PORTFOLIOMatthew ArancioUrban Planner - Consultant631.662.9262matthew.arancio@gmail.comNew York, NY

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Professional Work

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Connect Long Island MapThis map was prepared for County Executive Steve Bellone to present his Connect Long Island regional transportation and development plan. This was a redesign of the original Connect Long Island map (shown below), and is stylized, showcases emerging downtowns, explains transit system components, and highlights the scale of projects in comparison to the island of Manhattan.

Ronkonkoma Hub

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Patchogue

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Sagtikos Parkway

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OakdaleSayville

Patchogue

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Mastic - Shirley

Speonk

Westhampton

Hampton Bays

Southampton

Bridgehampton

East Hampton

Amagansett

Montauk

Greenport

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YaphankMedfordRonkonkoma

Central IslipBrentwoodDeer Park

WyandanchPinelawn

Port JeffersonStony Brook

St. James

Smithtown

Kings Park

Montauk

Greenlawn

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Northport

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Cold Spring Harbor

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LIRR Electrificationconversion of diesel train service to electrified third rail service increasing the frequency and cost savings of existing rail service. Electrification also decreases the need to transfer trains, providing longer one seat ride service to and from New York City.

LIRR Double Trackconstruction of a second track between Farmingdale and Ronkonkoma to reduce crowding, prevent delays and boost the local economy by:- increasing Reverse Peak service- expanding Off Peak service in both directions- creating better connections to MacArthur Airport

Bus Rapid Transitan express bus service offering the high quality amenities of rail service at a fraction of the cost. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is faster and more reliable than local bus service and features amenities such as more attractive station shelters, real time service updates, and dedicated bus service infrastructure to keep people moving despite intense traffic.

Regional Asset1. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2. Farmingdale State University3. SCCC - Brentwood Campus4. MacArthur Airport5. SCCC - Ammerman Campus6. Stony Brook University

7. Stony Brook Hospital8. Brookhaven National Lab9. EPCAL10. Hamptons Business District @ Gabreski Airport11. Riverhead

Transit Oriented Development

a development concentrated around a main transporta-tion hub such as a LIRR train station. Transit Oriented Developoment (TOD) is a walkable downtown that balances urban and suburban living, and features amenities such as attractive and varied housing options, high quality public spaces, and retail and transit all in close proxmity.

A Regional Transportation and Development Plan

Connect Long Island

ConneCt Long IsLanda Regional transportation and development Plan

Suffolk County ExECutivE StEvE BEllonE

Creating sustainable, long-term economic growthOur region is in trouble. Young people are leaving at record rates, we have a lack of quality affordable housing, a lack of high paying jobs, and a high volume of traffic. The only way to combat these problems is with a comprehensive plan for sustainable long-term economic growth.

Connect Long Island is a comprehensive regional transportation and development plan that argues we can create an innovation economy and sustainable growth by supporting Transit Oriented Developments and building a 21st century transportation infrastructure that connects these development hubs to our major research and educational institutions and innovation zones for emerging hi-tech companies.

Transit Oriented Development Educational & Research Assets/Innovation Zones

LIRR Double Track

Bus Rapid Transit Line

Recommended Expansion of LIRR Electrification

1. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory2. Farmingdale State University3. Suffolk County Community College - Brentwood Campus4. Stony Brook University5. Suffolk County Community College - Ammerman Campus

6. Brookhaven National Laboratory7. EPCAL 8. Suffolk County Community College - Riverhead Campus9. Hamptons Business District at Gabreski Airport

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Building an innovation economy

The layout of the new Connect Long Island map was in part inspired by the below “Map of Long Island”, which is a fixture of many households across Long Island.

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TOD Max Build Out AnalysisI was charged with quantifying the returns on investment related to the expansion of bus rapid transit infrastructure, and also justifying that increases in density in existing town centers would not detract from overall quality of life. In order to do so, I compared existing build out and max build out under existing zoning, with potential max build out in light of a transit oriented development zoning overlay that would increase density. This analysis was targeted at existing commercial and industrial parcels - my rationale being that residential parcels could maintain a suburban quality of life, while commercial and industrial parcels could absorb future growth. I not only quantified changes in terms of number of housing units and stores that could be built, but also prepared visual materials such as renderings and maps to visually illustrate TOD changes.

tax, population, and parking demand were calculated using residential and commercial SF multipliers. subsequent iterations of this study also include sales taxes generated.

