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Transforming older campuses into healthy, walkable green environments with high-impact programming requires investments in infrastructure, circulation, and buildings? All while addressing legacy assets? Is a major challenge for institutions today. The University of Maryland College Park's (UMD) campus plan sets a visionary yet achievable roadmap for key institutional goals, enabling the evolution of a suburban flagship campus into a vibrant, urban, multi-modal, and carbon-neutral innovation center. This session will offer practical strategies for planners to align diverse interests and stakeholders from across the campus community, clear decision-making hurdles, and balance long-range strategic goals with near-term needs.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how strengthening campus adjacencies and developing compact learning centers that foster collaboration and innovation can support academic effectiveness.
2. Explain how placemaking and environmental analyses can build support for addressing climate impacts and campus wellness with new open space projects.
3. Identify multi-modal improvements that leverage mass transit to increase accessibility and improve campus safety.
4. Describe a step-by-step and data-informed carbon-neutrality plan that aligns with future campus development plans for a healthier environment.

Presenters:

Rebecca Arnold, Assistant Director, University of Maryland-College Park
Michael Austin, Senior Associate, Cooper Robertson
Mike Aziz, Partner, Cooper Robertson
Jonathan Friedan, Principal, Ballinger

Delivered 07/22/2024.

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