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Founded in the 1830’s, the village of Weeksville (currently part of Crown Heights/Brownsville, Brooklyn) was one of the first independent, free black communities in the country.

The Green Weeksville stewardship program enabled dozens of local youth to explore their heritage through gardening, art and environmental education.

For their final project, participants collected and painted plastic bottles and created a sculpture inspired by the bottle trees of the African-American gardens of the South.

GREEN WEEKSVILLE COMMUNITY GARDENCrown Heights, Brooklyn, NYSummer 2015Role: Program Coordinator/Educator

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Asparagus densiflorus Foxtail fern

Camellia sasanqua Camellias

Nicotiana sylvestris Tobacco

Oenothera Evening-Primrose

Clematis Terniflora Sweet Autumn Clematis

Ipomoea purpurea Morning Glory

Vitis coignetiae Golryvine Grape

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Parthenocisus Quincifolia Virginia creeper

Matteuccia struthiopteris Ostrich Fern

Foeniculum vulgare Fennel

Lavandula angustifolia Lavender

Liriope Spicada Creeping Lilyturf

Salvia elegans Pineapple Sage

Stachys byzantina Lamb Ears

Yucca filamentosa Adams Needle

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Echinacewa purpurea Purple coneflower

Iris cristata Dwarf crested iris

Rudbeckia hirta Black-eyed Susan

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Hibiscus syriacus Rose of Sharon

Nandina domestica Heavenly Bamboo

Opuntia compressa Prickly Pear

Rhus aromatica Fragrant sumac

Taxus baccata 'Aurea' English Yew

vaccinium corymbosum highbush blueberry

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Cornus florida Dogwood

Ginkgo biloba Ginkgo

Lagerstroemia indica Crapemyrtyle

Magnolia stellata Star magnolia

Prunus persica Peach

Pyrus calleriana Callery Pear

Baruch Tauber - Design - Planning - Stewardship 2011 - 2015

A proposal for a new kind of community park in Brownsville, including: - adventure playground- community center and patio- community food garden- memorial art garden featuring African-American sculpture

This multi-functional community space will provide opportunities for Brownsville residents to connect with their heritage and build community. The design and program are intended to evoke the spirit of Brownsville’s stoop culture and Weeksville’s art gardens of the past.

WEEKSVILLE PARK & MEMORIAL GARDENBrownsville, Brooklyn, NY FALL 2015Studio Design Project

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A plan to transform 3.5 miles stretch of abandoned railway into landscaped walking and biking paths,

play areas, and cultural programming

A community-led e�ort to create linear park in Central Queens that will link to and enhance Forest Park.

Located within a 20 minute walk for over 250,000 Queens residents; within a 5 minute walk of 12

schools.

Includes 7 acres of parkland in Forest Park and 2 little league �elds.

What is the QueensWay? In Partnership with The Trust for Public Land

Four Ways You Can Help the QueensWayDecember 2013

1. Help Build Community Support

○ Write letters supporting the QueensWay to every one of your local elected officials(Congressperson, State Senator and Assemblyperson, City Council member) plus your localCommunity Board Chairperson. Click here for a sample letter and list of elected officials

○ If you live in Queens Community Boards 5, 6, 9 and 10 Attend a Community Board Meetingand express your support for the QueensWay.

2. Express your Support on Social Media and News Blogs

○ Join the QueensWay Online Forum, go to thequeenswayplan.mindmixer.com to share youideas for the QueensWay plan relating to your neighborhood, learn about similar projects, andjoin conversations regarding safety, access, and environment.

○ Follow us on Facebook ( facebook.com/thequeensway ) and Twitter(twitter.com/thequeensway )

○ Write a response to at least one QueensWay related news article every week. First, go togoogle.com/alerts, enter “queensway” into the Search Query box, select “News” in the secondbox and related stories will be delivered to your email.

3. Help build the QueensWay Network

○ Help recruit participants for the March preliminary design workshops. Reach out to at leastfive friends and family and tell them about the Queensway, you can copy and paste thefollowing message:

Dear [Friend]

There is an exciting new project in Central Queens called the QueensWay, a plan to build a greenway which

would add 50 acres of beautiful space for recreation and cultural programming. You can learn about it on

thequeensway.org, and by signing up for the Friends of the QueensWay (FQW) mailing list, through which

you will be notified of community events and planning workshops.

You can also join me and thousands of Queens residents in supporting of QueensWay by signing the

petition, and liking the FQW facebook page.

4. Donate● Your tax-deductible gift supports our community outreach and engagement efforts, which

are crucial to the success of the current feasibility and planning stage. To donate visitioby.org/project/queensway-next-step. Even a small gift will help us reach our interim goal ofraising $5000 by early in the new year.


As part of the QueensWay feasibility study led by the Trust for Public Land, WXY Urban Design and dland Studio Landscape Architecture, organizers from Friends of the QueensWay and Hester St Collaborative led an multi-faceted, targeted outreach campaign to build grassroots support among the dozens of communities and ethnic groups in the area.

