Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity
Title
Green Infrastructure for Framingham, Massachusetts: Greenway Planning and Cultural Landscape Design
Publication Date
Spring 2015
Abstract
The senior undergraduate, Bachelors of Landscape Architecture studio at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst developed a town-wide greenway plan for the Town of Framingham’s Department of Community and Economic Development. This conceptual plan connects the town’s natural, cultural, and recreational resources through a network of pedestrian and bike trails. This plan also seeks to connect the diverse neighborhoods within the Town to these resources and provide alternative means of local residents to access jobs, schools, and retail centers. The greenway plan builds on Framingham’s Open Space and Recreation Plan (2013), which identified the need for a regional greenway system to link the town to the many local and regional recreational, cultural, ecological, and economic resources.
This capstone planning and design studio began with an analysis and assessment of the Town of Framingham’s natural, recreational, cultural, and transportation/land use resources. Teams of students developed alternative greenway plans for the town and region, respectively. These plans were synthesized halfway through the class to produce the composite greenway plan shown in this report. For the second half of the class, individual students developed neighborhood and site specific greenway and park designs for key linkages within the greenway network in the rural northeast section of Framingham, industrial village of Saxonville, historic Framingham Center, the Tech Park, and downtown Framingham. These detailed designs form the body of this report.
Included in
Environmental Design Commons, Landscape Architecture Commons, Urban, Community and Regional Planning Commons
Comments
University of Massachusetts- Amherst
Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
Spring, 2015
LandArch 494LI: Senior Capstone Studio
Green Infrastructure for Framingham, Massachusetts:
Greenway Planning and Cultural Landscape Design
Instructors:
Robert L. Ryan
315 Hills North, 545-6633, rlryan@larp.umass.edu
Peter Flinker, Dodson & Flinker
Teaching Assistant: Alyssandra Black