Field Session

FS-005 - Envisioning Inclusive Communities for Public Housing: the History, Struggles, and Future

Compliments of: 

Field Session Leader(s)

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  Mary M. Vavra, ASLA, AICP, LEED Green Associate

  Senior Landscape Architect/Planner
  Barge Design Solutions
  Nashville, Tennessee
• 

  Scott Morton, ASLA, LEED AP

  Landscape Architect
  Smith Gee Studio
  Nashville, Tennessee

Field Session Presenter(s)

• 

  Alisha Eley, ASLA

  Associate
  Kimley-Horn
  Nashville, Tennessee
• 

  Will H. Marth, ASLA

  Associate|Partner
  Hawkins Partners
  Nashville, Tennessee

2.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Envision Cayce is a redevelopment plan and strategy for one of Nashville’s oldest public housing properties that blends a mixed-use, mixed-income sustainable community with adjacent urban historic neighborhoods near downtown. Enjoy a walking tour of the initial phases and experience the Five Points area of East Nashville.

$60 per person by August 18; $75 after August 18; includes transportation and water. Lunch on your own. Moderate walking.


Woonerf Street

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn about the affordable and low-income housing challenges in this growing city
• Understand the comprehensive public and resident input process
• Learn about the infrastructure challenges that impacted the designs
• Experience Cayce Place firsthand to see how the vision for mixed-income in public housing is coming to life in Nashville