Outreach activities included guided tours, cleanups, forming alliances with local businesses and religious groups, and facilitating community workshops in schools, community centers and at public events.

QUEENSWAYMay 2013 - June 2014Central Queens, NYRole: Outreach Coordinator

QueensWay ToursMap by WXY Architecture & Urban Design. Renderings by dland Studio Landscape Architecture. Photos by Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao

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An idea for the renovation of Jaimito’s Place (102 and Lex. Ave) soon to be “Borinquneers Memorial Plaza”. Presented November 11, 2015

An idea for the renovation of Jaimito’s Place (102 and Lex. Ave) soon to be “Borinquneers Memorial Plaza”. Presented November 11, 2015


A community-initiated proposal to refurbish an abandoned lot-turned-informal community space.

Part of a larger effort by the Puerto Rican (Borinquen) Harlem community to memorialize the 65th Infantry Regiment, AKA the Borinqueneers; the only Hispanic-segregated, active duty military unity in the armed forces. The unit was recently awarded a Congressional Gold Medal for their service.

BORINQUENEER PLAZA FALL 2015 - Ongoing (Schematic Phase)E. Harlem, NYCRole: Designer

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Baruch TauberMarch 19 2015

POTENTIAL PARTNERS

CHALLENGESWho Is At The Table?

What Gets In The Way?

• Powerholders• The “Haves”• Money• The “System”

• Residents and Workers• The “Have Nots”• Personal and Communal Values• The “People”

• Racism • Paternalism• Resistance to power redistribution • Lack of trust in legitimacy

or feasibility of community’s judgment

• Tokenist advisory boards• Trying to please everyone• Lip service• Government and Corporate

(for-profit and non-for-profit) bureaucracy, private interests

• Weak social infrastructure• Inadequate knowledge base• Lack of organizing skills• Distrust of powerholders• Conflicting interests• Lack of leadership

- DISCOVER EXISTING CALUMET STEWARDSHIP RELATIONSHIPS

- PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTERACTION, NEW DISCOVERIES

- LEARN HOW RESTORING ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS CAN UNIFY FRACTURED SOCIAL FABRIC

PRINCIPLES

The Chicago STEW-MAP project gathers information about groups and organizations that do unpaid environmental stewardship work in the four-state Chicago Wilderness region.

0 1 2 3 4.5Miles1:100,000

EDUCATION

RELIGIOUS

SOCIAL SERVICES

ENVIRONMENTAL

HEALTH

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND SERVICES

Map depicting regional environmental groups working in the Calumet area

1 2 4 6 81:250:00 Miles

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND SERVICES: ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

Data Sources: Data Sources: Esri Business Analyst / 2008-2012 ACS

2014 Population per Square Mile (Esri)

2953 - 5355

0 - 2953 5355 - 9151

9151 - 14086

14086 - 32913

CITIZEN

POW

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- PARTICIPATIO

NTO

KENISM

Arnstein’s Ladder of Engagement

delegated power

partnership

placation

consultation

informing

therapy

manipulation

citizen control

Organizations partnered with Millenium Reserve for Economic Development

Figures based on 2014 Millenium Reserve Progress Report

Colleges and Universites within Calumet ProximityFigures based on Individual College Financial Reports

HWY - TRUCK ROUTE

Violent Crimes

US DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION

0 1 2 3 4.5Miles1:100,000

Rail lines Streets

TYPES OF CRIME AND FREQUENCY

Property Crimes

Quality of life Crimes

Movement Systems

Organizations partnered with Millenium Reserve for Economic Development

Figures based on 2014 Millenium Reserve Progress Report

Colleges and Universites within Calumet ProximityFigures based on Individual College Financial Reports

HWY - TRUCK ROUTE

Violent Crimes

US DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION

0 1 2 3 4.5Miles1:100,000

Rail lines Streets

TYPES OF CRIME AND FREQUENCY

Property Crimes

Quality of life Crimes

Movement Systems

ENGAGING CALUMET/DESIGNING WITH PEOPLEAN ANALYSIS OF STEWARDSHIP POTENTIAL IN CALUMET

CHILD DAY CARE SERVICES

JOB TRAINING

PLANNING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Esri Business Online Analysis - 2008 -2013 American Community Survey

0 1 2 3 4.5Miles1:100,000

1970 Census bureau - Social Explorer 1:600,0000 2 4 6 81

Miles 2010 Census bureau - Social Explorer 1:600,0000 2 4 6 81

Miles

POPULATION RACE

POPULATION BY RACE - 2010

White

Black

Asian

Two or morw

Other

POPULATION RACE

POPULATION BY RACE - 1970

White

Black

Other

MODELS

In 1969, Sherry Arnstein published “A Ladder of Citizen Participation”, categorizing eight forms of community participation, from engineering support to legitimate agency. According to Arnstein, the vast majority of development project fall under the fifth rung (“Placation”) or lower, where “citizens may indeed hear and be heard. But under these conditions they lack the power to insure that their views will be heeded.”