Study Area and Existing Conditions

Rendering and Quantitative Analysis

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Sephton Street BRTA crucial element of the Connect Long Island plan is the construction of three north south bus rapid transit corridors that will link east west train corridor stations and downtowns. An original concept for the terminus of on of these corridors would have had pedestrians cross over open train tracks in order to transfer between BRT and trains. Working closely with the Department of Public Works, I prepared a study detailing route alternatives that would preserve parking, enhance pedestrian experience,

Original Route Revised Route

Approach Configuration Road Sections New BRT Station Rendering

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Tripoli, Libya’s Al Mansoura Neighborhood Transportation Master PlanPrepared for Libya’s state run urban planning office, ECOU, the plan comprised parking, public transportation, and lane distribution strategies for Al Mansoura, a neighborhood in Tripoli, Libya.

Context Intersection Geometry Benchmark

Road Hiearchy Modifications

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Saint Louis Gateway Memorial ParkPrepared with CBB Engineers, this study for Civitas comprised road reconfiguration strategies to provide better pedestrian acces to Saint Louis’ Gateway Arch Park.

Highway System / BEFORE Highway System / AFTER

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Master’s Thesis and Honors Project

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Network Governance for Urban Regions

Urban form is the amalgamation of a web of social activity, a spatial manifestation of human ingenuity and ambition, a place of gathering and collective meaning and a place of flux and almost constant evolution. Our society is quickly changing into a network society. Cities and urban systems at once are growing upward, becoming forums of intensified information exchange, growing outward, drawing more and more upon regional resources and markets to satiate the competitive erg of an intensified and hyper connected global economy, and are increasingly juxtaposing international and local movement of people, goods and information. As growth and development has led to the emergence of dense networks of globally connected urban regions, urban governments remain frozen in time, relics of past understanding of how to govern and how to organize urban systems. As cities have expanded well beyond conventional geographic boundaries and delineations of such government institutions, actors are left to respond with antiquated tools in an otherwise more challenging and complex socio-cultural context.

This thesis is a study of functional mismatches between urban spatial and social systems. This thesis is also an exploration of providing strategies to mitigate functional mismatches with new policy tools. The thesis begins with the premise that fragmentation of urban governance networks is in large part attributed to the inability of these networks to tackle regional coordination problems because of local boundary constraints. The resulting mismatch between urban governance capacity to engage larger scale urban systems requires new forms of creative collaboration, to fill service provision gaps. Digital and telecommunications technologies, their installation and their use to produce public services at the city and regional level is proposed as means not only to activate dialogues and collaboration between actors in a given network, but also to change cultures of collaboration. Learning to work together initially, then communicating and collaborating more rapidly through an increase in the quality of connections will serve to mitigate the “mismatch” of urban governance service provision at the regional level as actors will shift and adopt new roles to adjust and fully take advantage of technological change. Discussions of strategies to mitigate mismatch in metropolitan areas will be applied to two United States cities, New York and Portland, for further theoretical development application.

Reconfiguring Governance Networks through Implementation of Information and Communication Technologies to Meet the Needs of Changing Metropolises

WiFi Provision Strategies Internet’s Impact on Governance Policy Coordination in Emilia Romagna

Regional IT networks, urbanized areas, and government boundaries

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UC@MITO / Where A MI? Where TO?Capstone Project of the Alta Scuola Politecnica Honors Program in Project innovation and Management

Urban computing refers to the use of information technologies to monitor in real time the flows of people and goods in urban spaces. The project teams of UC@MITO were challenged to apply strategies in real time information monitoring and sharing in the cities of Milan and Turin. Both cities were identified as cities marketing themselves as cities of large events. With large events precluding and requiring information exchange between citizens, visitors, governments and businesses, the management of flows and providing a spatial dimension for information exchange became a primary project objective for Team B. Large events were seen as an opportunity to provide needed infrastructure to promote information exchange for both visitors in the short term and citizens in the long term.

Team B of UC@MITO proposed Where A MI?/Where TO? as a project to keep “word of mouth” information exchange human, creating an urban spatial dimension for online connectivity and real time information exchange. The project is composed: hardware, software and space. Hardware refers to the provision of wireless hotspots. Software, instead, refers to an online platform for user authentication and information exchange through Internet connectivity. Space, finally, refers to the provision of a physical dimension to online hotspots in public space. Strategies for wireless service provision were derived and adapted from the experiences observed in the cities of Bologna and Reggio Emilia, with public private strategies for wireless provision being applied to Milan and Turin. The idea was to ultimately provide a spatial forum for online information exchange. Spatial distribution strategies focused on building on and complimenting existing urban hierarchies.

