Where the Sidewalk Ends

The Road To Adaptive Urban Governance

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam individual academic work 2022

This tool kit of six design interventions will add 2.5km2 of public open space, providing amenities to dense urban areas. The interventions in the voids create subtle ways for people to continue to practice tradition, create identity, and appreciation for the environment, moving away from the French colonial ideology of a city and discovering the HCMC that celebrates the present and the future.

By addressing the most significant spatial needs of each site, opportunities for intervention are found. The spaces become activated by the public’s temporal use, which enhances programming and social needs.

1968 Police Riot

relationship of open space and violence

Grant Park, Chicago, IL individual academic work 2018

The alarming historical moment in August 1968 is illustrated where the entire city was shut down due to the protest in the streets, on the Illinois Central Railroad train tracks and in Grant Park. Ten thousand protestors intended to peacefully protest the Democratic National Convention and Vietnam War by marching through the grounds, but were forcefully removed with tear gas, mace, and violent attacks by the Chicago Police.