(1) Manipulation

“educating” residents or engineering their support - the distortion of participation into a public relations vehicle by powerholders

(2) Therapy

citizens are engaged in extensive activity, but the focus of it is on curing them of their “pathology” - an attempt to adjust values and attitudes of a particular group to those of the larger society. A diversion from dealing with matters of importance

(3) Informing

informing locals can be the most important first step toward legitimate participation - unfortunately this process can often be a one-way flow of information - providing information at a late stage in planning gives little opportunity to influence the program designed “for their benefit.” - providing superficial information, discouraging questions, or giving irrelevant answers

(4) Consultation

when not combined with other modes of participation, consulting local opinion offers no assurance that citizen concerns and ideas will be taken into account - - perceiving people as statistical abstractions (x amount showed up to our meetings!) - all the community has achieved is that they have “participated in participation” - attitude surveys, neighborhood meetings, and public hearings are often no more than a window-dressing ritual - attitude surveys are not very valid indicators of community opinion when used without other input - often participants are unaware as to what other options they have

(5) Placation

residents begin to take on some degree of influence though tokenism is still apparent - placing a few “worthy” poor on boards of Community Action Agencies or on public bodies not accountable to a constituency and essentially powerless if the traditional power elite hold the majority of seats - planning committees will often field community input ad infinitum (or ad nauseum) but retain for powerholders the right to judge the legitimacy or feasibility of the advice given

(6) Partnership

in some cases, power is in fact redistributed through negotiation between citizens and powerholders and citizens have some genuine bargaining influence over the outcome of the plan - joint policy boards, planning committees and mechanisms for resolving impasses are formed - after ground rules have been established through some form of give-and-take, they are not subject to unilateral change - this happen most effectively when there is an organized power-base in the community and when the group has the resources to hire its own technicians, lawyers, and community organizers.

(7) Delegated Power

a citizen group achieving dominant decision-making authority over a particular plan or program - policy boards on which citizens have a clear majority of seats and genuine specified powers

(8) Citizen Control

demanding a degree of power control which guarantees that residents can be in full charge of policy and managerial aspects of a program or an institution and be able to negotiate the conditions under which “outsiders” may change them - e.g. a neighborhood corporation with no intermediaries between it and the source of funds - among the arguments against community control are: it supports separatism; it creates balkanization of public services; it is more costly and less efficient

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12' 32' 30'

PORCH TYPOLOGY

PORCH TYPOLOGY PARTS

PORCH TYPOLOGY SECTION

8’W X 34’L CLEAR, UV RESISTANT

PLEXIGLASS

8’W X 12’’L TINTED PLEXIGLASS

8’W X 34’L CLEAR, UV RESISTANT

PLEXIGLASS


For decades, the residents of Altgeld Gardens in South Chicago have been surrounded by a “toxic doughnut” of factories and waste-treatment plants emitting airborne pollutants. We proposed a modular shelter connecting residences with the local grocery and health center, as well as provide opportunities for socializing and recreation within the protected public space.

CALUMET MASTER PLAN; ALTGELD INTERVENTION

Spring 2015South Chicago, IllinoisRole: Design Studio II ProjectCo-author: Jessica Pimentel

In creating a new master plan to revitalize the post-industrial region of Calumet, students from multiple design disciplines at City College (CCNY), Harvard, and Illinois Institute of Technology collaborated to conduct research relating to social, environmental, economic, and infrastructure issues. Layers of research collected by CCNY was analyzed and rendered collaboratively on ArcGIS.

CALUMET MASTER PLAN; REGIONAL ANALYSIS

Spring 2015 Calumet Region, Illinois/IndianaRole: Design Studio II Research ProjectCo-author: Jessica Pimentel


This half-acre rooftop garden proposal will provide opportunities for agriculture, recreation, and mental/spiritual respite for residents of an affordable/mixed housing project in Newark

60 NEVADA ST. ROOF GARDEN

Fall 2015 Newark, NJ.Role: Design Studio III Project

PAGE 8/12MARGARET CORBIN CIRCLE planting plan

Virginia Creeper

Pink Muhly Grass

Ninebark

Ginkgo

American Beech

American Hornbeam

JuneberJuneberry



RESIDENTIALSITE ANALYSIS

Fall 2014 Site Technology Coursework

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Site-Scape Solutions

Prepared December 2, 2014 by:

Baruch Tauber - MLA Landscape Tech I - Fall 2014

Contour CUT FILL

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Water Flow Centerline


GRADING PLANS

Fall 2014 Site Technology Coursework

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Pier 26 Road Section

15’


SECTION DRAWINGS2014-2015DESIGN STUDIO WORK

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Interior Design - Lighting2012-2014SHAKUFF LIGHTING AND DECORRole: Project Designer


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