{"id":286,"date":"2011-07-01T18:27:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T18:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=286"},"modified":"2017-05-23T19:14:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T19:14:47","slug":"tom-thao-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2011\/07\/01\/tom-thao-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Thao &#8217;11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By WENDI WHEELER &#8217;06<\/p>\n<p>Major: SOCIOLOGY<\/p>\n<p>Internship: LOCAL INITIATIVE SUPPORT CORPORATION (LISC)<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-287\" title=\"Tom-Thao\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/Tom-Thao.jpg\" alt=\"TOM THAO\" width=\"364\" height=\"245\" \/>What are you doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been researching the area around the proposed stops along University Avenue on the Central Corridor Light Rail line. I have looked at the cost of developing high-density housing units in the area. I have also looked at government policies that were changed, such as some zoning policies and parking regulations. I have had to look at the background information of the proposed stops and give their story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What have you learned?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am getting more into urban planning and learning about the policies involved in implementing a big project into a city.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the value of your internship?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would like to have a career in urban planning, so it&#8217;s been beneficial to go into the field and get to know people. I hope I can build up my r\u00e9sum\u00e9 these next few years and then get a master&#8217;s in urban regional planning. But right now it&#8217;s about building the connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By WENDI WHEELER &#8217;06 Major: SOCIOLOGY Internship: LOCAL INITIATIVE SUPPORT CORPORATION (LISC) What are you doing? I have been researching the area around the proposed stops along University Avenue on the Central Corridor Light Rail line. I have looked at the cost of developing high-density housing units in the area. I have also looked at <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[76,50],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-sociology","tag-summer-2011"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7806,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/7806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}