Now If They Can Only Redesign Wurster

Posted by: Avinash on Friday, April 6th, 2007

In our annual “Berkeley Making the World Prettier” awards, some grad students have shot for the stars.

A development proposal drafted by the University of California Berkeley team to redevelop a 16.5-acre block in Los Angeles has been selected as the winning scheme in the fifth annual ULI (Urban Land Institute) Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. The team’s entry was selected over plans submitted by other competition finalist teams from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and two teams from Harvard University.

The graduate student teams, competing in a student ideas competition, were charged with forming a quasi-public agency to redevelop the East First Street corridor from Alameda to Mariachi Plaza, taking into consideration connections to neighborhoods, to a revitalized Los Angeles River proposed in the newly-issued master plan, to the new Gold Line Eastside Extension, and the development of the construction staging sites surrounding Mariachi Plaza after the MTA completes the subway entrance.

I guess no one let them in on a dirty big secret of the Inferno in SoCal: No one rides the MTA in L.A. At least, no one we know. Irrelevant yet technically sound; the American public salutes you, Berkeley grad students!

UC Berkeley Team Wins 2007 ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition [Berkeley CED]



Topics: UC Berkeley

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