This document outlines coursework completed by a student in their Master of Community Planning program, including a rendered intersection design, a poster presentation on trails, several GIS projects analyzing vacant homes and crime statistics to identify sites for community gardens, slope and vegetation analysis for site planning, and a thesis on developing a neighborhood-scale carbon calculator with various maps.

1. Coursework Master of Community Planning

2. Comp. Planning Studio Rendered Intersection Design Spring 2008

3. Comp. Planning Studio Poster Presentation Trails: Introduction Original at 30” x 40” Spring 2008

4. GIS-1 Georeferenced vacant houses & crime statistics Presented relationships of more-serious and less-serious crimes against both people and property, overlaid on house vacancies

5. GIS-2 Study to find sites for community gardens City-owned properties given priority

6. GIS-2 “First Cut” based on whether sites had contiguous area of at least 6,000 square feet Further elimination of heavily-wooded sites

7. GIS-2 Slope analysis

8. GIS-2 Analysis of slope direction suitability for plants

9. GIS-2 Final site selection for community garden

10. Site Planning Selected slides prepared for final presentation Analysis of Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati

11. Site Planning Topography, impervious area and character photos

12. Site Planning Topography, impervious area and character photos

13. Site Planning Slope analysis

14. Site Planning Analysis showing correspond-ence of steep slopes and heavy vegetation

15. Thesis Rendered Intersection Design

16. Thesis Map of study areas for Master’s thesis “Toward a Neighbor-hood-scale Carbon Calculator”

17. Thesis Example map of Clifton neighbor-hood Shows character-istics salient to the thesis research

18. Thesis Map sequence illustrating problem of different mapping areas for different character-istics

19. Thesis Poster based on thesis research featured at 2009 American Planning Association National Conference Original is 36” x 90”