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Selected Works 2012-2016

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SOUTHEAST PHILADELPHIA CPLN600 Planning Workshop Group of Six

Southeast Philadelphia is currently struggling neighborhood featuring 36% foreign born population – mostly Asian immigrants and refugees. The neighborhood lacks its own cohesive identity, and is bounded by several established communities with strong identities and centered a failing commercial corridor. It is suffering from low home value and extremely low tree coverage. I am in charge of most of the mapping tasks.

Regional Context

Distribution of Ethnic Groups

Comparison of Zoning and Land Use Tree Cover Deficiency

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ABOVE: This series of hand-drawn phasing plan is a collaboration of

the group. Key developments in each phase are highlighted.

Crime Incidents 2012-2014

Traffic accidents

Bus Routes


Former BOK School Repurpose Former BOK School Repurpose

Traffic Calming on Oregon Street

Below : Site maps that I did for existing conditions. I am also in charge of

developing one of the alternatives, and on the right are the concept map,

some Photoshop renderings and a street section that I did.

SOUTHEAST PHILADELPHIA CPLN600 Planning Workshop

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RESTAURANT HEALTH INSPECTION PRODICTION IN CHICAGO CPLN 590 Applications of Urban Spatial Analysis Group of Two

ABOVE: The spatial analysis course challenged us with predictive

modeling using regression on the outcome of restaurant health inspect,

and design an interface to make it communicate-able, in hope to allocate

food inspect resources more efficiently. When you zoom out to city scale, it

looks as the image on the right. If zoomed in to a particular area, like

Chinatown above, the predicted outcomes are shown as faces indicating its

level of predicted food safety.

Predicted Probability of restaurants failing health Inspect

My concentration in graduate planning study in PennDesign is land use and environmental planning, the first semester was less about design but more about fundamental theories and spatial analysis techniques.

1. Proximity to main road 2. Not visible from main road 3. Larger than 300 Hectares

SITE SUITABILITY FOR WIND TURBINE NEAR YOSEMITE CPLN 632 Modeling Geographic Space Individual class assignment

1. Proximity to main road

2. Not visible from main road

3. Area larger than 300 Hectares

Final Site Choice

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BONEYARD VISTA – MIDTOWN REVITALIZATION PLAN UP426 Urban Design and Planning Group of Three

Midtown Champaign, situated between the city’s downtown and the University of Illinois campus, is an area in search of a vibrant and complete identity. A proposed neighborhood core – the Boneyard Vista – at the northern end of the Boneyard Creek has the potential to provide that unique identity for Midtown. The project is based on a mix of conceptual urban design, as well as lynchian analysis of the neighborhood. The result is a well-defined neighborhood that is both self-sufficient, as well as a stronger link in the regional context. In addition to a portion of text, I was responsible for the site analysis, phasing of improvements and cross section streetscape design.

RIGHT: The diagram shows a lynchian analysis of the site that

highlights major opportunities and constrains of tis future

development.

BOTTOM: This is a rendering of the North Elevation view of

University Ave. between First & Second St.


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ABOVE: An axonometric plan with key features

defined. Model developed by three of us, page

manipulated by me.


BONEYARD VISTA – MIDTOWN REVITALIZATION PLAN UP426 Urban Design and Planning

This is a mid-block streetscape cut section view of

one of the major street that we propose to change

from 4 lanes to 2 lanes with wider sidewalks,

adding bike lanes and back-in diagonal parking,

as well as mixed use buildings on both sides. I

completed this image entirely on my own.

BELOW: University Avenue Street Section

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COUNTY PLAZA MULTI-MODAL TRANSIT CENTER DESIGN UP494 Active Transportation Workshop Group of Five

LEFT: Site Overview with traffic count

data, site orientation information and

plan rendering

NEXT PAGE: This poster was presented to and critiqued by Urbana Planning Commission and the

Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District Committee. I was responsible for the SketchUp modeling and

rendering.


The project of a downtown mixed-use transit facility is initiated by the inter-governmental agreement between the City of Urbana and the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District. I took a principal design role in this project, undertaking most of the modeling and visualization works.

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SPATIAL HOTSPOTS FOR URBAN LEAD AND GARDENING ACTIVISM Undergraduate Research Supervisor: Professor Bethany Cutts Role: ArcGIS spatial analysis and map generation; Poster design.


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Danqi (Silvia) Fang

Candidate for Master of City Planning 2017

University of Pennsylvania

Email: [email protected]

Address: 3945 Chestnut St, Apt502. Philadelphia, PA19104

Tel: (217) 419-5227

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