Revitalizing Downtown by Institutional Intervention Graduate Thesis - Master of Urban Design Program, University of California, Berkeley
The urban design project explores the symbiotic relationship between two entities - the city and the university and recommends institutional intervention as a model for inner city revitalization. The city and the university simultaneously interact on economic, social and physical domains. The thesis project focuses on the physical interaction between the inner city neighborhoods and institutional facilities.
The city of Stockton is the site for the design exercise. The overall proposal is one for a campus for post-secondary education. The programmatic requirements of the campus have been left open ended and flexible. It could be a new university, a new satellite campus for an existing university or a community college integrated with an IT-park for emerging entrepreneurs. The design explores a combination of different strategies from land-use planning and redevelopment, to adaptive reuse and infill.
Thesis Committee: Allan Jacobs, Nesar AlSayyad, Linda Jewel ; Stockton Urban Design Studio: Donlyn Lyndon, Charles Correa
