BY ZACH MORTICE
Bloody Run Creek Greenway Redevelopment in Detroit by Ceara O’Leary (2012?2014 Rose Fellow). Image courtesy of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center. 
The venerable Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship?pairing early career designers with nonprofits and community organizations to develop equitable housing and open space?has opened to landscape architects for the first time. Enterprise will award two of its five fellowships to landscape architects, and applications are due July 9. New fellows will be announced in early 2018.
Christopher Scott, the program director for the Rose Fellowship, says Enterprise wanted landscape designers to take part in these three-year fellowships because over the past several years, ?there?s been a national dialogue around open space movements [as] a catalyst for equity.? Beyond pure public policy, there is growing awareness in the community development sector that the design of open space plays a key role in the health and vitality of neighborhoods. And landscape design, he says, is a way to defuse the endless gentrification paradox attached to the redevelopment of some low-income communities: how to improve the public realm for everyone without egging on displacement. Quality landscape design can create equally accessible public amenities available to all; ideally they are ones that have been crafted with a broad range of the community?s input. ?I think there?s an element there for landscape architects to be a commun...