{"id":763,"date":"2016-03-19T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar-draft\/?p=763"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:18:49","slug":"wickford-parking-lot-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/uncategorized\/wickford-parking-lot-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Wickford Parking Lot Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Outreach Projects<\/h1>\n<h2>Wickford Parking Lot Project<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Spring 2016<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/Parking-in-Wickford-RI-With-Green-Infrastructure.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-766 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/wickford-parking-lot-jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Parking in Wickford, RI with Green Infrastructure\" width=\"400\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/wickford-parking-lot-jpeg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/wickford-parking-lot-jpeg-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/wickford-parking-lot-jpeg-247x150.jpg 247w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/wickford-parking-lot-jpeg-80x49.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nStudents in the junior studio redesigned 3 parking lots in Wickford, RI that are prone to flooding at lunar and king tides. These lots are also vulnerable during increasingly more frequent and severe storm events.<\/p>\n<p>Each student worked individually on each parking lot incorporating the historic and cultural nature of the New England town into their proposals. Sets of boards from 6 students were chosen to be shown at the North Kingstown Public Library for 2 weeks as part of community outreach.<\/p>\n<p>This studio was funded by RI Sea Grant and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation through the Coastal Resources Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/Parking-in-Wickford-RI-With-Green-Infrastructure.pdf\">See the Full Report (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a note, the following semester, these students evaluated the effect of their designs by using ASLA Landscape Performance Measurements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project from Spring 2016 was carried out by 16 students in the junior design studio course, who redesigned 3 parking lots in Wickford that are prone to flooding at lunar and king tides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}