This research is focused on how mall conversions can be planned and implemented in a sustainable way. From a review of the relevant literature on sustainable redevelopment, and taking into account the California context, the project developed sustainability criteria for assessing shopping mall redevelopment plans in the state, and applied the criteria to four cases with active redevelopment plans.
Researchers at the University of Southern California looked at case studies of ten distressed malls in California’s metropolitan areas to assess their potential for mixed-use development, including housing.
This project examines population shifts that result from rail station construction. It addresses pre-existing concerns of new rail neighborhoods leading to gentrification.
The researchers use a survey of homeowners in Sacramento, California, to investigate the supply and sufficiency of residential parking for single-family homes, including how households actually use their garages, and help answer the ADU parking conundrum.
The researchers designed a bikeshare station (BSS) location optimization tool that aims to alleviate the impacts of this spatial divide through bikeshare services.
This study used a proprietary dataset of for-rent listings to test the ways in which Small Area Fair Market Rents would change the number of listings below Fair Market Rents across five California HUD metropolitan Fair Market Rents areas.
UC Davis researchers surveyed homeowners in Sacramento and collected lot size and other data to investigate whether the total effective parking supply of the average single-family detached home is sufficient to accommodate the vehicles associated with the residents of both a primary dwelling and a potential ADU.
