The Blue Greenway proposes a network of parks, trails, beaches and bay access points along 13 miles of San Francisco’s Southeastern waterfront. The Cal Poly Pomona Senior Urban Design Capstone Studio, in partnership with the San Francisco Parks Alliance, envisioned an overall urban design narrative at a macro-scale, as a connective framework, and within this system, connected communities through a place-based story. The set of conceptual ideas further incorporated a series of micro-scale sites within the Blue Greenway corridor, in the City of San Francisco. The ultimate connective corridor conceptual designs form a linked urban, green infrastructure of public spaces, fusing the design of these spaces with the community and context, as focal points of this effort. Students executed advanced site research and analysis, develop a framework position and argument, envisioned design strategies responding to contextual issues and crafted physical design and planning proposals to address their initiatives.
