App: Sustainable Life: Vancouver Park Finder
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Mission statement
Parks are an important aspect of sustainable urban development, they increases a cities green space, protects nature ecosystem, provides clean air, and reduces peoples anxiety. The Vancouver Park Board maintains more than 230 parks that make up 11% of Vancouver’s land mass. The large selection of parks in Vancouver gives Vancouver’s resident great opportunities to enjoy the outdoors and promote awareness for having accessible green spaces in an urban environment.
According to the Greenest City 2020 Action Plan, Vancouver plans to increase green space in neighborhoods and increase the amount of green transportation on the road. The goal of 2020 Greenest City Plan inspired our group to design a web app to promote enjoy park use while reducing environmental impact. We developed a park finder to find the parks that suits the users need, then we incorporated transit, bike lanes, and electric charging stations to present user with multiply ways of reducing greenhouse gas output when traveling.
As Urban Area expand, the web app we developed will encourage residents to support the idea of preserving and creating new green spaces by making green spaces more accessible and customizable. At the same time, promoting a greener way of traveling.
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Team Members
Zijun Ma:
- Undergraduate student at SFU, Major in Physical Geography, specialize in physical geography and spatial information science.
- Enjoys physical activity and reading fictional novels.
Lingfei Long:
- Undergraduate student at SFU, Major in Physical Geography, specialize in physical geography and spatial information science.
- Great passion for off road trucks.
- Drove from Vancouver to Yellowknife in December and plans to do it again.
Shikai Ni:
- Undergraduate student at SFU, Major in Physical Geography, specialize in geoscience.
- Enjoys outdoor recreational activity, and video games.
- Panics when he can’t find his water bottle.
Zheng Luo:
- Undergraduate student at SFU, Global Environmental Systems Major.
- Dog and cat lover.
- Foodie.