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Old Posted Jun 14, 2012, 5:23 PM
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Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012, 8:55am PDT - Last Modified: Thursday, June 14, 2012, 9:48am PDT
UO students hatch plans for Gateway ecodistrict
By Christina Williams
Sustainable Business Oregon

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Five teams of students from the University of Oregon last week presented the results of a semester's worth of work to the team behind the Gateway ecodistrict effort, showing of concepts for a greener, more connected neighborhood.

Gateway, located in east Portland near the intersection of Interstate 84 and I-205, is one of five ecodistrict neighborhoods being nurtured by the Portland Sustainability Institute's pilot ecodistrict project. Ecodistricts are a neighborhoods that develops a comprehensive management strategy for attributes such as energy, water, waste, recycling, green infrastructure and mobility.

Nico Larco, associate professor of architecture at the University of Oregon, worked with the institute to develop an opportunity for an interdisciplinary team of students to look at ecodistricts from an urban design perspective.

The project became the topic of a studio class taught by Larco and Kaarin Knudson, a project manager with Eugene-based Rowell Brokaw Architects and an adjunct professor at UO. The class of 17 split into five student teams with expertise including architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning.

Students started the semester meeting with the ecodistrict's steering committee and experts on the area from SERA Architects and the Portland Development Commission.

"We heard a whole lot of 'We don't want to be the Pearl,'" Larco said.
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