I'm a graduating senior at San Francisco State University
(SFSU, http://design.sfsu.edu/) working on my final research project.

The study in short consists of investigating the relationship between education, public space, and blight in San Francisco.

The development aspect of the project aims at designing a viable strategy aimed at reducing the costs to the city, increasing good design in public, and encouraging peoples through civic cooperation participation and awareness.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Lets Get Involved, Longterm!



Throughout my survey design the main objective was to find out if people are involved with the community. As you can see in this snapshot of the response received from SFSU students, nearly 70% said admitted not being active in the community. The students I mentor at Thurgood Marshall High School typically respond with similar proportions. I hypothesize that educating students about a heightened sense of community, that is belonging to, participating in, and the cultivating of will result in the decline of Blight. Possible in a snowball effect whereas solutions today are are more of the snail effect.

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