{"id":6012,"date":"2017-09-20T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/urp\/?p=6012"},"modified":"2020-05-24T12:51:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T16:51:19","slug":"building-a-box-city-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/urp\/building-a-box-city-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a ‘Box City’ Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Building a ‘Box City’ Neighborhood<\/em><\/h1>
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Dr. Laura Dedenbach’s class in Preview of Urban and Regional Planning (URP 4000) led children in the Porters Community to design their ideal neighborhood.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Students in URP 4000 facilitate the Box City activity with children in the Porters neighborhood. Photo by the Gainesville Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Have you ever wanted to design your ideal neighborhood? Put a park here, place a retail store there. Well, the children in Gainesville\u2019s Porters neighborhood got that chance thanks to Dr. Laura Dedenbach\u2019s undergraduate class in Preview to Urban and Regional Planning (URP 4000). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The activity was held at the Porters Community Center in the Porters neighborhood between the UF campus and downtown Gainesville. With the help of the URP class, the children in the Center’s afterschool program built a 1\/8\u201d scale cardboard box version of how they wanted their neighborhood to look. This process taught them city planning concepts such as neighborhoods and citizenship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gainesville Sun featured the event with an article<\/a> and video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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