{"167601":{"#nid":"167601","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT, UGA Studio Collaborative Imagines a Sustainable Biloxi Casino","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAllegories of Virtue and Vice, an architectural design studio by Senior Lecturer Stuart Romm, will produce a proposal for a new, ecologically sound gambling casino to be built in the hurricane-ravaged city of Biloxi, Mississippi. The studio is important on a number of levels, not the least of which is its thoughtful collaboration between landscape architecture students in the University of Georgia\u2019s College of Environment and Design, with architecture students from Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Architecture. According to Prof. Romm, the two programs complement each other very well, because degrees in architecture are not offered at U.Ga., while degrees in landscape architecture are not available at Georgia Tech. The two sets of faculty and students are offered a rare chance to learn about each other\u2019s skill sets and knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe projects they are working on are important to the Gulf Coast region as well. Virtually swept away by hurricane Katrina in 2005, the shorefront region of Biloxi has sought to rebuild in a way that both revives the commercial economy of the region and protects the environment. Toward that end, the State has proposed to build a casino, with the profits to be diverted to coastal reclamation. Prof. Douglas Pardue of U.Ga. stated that it is likely that the emerging plans will propose \u201cartificial islands that function at the level of city nodes, shepherd the marsh and larger environmental processes, provide protection from future disasters, and provide constructive social activities, weaving all this into a collection of gambling, spa, and other economically productive functions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInnovative undergraduate design studio to develop an ecologically senstive gambling casino site in Mississippi.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27202","created_gmt":"2012-11-01 13:28:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:06","author":"David Morton","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"174551":{"id":"174551","type":"image","title":"GT-UGA  Field Trip, Auburn Rural Studio","body":null,"created":"1449179012","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:43:32","changed":"1475894816","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:56","alt":"GT-UGA  Field Trip, Auburn Rural Studio","file":{"fid":"195970","name":"romm2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/romm2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/romm2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":322268,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/romm2.jpg?itok=bM-3JU_4"}},"174541":{"id":"174541","type":"image","title":"GT - UGa at Gulf Coast Community Design Studio","body":null,"created":"1449179012","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:43:32","changed":"1475894816","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:56","alt":"GT - UGa at Gulf Coast Community Design Studio","file":{"fid":"195969","name":"romm1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/romm1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/romm1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1011642,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/romm1.jpg?itok=8b5wRNKz"}},"174561":{"id":"174561","type":"image","title":"GT-UGA Charette at the Hinman Building","body":null,"created":"1449179012","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:43:32","changed":"1475894816","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:56","alt":"GT-UGA Charette at the Hinman Building","file":{"fid":"195971","name":"romm3.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/romm3.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/romm3.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":478496,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/romm3.jpg?itok=p8MVRYxZ"}},"174571":{"id":"174571","type":"image","title":"GT-UGa Design Jury in Athens Ga","body":null,"created":"1449179022","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:43:42","changed":"1475894816","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:56","alt":"GT-UGa Design Jury in Athens Ga","file":{"fid":"195972","name":"romm4.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/romm4.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/romm4.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":340139,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/romm4.jpg?itok=6N-VZMfw"}}},"media_ids":["174551","174541","174561","174571"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4838","name":"University of Georgia"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:david.morton@coa.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDavid Morton\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.morton@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}