Participatory Cities

Pittsburgh Steps are one of the most remarkable features of the city, yet its original purpose contrasts deeply with its actual state. Not only its original function has become redundant, but lack of maintenance has put many in a critical stage of conservation. The idea of documenting his legacy and current condition has pushed historians, journalists, and artists to the streets to discover them one by one. These advocative initiatives could be an opportunity for the city if their work is taken to a level of exposure and diffusion so that it reaches a critical audience and with that, it can contribute to its better recognition and recondition. This work tries to reveal the Pittsburgh Steps from open data, understand what conditions they have, and expose what has been done documenting them and what could be done.

The goal of the project is make people aware of these low profile criminal activities and educate both criminal as well as others to take action against it.

In a continuing effort to better understand the underlying causes behind a persons affordability, this final analysis will explore food affordability.

I developed the community engagement based on the previous study on Summer Food Sites. As Woodland Hills has the most summer food sites, I chose it as the study object together with Pittsburgh city to study the access to food and the diet in each area. The community engagement will be setting up a pavilion in the neighborhood to engage with the community. In the pavilion, there will be three steps to involve the engagement: A pin-up board, a mobile pin-up installation, and a tasting dish.

The dawn of Driveless Future is coming soon. How can our urban physical and policy environment better prepare for it? How can we effectively get feedback from planning or design professionals, general public and interest groups to react to the Driveless Future and help municipalities better prepare the future, and make policy changes to better protect the general welfare of the public.