The UC@MITO project was ultimately developed hand and hand wtih and benefited with ongoing research from my Master’s thesis.

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Where TO? HOMEPAGE

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Where A MI? Project Map in Navigli, Milan

Where A Mi? Passing Post Where A Mi? Shelter

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Course Work

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Via Turati Neighborhood Redevelopment ProjectThis project, prepared for the Social Development Laboratory of the Politecnico di Milano, involved turning a peripherial social housing complex into a new neighborhood center by studying and revising an existing neighborhood redevelopment plan.

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Lodi to Milano Regional ProjectThis project, prpeared for the Urban Design Laboratory at the Politecnico di Milano, studies regional social and spatial systems to ultimately generate a new territorial project focusing on their overlapping and linking.

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Sketches

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Bring Sketches To LifeColorizing sketches to create more realistic cityscapes.

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I was born in Michigan and raised on Long Island, NY in the shadow of Megalopolis. During the course of my studies, I’ve had the opportunity to live in Montreal, Bologna, and Milan. I’m now established in New York City, prepared to bring my global experiences back to the United States.

As a planning professional, I’ve been interested in understanding and controlling flows - of people, goods, and information - through urban spaces.

I currently work as a Senior Planner at Suffolk County Economic Development and Planning. The department is broadly charged with the task of implementing our County Executive’s Connect Long Island vision - a regional transportation and development plan that intends to stop brain drain from Long Island, spur transit oriented development, and create an innovation economy. As a planner with background in transportation, I work on everything from bus rapid transit route and station configurations, to preparing outreach materials for stakeholder meetings in order to advance the Connect Long Island vision.

At Novetta Solutions I studied online social networks for government clients. This work tested my attention to detail and challenged me to develop my technical writing abilities. A far cry from the world of urban planning, it exposed me to new, challenging material that I hope to one day apply to a career in planning. Like other forms of infrastructure, I truly believe that the flow of information through the Internet will reshape our urban social and spatial systems - as a planner, I intend to be prepared to work with this new form of infrastructure to harness its power and benefit wider urban communiites.

A part from technical work, I have worked in urban transportation consulting. At Mobility In Chain I was challenged to view transportation planning from an Italian perspective. This perspective, both more fluid and more focused on the creation of quality public transportation and pedestrian spaces, has had a strong impact on my design sense. Starting from a whole transportation system, at

BiographyMobility In Chain, we were able to dive into details of urban transportation design such as lane distribution and pedestrian flow management - a total design approach that views streetscapes and transportation systems as more than just for the automobile. This approach is both inspirational and a model in North American contexts where we are slowly grappling with automobile dominated spaces.

More personally - what I love and what interests me...

Cities, urban conurbations, melting pots and places of flux. I studied urban planning and continue moonlight as an urban planner - I can’t help but think about and be obsessed with space, and how it is so much a manifestation of cultural identity. Unpacking and understanding the spaces around as , as well as learning to act within and being true to the specificity of place is an ongoing life pursuit and passion for me.

Foreign languages. The world is so full of expression and so many different ways to describe reality. To figure out how cultural consciousness is diffused through language to perfectly explain these realities is one of my greatest interests.

Writing, written expression, trying to make sense of the world through my thoughts and interpretations of reality. I’ve always found a wonderful outlet in writing, though up until recently I haven’t been disciplined enough to consistently practice. Now though, it’s become an important part of who I am.

Swimming, water, the ocean. I grew up near the beach and never realized until recently how much water, salt air and the outdoors has become an important part of who I am. The metaphors for life that we can draw from the world around us in this regard are incredible and the ocean in its seemingly infinite depth and constant flux is a wonderful place to start. For me, in life we all stand like seawalls... we try incessantly to hold back the waves of uncertainty, but in the end we can’t control the tides of change.

Yoga. Spirituality. The unknown and intangible. I’ve always reflected greatly about spirituality - to me spirituality is more than institutions. Growing up a Catholic, dogmatic hierarchy and discipline instilled a strong sense of social justice and community in me - the meaning of giving and sharing in faith. Praticing yoga and building my personal practice, I’ve realized that like water, spirituality is fluid and circular, rather than linear hierarchical. The universe and humans are a part of it are in a state of constant transition - the surrender to a lack of fixity and the openess to evolve and change with these forces has been a challenge for me, but I am learning to be more open.