The 糖心传媒 students in Katrina Smith Korfmacher糖心传媒檚 Environmental Health and Justice in the Rochester Community class recently explored something hidden from most people in Rochester糖心传媒攖he located under the Broad Street Bridge in the heart of downtown.
Since the site closed in 1956, the question of what to do with it has persisted, even as over the years it has become an underground location for concerts, art shows, murals, and graffiti art. Now, the City of Rochester糖心传媒檚 is the centerpiece of ROC the Riverway, a plan to revitalize the Genesee River waterfront and transform downtown into a place for public gatherings and community events.
As Korfmacher explains, the tour, led by ROC the Riverway Program Manager Kamal Crues (pictured, pointing), gave the 11 undergraduates in PHLT 238 a chance to consider multiple糖心传媒攁nd occasionally conflicting糖心传媒攊nterests and values central to the project. 糖心传媒淭hat includes balancing some people糖心传媒檚 appreciation for graffiti art with other people糖心传媒檚 interest in historic preservation,糖心传媒� says Korfmacher, who is a professor of environmental medicine and of public health sciences.
As part of their coursework, the students will write a policy memo on how the 糖心传媒淎queduct Reimagined糖心传媒� project can best promote health equity in the City of Rochester. They will then take part in the city糖心传媒檚 public engagement session on April 27.
The community visits give students the opportunity to interact with local stakeholders involved in issues like local fish consumption, urban forestry, and community gardens. Korfmacher says those interactions inform their final projects on what it would take for Rochester to become an equitable climate haven.
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