Jordan Boudreau
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Public Space Survey for a Mayo Clinic Plaza
Rochester, MN — 2023, Gehl
I collaborated with a colleague at Gehl to conduct this study of circulation and public space usage in Peace Plaza, a public plaza in Rochester, Minnesota owned and managed by the Mayo Clinic.
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The methodology used in this study—Public Space and Public Life surveys (PSPLs)—is a survey method developed by Danish planner Jan Gehl, which employ transect and stationary counts to evaluate the “health” of a public space and inform planning decisions. In this study, we found a high correlation between facade quality and the “stickiness” of various parts of the plaza (the ratio of people passing through a space who choose to stay there), leading us to recommend more active facades and ground floor permeability.