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MAKE A BASE MAP Tape the aerial photo onto the inside of a sunny window. Tape tracing paper over it. Using a black felt tip marker, trace streets, buildings, and trees. Remove from window. Add labels for street names and north arrow. Make copies or blueprints. |
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MAPPING THE NEIGHBORHOOD WALK Have each person or team add their worksheet answers, survey notes, journal notes, sketches and pictures to separate base maps. For example, have the Land Use Survey team add their notes to a base map and label it: "Existing Land Use". Display all maps on a wall. Have each team present their findings using their map as a visual reference. |
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NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN GAME This game is a fun way to comunicate big and cool ideas for the neighborhood study area as you create a vision for the neighborhood. Use a blank base map as the game board (can be enlarged on a copier). Make colored game pieces (using construction paper, cardboard, or foam core board). Use the game pieces to show where you would like to see houses, apartments, playground or park, school, stores. Before you begin the Game, talk about these questions:
Q1: What will be the best streets to live on? Take turns placing the game pieces on the Game board to create a vision for the neighborhood. As you do this, talk about why you placed the game pieces where you did. Take a picture after each person is done. After everyone has had a turn, work together to place the game pieces on the Game board. Try to find a solution that everyone is happy with. This is called "consensus building".
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PAINT A MURAL Paint a mural of the neighborhood based upon upon what you saw on the neighborhood walk. Work as a group or individually. Large sheets of white butcher paper and tempura paints work best.
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BUILD A MODEL NEIGHBORHOOD The "Model Cities" neighborhood program of the 1960s was intended to rehabilitate an existing neighborhood to serve as an example and catalyst for improvement of other neighborhoods. Build a 3 dimensional model of the neighborhood study area based upon what you saw on the neighborhood walk. Work as a group or individually.
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MAKE A PLAN Working in teams, draw a conceptual plan for the neighborhood. Use all of the information gathered during the Neighborhood Walk, and the Neighborhood Design Game. This is where all of your efforts will come together in a plan to show how the neighborhood can be developed. Draw your big and cool ideas onto the base maps you already made. Before drawing, talk about:
Q1: What land uses does the neighborhood need?
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