The iQuilt Plan - A Collection of Documents, Presentations and News Articles

The goal of the iQuilt Plan is to connect cultural assets in Hartford to create a more vibrant, walkable, sustainable city and downtown. This page collects various documents, presentations and news articles on the topic.

Documents:

iQuilt Overview - The iQuilt plan is downtown Hartford’s exciting urban design strategy for walkability and creative placemaking. It capitalizes on two of Hartford’s greatest strengths: its extraordinary concentration of arts, cultural and landscape assets and its exceptionally compact downtown. The cultural assets are physically close, but the pedestrian links between them are often weak. The iQuilt Plan strengthens those links. It offers an array of physical and programmatic improvements to the pedestrian network of public space – parks, plazas, streets, and sidewalks. (PDF document, 63 pages)

The iQuilt Plan for Downtown Hartford: A Pocket Guide - This pocket guide is a handy abbreviated version of the full iQuilt Plan Overview, released in January 2012. (PDF document, 19 pages)

The iQuilt Plan, Phase 2 - "The iQuilt” is a loose grid of park-to-river pedestrian routes which would weave together Hartford's key cultural sites and institutions around the theme of cultural innovation. Currently taking place throughout 2011, the iQuilt Phase 2 focuses on the design of three key elements: iQuilt Strategic Plan, GreenWalk Master Plan, and Connecticut Square Master Plan. (PDF document, 53 pages)

The iQuilt: Capital District Vision Plan and Hartford's Pathways of Innovation - A document which outlines a new concept plan for Hartford which promotes a formal development of what is called “The iQuilt”, a loose grid of park-to-river pedestrian routes which would weave together Hartford's key cultural sites and institutions around the theme of cultural innovation. (PDF document, 10 pages)

Presentations:

iQuilt PowerPoint Presentation - This is a pdf version of the PowerPoint presentation made at a public forum at the Hartford Public Library on November 25, 2010, by the iQuilt planners and partners. The presentation includes a project update, the renderings of the project. The presentation was led by project planning principal and Hartford native Doug Suisman, of Suisman Urban Design of Los Angeles. (PDF document, 116 pages)

News Articles:

Hartford’s iQuilt: A Big Idea Where Somebody Needs To Step Up (Hartford Courant, January 11, 2012)

Downtown Hartford's iQuilt Plan (Hartford Courant, June 14, 2011)

iQuilt Phase II: Part 1 of 3 (Real Hartford, March 30, 2011)

iQuilt Phase II: Part 2 of 3 (Real Hartford, March 31, 2011)

iQuilt Phase II: Part 3 of 3 (Real Hartford, March 31, 2011)

Hartford's iQuilt: The Start Of Something Big (Hartford Courant, July 24, 2010)

Hartford's iQuilt Needs a Main Street Component (Hartford Courant, July 18, 2010)

iQuilt: Corridors Of Culture (Hartford Courant, June 21, 2009)