Arsam, Muhammad; Buchanan, Regan; Chen, Lu; Conschafter, Stephen; Clowse, Maddy; Foxley, Sebastian; Franco-Pinilla, Rossana; Garcia, Mirna; Nicolson, Maggie; Manitius, Natalie; Snedaker, Tasha; Wineski, Olivia. Under the guidance of Perry Yang, Professor.

The studio's mission is to enhance the Nihonbashi neighborhood through carbon neutrality, climate resiliency, and post-Covid-19 consciousness. The studio focused on: 1. Celebrating the progress and history of the neighborhood 2. Engaging stakeholders across social, cultural, and geographic distances 3. Ensuring that future development supports climate resiliency and livable- and people-focused communities 4. Adding open spaces that support synergy between blue and green systems 5. Designing streetscapes and transit that makes movement enjoyable and accessible 6. Helping the neighborhood become more resilient to shocks such as Covid-19 or natural disasters 7. Anticipating trends and needs of population changes with land use 8. Harnessing smart technologies to enhance quality of life and economic opportunity, as well as our designs and processes 9. Catalyzing Tokyo's pursuit of carbon neutrality by using Nihonbashi as an example

Joel Hudson; Seung Jae Lieu; Michaela Master; Thomas Neaves; John Noe; Miles Rawlins; Samrawit Yohanis; Yuxiang Zhao. Under the guidance of Aaron Fortner, Part-Time Lecturer.

This studio examined updates to the Home Park master plan, exploring the impact on neighborhood futures and recommending short-term actions that signal reassertion or reimagining of neighborhood values. Students in the studio work in group settings and apply their knowledge across all specializations, emphasizing syntheses among them. 

“It is a true privilege to be asked by the neighborhood adjacent to the Georgia Tech campus to bring our urban design and planning studio resources to their community," Fortner said. "This studio has proven to be a tremendous resource for this historic neighborhood and has resulted in the development of a series of detailed planning concepts that community leaders are excited to implement."

Purva Singh, Pooja Gopi, Roxanne Raven, Cristina Velasquez, Safae Amahrir, and Paula Negrón-López. Under the supervision of Catherine Ross, Harry West Professor and Alberto Fuentes, Assistant Professor.

Based on a philosophy of community-based planning, the 2022 studio leveraged students’ planning skillset to bolster the organizational capacity of partner organization Impacto Juventud. A central assumption was that global studios can be mutually beneficial for students, who broaden their perspectives, and partners or clients, who increase access to resources. In the context of this studio, this was best accomplished by building the capacity of community organizations to support their outreach and activism. The studio’s sub-areas of focus included community asset mapping, renewable energy, and non-profit communications. 

Christopher L Barnum , Willie M Bolden, Ryan L Colburn, Natcha O-charoen, David J Pedrick, Zachary W Starbuck, Shuhui Zhen , Ashley S Baldwin, Violet F Bernard, Danielle L Blumenthal, Akhilesh V Dhurkunde, George P Doyle, Andrew Dunham, Bhaswini B Kokitkar, Eleni Kroi, Cynthia Peng, Danielle M Sisson, Hannah L Slep, Jun Wang, Alexandra D Watson, Sanjana Zahin. Under the supervision of Perry Yang, Associate Professor.

The Tokyo Smart City Studio in Spring 2020 investigated Shinagawa and its surroundings at the Tokyo Bay waterfront area in the context of new maglev high speed rail station area development, one of the biggest urban development projects in the City of Tokyo of the next decade. The operation of the new high-speed maglev rail station from 2030 will make Shinagawa a 70-70 new gateway, 70 minutes from Tokyo to Osaka for a region with 70 million population. The new infrastructure will compress the concept of space and time, and will change the inter-cities relation. Its future city vision will have profound impact to the urban forms, functions and experiences of the city. The project aims to develop a test bed of urban systems design to demonstrate how a smart community is designed, evaluated, and implemented in Japan by incorporating governmental agencies, stakeholders and communities, with focuses on urban design and modeling, urban analytics of big data, Internet of Things (IoT), smart mobility and eco urban performance evaluation.

Studios from past years can be found below. You'll notice that students complete a myriad of work all over Atlanta and across the globe.