{"id":108500,"date":"2020-01-06T14:43:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T00:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=108500"},"modified":"2021-04-08T18:12:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T04:12:52","slug":"plans-for-future-urban-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/06\/plans-for-future-urban-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting plans for future urban living"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Standing from left: Chika Kato, Lucian Anderson, Elizabeth Travis, Henrik Weiberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Planning the living spaces of tomorrow begins with work today. Henrik Weiberg<\/strong>, a University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> junior in global environmental science<\/a> had the opportunity to participate in UrbanPlan<\/a> through a course he took in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning<\/a>. UrbanPlan is a hands on exercise where participants learn about the challenging issues, private and public sector roles, complex trade-offs and fundamental economics in play when proposing realistic land use solutions to vexing growth challenges.<\/p>\n

The project goal for Weiberg and his team of UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa students was to prepare a proposal to revitalize a depressed neighborhood in a fictional city with specific parameters and opportunities. Weiberg served as the site planner for the team, with Lucian Anderson<\/strong> as financial analyst, Chika Kato<\/strong> as city and neighborhood liaison and Elizabeth Travis<\/strong> as marketing director.<\/p>\n

The judges for the Honolulu competition included local public and private sector urban planners, architects and administrators.<\/p>\n

“Presenting to the panel was difficult because you do not know what criteria they are using to judge the winning project,” he said. “I had hoped to gain a better understanding of what the planning process would be like. I was also excited to get creative with our plan and design the city the way I thought best.” Weiberg came up with the idea of designing their city blocks around a large park in the middle of the development.<\/p>\n

Weiberg is in the Global Environmental Science and Master of Urban and Regional Planning Combined Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Pathway<\/a> (BAM<\/abbr>), a program that encourages high achieving undergraduates to complete a bachelor\u2019s and master’s degree in a shorter time frame by double-counting course work at the undergraduate tuition rate. In most cases, pathway students graduate with both degrees within five years.<\/p>\n