN TRIPS process. It was the first time all the city’s consultants – Nelson\Nygaard, Fehr & Peers, CD+A, and Turnstone Consulting, were able to meet and go over the 18 month plan for EN TRIPS.
Urban Ecology was there to explain to the city’s team our [...]
By admin | Published: June 26, 2009
What we are doing
Urban Ecology helped to organize a Community Task Force to be a strong advocate to follow, inform and add value to the MTA’s “Eastern Neighborhoods Transportation Implementation Planning Study” project. The Task Force will ensure there is a community voice and perspective as an important component of this transportation planning process.
Urban Ecology [...]
By andrew | Published: June 11, 2009
One of our projects, Elm Park, along with one of our partner organizations in Richmond, Pogo Park, is this weeks feature story of the East Bay Express. Urban Ecology catches some love to at the end of the article too. We partnered with Pogo Parks to work on two small parks in Richmond. The participatory [...]
By andrew | Published: June 4, 2009
For Urban Ecology’s May Last Fridays event, the topic was ‘What to do with all the closing car dealerships?’ We tied our discussion into a larger conversation happening on the Planetizen website. To prepare, we had printed out some overhead views of a typical suburban highway interchange, surrounded by car dealership parking lots. The amount [...]
