Urban Umbrella`s By Justin Desilva

Urban Umbrella’s By Justin Desilva
Brought to you with the help from:
The
Museum
On
Site
Lyra Montiero &
Andrew Losowsky
Sloan’s Friend Benjamin Gramann
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Vision Statement
The Museum On Site is dedicated to helping people understand their worlds
through site-specific, free public experiences that share ideas and
information in accessible and stimulating ways.
Mission Statement
The Museum On Site is committed to:
changing people’s understanding of the worlds around them
providing broad access to ideas and information by entering existing nonmuseum spaces where people gather
educating people in stimulating, non-conventional ways, engaging them both
emotionally and intellectually through methodologies drawn from theater,
museums, art, advertising, public ritual, and other, experience-based media
working with scholarly research in a sensitive way, bringing together
academics and local community groups
inspiring people to use its creations as a springboard to further learning, by
providing educational opportunities and information
documenting its work, inviting discussion, and sharing its methods and
discoveries
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SPRAWLING NEIGHBORHOODS,
FUELED BY ENCAPSULATED
HIGH SPEED VEHICLES, ARE A
SIGNIFICANT DESTROYER OF
COMMUNITIES.
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The department of
transportation has
succeeded in creating
continuous roads,
providing a platform on
which to explore and
travel.
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Simultaneously,
these roads
and vehicles
have destroyed
our sense of
community, our
respect for one
another, and our
health.
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Why does this merit our concern ?
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Due to inclement weather In the State of Rhode
Island and City of Providence, the automobile has
become the most widely
used form of transportation.
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‘Over the last century, no single
machine has done more to shape
the landscape of our nation, from
the asphalt grids of our cities and
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Our current transportation system is
ultimately flawed.
Our current transportation system is
ultimately flawed.
WE are asking the wrong questions.
Our current transportation system is
ultimately flawed.
WE are asking the wrong questions.
It is the assumption by nearly every
designer, that all
manufactured goods are to be taken
home via automobile.
Our current transportation system is
ultimately flawed.
WE are asking the wrong questions.
It is the assumption by nearly every
designer, that all
manufactured goods are to be taken
home via automobile.
It costs more money to live, eat and work
locally.
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How has this problem been addressed by others ?
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How do we address this problem differently ?
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Warm
cool
dry
safe
social
entertaining
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Let’s go back in time
Let’s look ahead
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how can we create faster
and more sustainable ways
of getting from point A to
point b?
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how can we transform
our existing environment,
through the experience
of sharing, and build
stronger communities, by
accommodating the needs
of pedestrians?
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Mission:
To transform streets
and sidewalks from
avenues of navigation
into places of exchange.
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Phasing: Where do we start?
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Rain, economy
dampen tourism
season in Rhode
Island
communities that account for 70 percent of the draw,
revenue was down considerably.
pent-up demand. People hadn’t gotten their vacations
in yet. Labor Day is kind of the official last hurrah,
but September and October have outperformed [the
summer months] ... perennially.”
Schatmeyer, the bed-and-breakfast owner, said his
bookings are up for this month and next.
In Providence, revenue was down 11.8 percent. Warwick
also showed a significant decrease, with 18.4 percent
Sep. 4--NEWPORT -- Harry“It
Schatmeyer
hopes
seems people
areLabor
getting out of their shells,” he
less. Middletown was down 32 percent. In Newport, usDay weekend and the sunny said,
forecast
startsthink
a no-vacancy
“I
don’t
people
are traveling much.”
ing data obtained from the city, hotel tax revenue for June
trend at his bed and breakfast, something he hasn’t seen
was off 27.5 percent.
all summer.
After a rough summer, Bayberry Inn manager Karen
Green is also counting on fall business.
The weather was the key reason for the drop off, tourism
Schatmeyer, who owns Victorian Ladies Inn with his
officials said.
wife, Cheryl, has rooms booked
this
holiday
“June
was
not soweekend,
great because of the economy, but
and more customers are scheduled
the rain didn’t help,” Green said. “At the visitors’
There have been 16.93 inches of rain for June, July and
to arrive this fall. He’s counting
on that
to for
make
center,
theybusiness
are asking
our rates, something that
August, according to the National Weather Service. That
up for one of the slowest summer
in decades,
hasn’tseasons
happened
before. I can understand you being
compares with the average summer rainfall of 9 inches,
dampened by the soggy weather
a weak
on a and
budget,
but economy.
it’s Newport in the summertime.
making 2009 among the top-10 wettest summer seasons
What
the
coming
fall looks like depends on whether
on record, said meteorologist Alan Dunham.
“We were breaking even overorlast
year
through
May.
not it’s going to be
a good color season.”
June was actually good,” Schatmeyer said. “In July, we
June and July each logged 17 days of rain. August was
got hurt. We were down 8 orTo
9 percent.
discounted
make doWe
with
a lackluster summer, Ann Coulton,
sunnier, but there were still eight days of rain. The tradieverything.”
president of the Newport County Inns and Bed &
tional summer season will end this weekend, however,
Breakfast Association, and owner of the Victoria Skywith sunny, dry weather and temperatures in the upper
Schatmeyer, hotel managers,lar
merchants
Inn, saidand
she others
and 30who
member inns worked together
70s on Saturday and Sunday with some clouds showing
make money from the touristtotrade
blame
the
rain,
the
create discount packages.
up on Monday, Dunham said.
number of people out of work and an unsteady stock market for the falloff in businessThe
during
the lastincluded
three months.
discounts
dinning options, tours of the
The inclement weather resulted in one of the worst summansions,
admission
to
the Tennis Hall of Fame Mumers for tourism in the last 20 years, said Evan Smith,
New data from the start of the
summer
supports
their
president of the Newport County Convention and Visitors seum and some marine and boat attractions.
claims.
Bureau. He said many people canceled bookings, affect“July was a month of nothing. I was down 65 pering room, meal and sales taxes, and event attendance.
Overall, the amount of money
collected
from
room
cent,”
Coulton
said,
buttaxes
people extending stays for a
in Rhode Island was down 14.7
percent
statewide
inkeep
Juneher afloat. “Each indiweek
or
longer
helped
“A lot of people jumped to the economy. It was more the
2009 compared with the same
period
yearpeople
earlier,who
ac- were looking for bargains.
vidual
inna had
weather,” Smith said. “Looking forward to the second
cording to the state Department
of
Revenue.
In
the
four
I have sold more packages this year. In talking to the
half, we just finished a nice August. There was a lot of
Department of Education
$ 733,692,095.11
Department of Administration
$ 562,105,719.20
Department of Transportation
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Department of Human Services
$ 201,373,478.35
Department of Children, Youth and Families
$ 172,641,072.56
Department of Corrections
$ 133,345,200.92
Department of Revenue
$ 110,667,169.29
Department of Public Safety
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Department of Health
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Department of Labor and Training
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Department of Environmental Management
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Office of the Adjutant General / Military Staff
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Department of the General Treasurer
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Department of Elderly Affairs
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Board of Governors for Higher Education
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Department of Business Regulation
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Office of Health and Human Services
$ 4,122,359.93
Governor’s Office
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Providence Neighborhoods
Map Produced by The Providence Plan
Data Sources: RIGIS, City of Providence
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every day design
Mission:
To better the city of
providence through
sharing.
help build smaller,
stronger communities.
transform our existing
environment to
accomodate the needs of
pedestrians.
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challenges:
natural environment
-weather
proximity
-reallocation of resources
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