Imagine Our Norcross: Planning for immigrant Integration
Date
2015-12Author
Kim, Anna Joo
O’Connell, Katie
Doyle, Jessica
Wilson, Kate
Plante, Jessica
Bowman, Ryan
Shields, Madi
Chang, Eileen
Byars, Kristin
Schleicher, John Eric
Coursey, Nathan
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In the spring of 2015, a group of researchers from Georgia Tech’s School of City and Regional
Planning created a studio project to collect information about the immigrant populations living
and doing business in the city of Norcross, Georgia, as well as the unincorporated parts of the Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District (CID). The goal of the studio was to provide
the city of Norcross and the Gwinnett Village CID with two sets of information: one, a portrait of
the overall immigrant community—how and where people lived; where they worked; where they
played, argued, shopped, and prayed—and two, what this community would need in order to
become more engaged in the area’s civic and economic life.