Grand Challenges and Research | Urban Studies & Planning

Colonia Lazaro Cardenas

Area of Concentration: US-Mexico Border Planning

Associated Grand Challenges

• Transborder City-Region Sustainability: Built Environment, Toxicants and Environmental Health

Mentor

• Carlos Graizbord

PRODUCTS:
1) Project for a 20 to 25 unit complex including housing and infrastructure. The project would include an observation trip, design needs interviews with users, analysis of the site including a site analysis, preliminary project (schematic design,)  design guidelines and final project.
2) Catalogs from parallel research: Examine catalogs of existing low income housing projects around the world as well as appropriate infrastructure and services such as trash recycling etc.  The catalogs will be presented as separate documents.