ASU students to help Mesa create a town square
The Jan. 1 issue of the Arizona Republic featured a cooperative project between the City of Mesa and ASU’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning.
Mesa’s mayor Scott Smith envisioned a centrally-located public gathering-place in the heart of the city, comparable to the town squares or plazas that exist in many other cities. When a bond election in November provided start-up funding to design the plaza, the city turned to ASU’s planning program for help.
The outcome is a spring 2013 course offering, “Place-making in Mesa,” in which graduate students will work at producing a viable concept for the town square.
Read the full Arizona Republic article at the link below.
The School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning is an academic unit of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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