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Reinventing Detroit: Reclaiming Grayfields—New Metrics in Evaluating Urban Environments

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  • Jon Burley

    (School of Planning Design and Construction, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA)

  • Gina Deyoung

    (School of Planning Design and Construction, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA)

  • Shawn Partin

    (School of Planning Design and Construction, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA)

  • Jason Rokos

    (School of Planning Design and Construction, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA)

Abstract

Planners, designers, citizens, and governmental agencies are interested in creating environments that are sustainable and fulfill a wide range of economic, ecological, aesthetic, functional, and cultural expectations for stakeholders. There are numerous approaches and proposals to create such environments. One vision is the 1934 “Broadacre City” proposed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Taliesin, Wisconsin area that was never implemented. Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision integrated transportation, housing, commercial, agricultural, and natural areas in a highly diverse pattern forming a vast urban savanna complex. He also applied his “Broadacre City” idea to the 1942 Cooperative Homesteads Community Project in Detroit, Michigan, another un-built project. This vision concerning the composition of the urban environment may be conceptually realized in the ongoing gray-field reclamation in suburban Detroit, Michigan. Recent science-based investigations, concerning the metrics to measure and evaluate the quality of designed spaces, suggest that this “Broadacre City” approach may have great merit and is highly preferred over past spatial treatments (p ≤ 0.05). These metrics explain 67 to 80% of the variance concerning stakeholder expectations and are highly definitive (p

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  • Jon Burley & Gina Deyoung & Shawn Partin & Jason Rokos, 2011. "Reinventing Detroit: Reclaiming Grayfields—New Metrics in Evaluating Urban Environments," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 2(4), pages 1-10, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jchals:v:2:y:2011:i:4:p:45-54:d:14166
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    1. Aimee Felstead & Kevin Thwaites & James Simpson, 2019. "A Conceptual Framework for Urban Commoning in Shared Residential Landscapes in the UK," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(21), pages 1-24, November.
    2. Bin Wen & Jon Bryan Burley, 2020. "Expert Opinion Dimensions of Rural Landscape Quality in Xiangxi, Hunan, China: Principal Component Analysis and Factor Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(4), pages 1-18, February.
    3. Jon Bryan Burley, 2018. "The Emergence of Landscape Urbanism: A Chronological Criticism Essay," Land, MDPI, vol. 7(4), pages 1-17, November.
    4. James Simpson & Kevin Thwaites & Megan Freeth, 2019. "Understanding Visual Engagement with Urban Street Edges along Non-Pedestrianised and Pedestrianised Streets Using Mobile Eye-Tracking," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(15), pages 1-17, August.

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