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Designing For Urban Green Space

Designing For Urban Green Space. Elizabeth Goodman University of California, Berkeley School of Information. Urban green space is not “natural”. San Francisco Historical Photo Collection - San Francisco Public Library. Design is a form of politics.

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Designing For Urban Green Space

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  1. Designing For Urban Green Space Elizabeth Goodman University of California, Berkeley School of Information

  2. Urban green space is not “natural” San Francisco Historical Photo Collection - San Francisco Public Library

  3. Design is a form of politics What we want for green space can tell us a lot about what we want and fear for our cities. What public visits the park? Whose community is in the garden? Library of Congress

  4. Urban green spaces are a technology …for what end? Air Trees Eco Boulevard

  5. Public health Opportunity for exercise Asthma mitigation Psychological well-being Environmental remediation Storm runoff reduction Pollution absorption Wildlife protection Noise buffering The benefits of city green space Neighborhood stability Building social cohesion to address local concerns Early education, adult job training

  6. Defining urban green space

  7. Defining urban green space “Urban jewels” Celebrated spaces Publicly owned and accessible

  8. Defining urban green space Neighborhood spaces Ordinary small places Accessed mostly by “the locals”

  9. Defining urban green space Privately owned street places The public can see (and often touch), but doesn’t own them

  10. Defining urban green space Privately owned private places Things and places that cannot be seen without invitation

  11. Awareness Complexity Maintenance Costs Challenges Virginia Department of Forestry

  12. Technologies for urban green spaces

  13. Sensing

  14. Botanicalls Sensors speak “for the plant” Data feeds distribute responsibility

  15. Easy Bloom Soil sensor accesses expertise in database Assisting reasoning about environmental conditions

  16. Social networks of cultivation

  17. Myfolia.com Building a database of local knowledge Sharing plant varieties

  18. Landshare.net Making unused land available Creating connections between neighbors

  19. Local mapping

  20. fallenfruit.org “Every day there is food somewhere going to waste. We encourage you to find it, tend and harvest it. If you own property, plant food on your perimeter.” Fallenfruit.org

  21. ParkScan.org Enlisting local volunteers Working towards accountability and transparency

  22. Journey North Reporting small events to map climate change http://www.learner.org/jnorth

  23. Imaging regions

  24. Remote imaging A tool for making charismatic images americanforests.org

  25. “The $50 Million Photos”

  26. Framework: Green spaces as a network

  27. Of distributed food production Farmadelphia - Front Studio

  28. Of ecosystem intervention PlantSF.com

  29. Of institutions and groups City of Seattle Food Bank garden plot

  30. Of new modes of sharing, ownership, and access Guerillagardening.org

  31. In conclusion:Back to the future? Railroad worker cultivating the small victory garden in the Proviso yard, Chicago Jack Delano, 1943. flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179195976

  32. Thanks! Elizabeth Goodman www.confectious.net egoodman@confectious.net

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