view plans and a rendering of two SCAD students’ class project

8/13/2019 view plans and a rendering of two SCAD students’ class project

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Truman Rapid Transit Health TraDemocracy of Public Space

Understanding the need for awalkable, healthy, and sustainablecity, the area surroundingTruman parkway provided a greatopportunity for a linear park forthe community. This proposal notonly connect many major servicesand commercial center, but alsoties the whole city parks together.From Lake mayer in Bacon Park, toDafn Park, and all the way RiverStreet at the end, this proposalunies the whole park system ofthe city. The area provides moreopportunity that restrictions. Bus

Rapid Transit has been added tothe system not only to providelocals with a dignied publictransportation, but also activatethe silent spaces of the park. Whilethe Park connects most of the citytogether, this Rapid Transit systemconnect south side to downtownand ultimately to major citieslike Macon and Atlanta throughGrey Hound buses. This proposalsis about creating a city that hassuccessfully balanced the desireof its capable with the needsof its most vulnerable citizen.

Chatham Area Rapid Transit Services (CARTS)

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The Adam’s family represents thliving in the islands and neigsurrounding Downtown. They drinearest station, and park their car. Tthe bikes and enjoy the trail promotlifestyle to their children. It is comknow that a restaurant, rest area,

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Victory Drive Commercial complex:KrogerGas StationThe Home DepotTargetWhole foodsR t t d F t F d

Dafn Park and Savannah SandGnats Baseball Stadium

Savannah College of Art and DesignStudent housing and Facilities

Savannah Railroad Museum,

Savannah History Museum, and TheVisitor Center

Savannah Civic Center

Chatham County PublicSchool System Ofce

Truman Rapid Transit Health Trai

Most Cities like Savannah are laidout and planned to be a walkablecity. But overtime this sense of scale

changes and cities are challengedwith issues arising from thatchange. City of Savannah has notunscathed this issue, The originalplan of General Oglethorpewas centered on human beingand its capabilities. As the citygrew and technology broughtmass movers and ultimately theindividual transport, the scalechanged from human scale to amore industrial scale. While thisscale is more convenient and is

a commendable and impressiveform of transportation, it is notthe most efcient and available.

Through mapping Savannah, Ithas been identied that in order

for the city to move towardsa better, efcient, and more

sustainable future, it need tocreate a balance between humanand industrial scale. The citymust provide truly public spacesthat are geared toward thegeneral population and serveseveryone, not just the one witheconomic, or social capabilities.





Truman Rapid Transit Health Tra

Right: The design for the TrumanRapid Transit and Health trail ofthe Chatham Area Rapid Transit

Services is depicted here. Witha better public transport systemcomes improvements in activitylevel and health of the immediateneighborhoods. These circularzones indicate the radius at whichresidents, tourists, and citizenscan walk and or bike to the closestCARTS Station. The blue circle hasa one mile radius. While beingwalkable, it is considered to bea unit to represent the bikabilitydistance. The larger green circlehas a radius of half miles. This is avery easily walkable distance. Thisdistance can be walked fast and is

considered, by the designer, to beconvenient distance for walking.The third and smaller green circle

indicates a quarter mile radius. It isthere to identity the walk-ability ofthe area for parents with children,elderly and demographic thatcan or don’t prefer to walk to far.

Below: the drawings indicatethe interaction of TRTHT withexisting intersections. In orderto reduce cost and keep, thesystem intends to use as muchof the existing infrastructure asit can. The example bellow is anidea on how this can be achieved.





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Victory Drive Commercial complex:KrogerGas StationThe Home DepotTargetWhole foodsR t t d F t F d

Daf fin Park and Savannah SandGnats Baseball Stadium

Savannah College of Art and DesignStudent housing and Facilities

Savannah Railroad Museum,

Savannah History Museum, and TheVisitor Center

Savannah Civic Center

Chatham County PublicSchool System Of fice

Truman Rapid Transit Health Tra

The focus of the Truman Linear Parkand RBT Plan is to create a hallwaylike connection from the South

Side to downtown that allows formore thatn a direct communte. Itis important to celebrate what isbeing passed and the communityin between dowtown and oneshome. This plan grants thatallowing for growth economicallyby small business around thepark and increasing healthy andsafe pedestrian traf fic. What ismore this new plan is projectedto increase Savannah’s walkability

by nearly double. Not onlydoes the park make Savannah’scitizens healthy but the city itself

by reducing automotive traveland congestion, increasing bikeuse with permeabel paving.The park bestows upon the citymore foilage . At the Henry andAnderson hub a great deal canhappen. Not only can a personpark their car catch the CAT or geton the new RBT they can accessthe bike share or enjoy the parkand small rentable stands thatthis once empty lot wil provide.


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Plan of the Anderson and Henry Hub which intersect Harry ruman Parkway



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view plans and a rendering of two SCAD students’ class project