Vacant to Vibrant : Creating Successful Green Infrastructure Networks

Albro, Sandra L.

ISBN 10: 1610919009 / ISBN 13: 9781610919005

Published by Island Press, 2019

Seller Inventory # 33970088-n

Synopsis:

Potential insights and inexpensive tools for converting small, vacant lots to community green space. Vacant lots, so often seen as neighborhood blight, have the potential to be a key element of community revitalization. Sandra Albro offers practical insights through her experience leading the five-year Vacant to Vibrant project, which piloted the creation of green infrastructure networks in Gary, Indiana; Cleveland, Ohio; and Buffalo, New York. Vacant to Vibrant provides a point of comparison among the three cities as they adapt old systems to new, green technology. Albro offers insights from every step of the Vacant to Vibrant project, including planning, design, community engagement, implementation, and maintenance successes and challenges of creating a green infrastructure network from vacant lots in neighborhoods. Landscape architects and other professionals whose work involves urban greening will learn new approaches for creating infrastructure networks and facilitating more equitable access to green space.

About the Author: Sandra L. Albro is director of research at the Cleveland Botanic Garden. Much of her work focuses on understanding how improvements to existing soils and addition of plants improve the ecological and social value of vacant urban land. Her topics of interest include stormwater management, low-maintenance plants, and human use of urban green space. In addition to being project manager for Vacant to Vibrant, she is also Project Manager for a US EPA Urban Waters project examining the use of soil remediation and green stormwater infrastructure in an intensively treated Cleveland neighborhood. Albro serves as co-chair for the Cleveland Tree Coalition, a diverse group of organizations implementing the Cleveland Tree Plan, and serves as a board member on the Doan Brook Watershed Partnership and the Clean Ohio Fund Natural Resources Assistance Council.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Vacant to Vibrant : Creating Successful ...
Publisher: Island Press
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New
Edition: 2nd Edition