Lila Stanfield

RESUME

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)

Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) 

• Attended Part-time to Full-time from August 2008 to June 2012

 

PROJECTS IN URBAN PLANNING / GIS

Studio II (Capstone Project) – Expansion of the City Point Historic District Plan for the City of Hopewell Analyzed and identified historic resources in the City Point area and created goals for the protection and preservation of homes. Used research skills by pulling information from local residents, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Assessor’s Office, and walking surveys to create data for analysis and input into GIS for maps.

 

Studio I (Group Project) – The Revitalization Plan for the Swansboro Neighborhood in the City of Richmond Coordinated with community stakeholders to analyze current neighborhood conditions and generate goals, objectives, and strategies for improving the neighborhood. Worked in the transportation and circulation group analyzing the existing transportation methods, road and utility conditions, traffic patterns, parking issues, pedestrian and bicycle routes, as well as public transportation and current utility infrastructure.

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

• Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Community Socioeconomic Analysis Using GIS, Spatial Database Management and GIS Modeling, GIS Applications in Decision Analysis using Urban Design and Spatial Analysis

• Web Page Design using Adobe Dreamweaver and HTML• Legal and Legislative Foundations of Planning

• London Summer Abroad Program - Housing and Urban Regeneration in the U.K.

• Tourism Policy and Planning• Historical Preservation and Architectural History Architectural Analysis and Historic Preservation, Adaptive Reuse of Buildings

• Planning process, socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, building analysis for utilities distribution, housing, transportation, environmental considerations and land use.

 

University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Bachelor of Arts in Geography

Minor in Art History - December 1997

 

I completed General Education Courses including Art History, English, African American Studies, World Music, Chemistry, Spanish and then I found Geography. That became my major with a minor in Art History. My focus areas were maps and planning in Geography once I took the course called Great Cities at the time I was inspired and motivated. My focus within Art History was on the Architecture of Buildings. Some of the Courses I took with a short synopsis

• GEOG 5 – Socioeconomic Geography - Some topics included human spatial decision-making behavior, migration, population growth, economic development, industrial location, urbanization, and human impacts on the natural environment.

• GEOG 156 – Great Cities - Study of the economic, social, and political networks that link together cities of global importance. Focused project on the City of Baltimore researching and doing analysis of 400 years of history.

• GEOG 119 – Climatic Change - Mechanisms and processes which produce climate change, and how they have affected human society.

• GEOG 176A - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems - Topics included geographic data collection, modeling, and representation; geographic databases; cartographic issues; spatial queries; mobile GIS, and Lab work creating maps and performing analysis.

• HIST 177 – California History - The unique landscapes of California and the physical, cultural, and biotic processes which have produced them. Focus on the settling with the missions and Indians, growth and city development of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

• GEOG 185A - Geography Planning and Policy Making – Planning and Policy making, review of core concepts in decision making, planning theory, systems analysis, information systems, urban and regional modeling, forecasting, impact analysis, implementation of decisions, planning policies.