Finding Purpose and Inspiration

This website and the resulting podcasts are the result of a final course project for the course UPPP H30F: Cities as Focal Points for Problems and Solutions at the University of California, Irvine. This website and the related podcasts seek to elucidate transportation sustainability as it related to the two cities of Riverside and Long Beach and offers both problems and possible solutions to this in both cities.

This project was inspired by the Sustainable Societies sequence and in particular by a lecture given by Professor Hyland in the Transportation Department at UCI. Transportation sustainability was not something that we had considered would be important, but that we knew would be integral to our understanding of sustainable cities. Transportation and modes of transportation are very important for every person to efficiently and effectively manuever around the large city. Thus, this is an important topic to research and to propose problems and solutions for.

Riverside Photos taken in the morning below

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Navigation of Website

On the sidebar, you will find a full navigation with clickable links of our website with different descriptions of what they are. Here is a brief tour through the website with brief descriptions / teasers:

Home-Page: This is where you can find the main hub of all of the main findings, our group picture, pictures of our trips to Riverside and Long Beach and our general purpose with these podcast episodes.

The City of Riverside: Learn more about the history of Riverside and general background information with which we were working with as we were analyzing Riverside through the transportation sustainability lens.

The City of Long Beach: Learn more about the history of Long Beach and general background information with which we were working with as we were analyzing Riverside through the transportation sustainability lens.

Podcast Episodes: There are 5 podcast episodes that you can learn more about transportation sustainability and issues, proposed problems and solutions, and more fun with us podcasters! Learn more about Riverside and Long Beach from both local and expert perspectives.

Full Transcripts: Full transcripts are provided of all of our interviews.

Resources: This is where all of our cited resources are in APA format. This is where we got all our academic research information from, learn more from reading those articles!

Long Beach Photos taken in the afternoon below!

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Main Outcomes

Here are also some of the main findings that we found through this research project that we would like to share, so that everyone can get a ‘gist’ of what the content of our podcasts entails and to demonstrate aligning our findings with the course outcomes of UPPP H30F.

* Transportation Sustainability is a focal point for urban planning and for cities as both a problem and a place of intervention for possible solutions. This is applicable both to the cities of Riverside and Long Beach. The issue of transportation sustainability can be analyzed best through the lens of people living in the area who use the public transit system.

When thinking of transportation sustainability, thinking of it as a system helps to simplify and consolidate infrastructure and transportation systems.

Special thanks to:

• Campuswide Honors Program (CHP)
• Professor Miryha Runnerstrom (Public Health)
• Professor Steve Davis (Earth System Science)
• Professor Julie Schoenung (Materials Science and Engineering)
• Professor Ajay Garde (Urban Planning and Public Policy)

This is a project was created by:

Anthony Nguyen, Aidan Dong, Cindy Ung, Catherine Kung

Featured Image Credit: Link