Category Archives: Planning

How America Uses Its Land…

Stumbled upon this very interesting land use map in Bloomberg, written by Dave Merrill and Lauren Leatherby.  It shows us that the “48 contiguous states alone are a 1.9 billion-acre jigsaw puzzle of cities, farms, forests and pastures that Americans … Continue reading

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The Value of a Park

Check out this great NY Times story of a park in Tulsa designed by MVVA. The firm working on the West End landscape design for Dartmouth.

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Is this an option for the Upper Valley housing market?

http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article183986801.html

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May is National Bike Month

May is Bike Month and we are ready for it! Biking is a fun, green and healthy alternative to driving. The folks from dartmouthbikes.com are removing abandoned bikes from the racks to make space available for yours. If you are … Continue reading

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Spring Launch Zagster Bike Share

Join Dartmouth’s affordable and convenient Zagster bike share program. After hibernating for the winter, Zagster bikes return to campus on March 27th. The entire fleet will roll out with new Bluetooth-enabled ring locks, making Zagster bikes available at the touch … Continue reading

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Planning Office Completes 2016 Space Survey

Among the many projects taking place in our Planning Office, one of the more recent is the completion of the Annual Space Survey. The Planning Office just completed the 2016 Space Survey with the vital cooperation from departments campus-wide. The Space … Continue reading

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Planning Office Acquires GPS

Working with Waypoint Technology Group we have acquired and been trained in the use of a Trimble Geo7x with GIS Tornado Antenna. We will be using our new GPS to improve the quality of GIS data around campus.  We look … Continue reading

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Dartmouth’s New Transportation Video

Check out Transportation Services’ new video, informing us of the multiple ways to get around Dartmouth.

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Point-to-Point Bike Sharing Comes to Dartmouth

There is just one week left until we launch bike sharing at Dartmouth. Our partner, Zagster, delivered the bikes and Dartmouth’s Parking Director Patrick O’Neill tried one out. See him fly by! More info at: zagster.com/dartmouth  

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SCUP Celebrity

My 15 seconds of fame on the SCUP website, in a planner kind of way:

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