Vacant lots, though overlooked or seen as eyesores by many, represent opportunities.
Due to rapid deindustrialization and white flight, Hartford is home to some of the poorest neighborhoods in the country, and areas of North Hartford were designed as an urban renewal Promise Zone in 2008. Zhang explains the project started in 2018 as part of a class project with retired Associate Professor Kristin Schwab.
These kinds of projects face several challenges, such as zoning restrictions, potential remediation of brownfield sites, ensuring the projects address community needs and avoid gentrification, as well as how to reach consensus on the reuse programs if lands were privately owned. They organized the properties into four types, or typologies, and categorized them as Row House, Street Corner, Commercial/Industrial, and Main Street. Then reuse programs were designed for each category to create some generalized strategies.
"I continued to work in that neighborhood the summer after that project and residents still remember me and that project. It is something the residents were looking forward to."
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