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LightScape Garden Supports STEAM Learning and Safety in Silver Spring

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LightScape Garden Supports STEAM Learning and Safety in Silver Spring

NCSG faculty Ronit Eisenbach has been working with the Quebec Terrace/Carroll Avenue community in Silver Spring for several years, on LightScape Garden, a project that aims to increase public safety through lighting, provide a place for people to gather and play and support the informal STEAM and literacy after school programs provided by the YMCA and Arts on the Block in the adjacent community center.
 
Funding for the project was provided by NCSG, EFC and a grant from Community Forklift.
More information can be found at arch.umd.edu.
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Nick FinioOct 26No Comments

Creative Placemaking Bag Lunch

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Creative Placemaking Bag Lunch

UMD School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and NCSG Host Two Featured Artists for a Gallery Talk

Monday, October 29, 2018. 12:00 – 2:00 pm in the Kibel Gallery. Cookies and beverages will be provided.

The University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and the National Center for Smart Growth host featured creative placemaking artists Cassie Meador of Dance Exchange in Maryland and Carlton Turner of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production in Mississippi. The gallery talk will be led by Adam Erickson of ArtPlace.
More information can be found at arch.umd.edu.
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Nick FinioOct 23No Comments

Why won’t the “Zombie” Potomac Bridge proposal die?

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Why won’t the “Zombie” Potomac Bridge proposal die?

An article in Greater Greater Washington explores the myriad reasons not to build a bridge connecting Montgomery County and Loudoun County. Nick Finio, an NCSG Faculty Research Assistant, and Alex Baca, Engagement Director at Coalition for Smarter Growth, co-wrote this article. With Loudoun County’s population ballooning over the past two decades, the County Board of Supervisors recently voted to endorse two sites for a potential bridge. Measures like this have been proposed time and again in the region, but, researchers argue that more highways will not alleviate traffic. Instead, Finio and Baca recommend Loudoun  focus on growth that embrace it’s new public transit options via the Silver Line.

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Nick FinioOct 19No Comments