DETROIT AND THE LANDSCAPE TIPPING POINT
BY ZACH MORTICE
The abandoned Michigan Central Station in Detroit. Image courtesy of Zach Mortice.
In a city beset by a nearly incomparable foreclosure crisis and 20 square miles of vacant land, there?s been a growing understanding that landscape architecture and Detroit are perfect for each other. But in 2017, the city will unveil a handful of new proposals on how the discipline can grow back healthy urbanism in the Motor City.
Detroit announced early this month that, after an RFP process, it is awarding a total of $1.6 million across four project teams to plan landscape and streetscape improvements including green stormwater management and infrastructure upgrades. Each team will focus on a group of neighborhoods, moving beyond the overarching vision set forth by the Detroit Future City framework into a ?fine grain of detail,? says Alexa Bush, a landscape architect with the City of Detroit. These four initiatives follow the city?s first landscape improvement RFP (for the Livernois/McNichols area) with more to come next year. The four areas are composed of smaller neighborhoods?walkable and bikeable quarter-square-mile districts?where residents could one day get all their basic commercial and service necessities after a short jaunt through their neighborhood. City administrators chose these places largely for their strong and intact building stock with vibrant commercial activity. They wanted to ?build off areas of strength? so that successive waves of development can radi...
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