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Becoming Greater Through Greening: How one Milwaukee initiative is creating better communities one vacant lot at a time Urban Studies 600 Capstone Seminar Allison Sweere Introduction Research Focus: A nalyze how Milwaukees HOME

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Becoming Greater Through Greening: How one Milwaukee initiative is creating better communities one vacant lot at a time

Urban Studies 600 – Capstone Seminar Allison Sweere

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Introduction

  • Research Focus: Analyze how Milwaukee’s HOME

GR/OWN initiative is contributing to Milwaukee’s

  • verall goal of becoming an eco-city.
  • HOME GR/OWN
  • How it started
  • Mission
  • Projects
  • Significance: Little reflection has been done on the

use of vacant land in Milwaukee or HOME GR/OWN specifically

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Research Question & Framework

  • Research Question: What is the nature of HOME

GR/OWN's goals and interests?

  • Where are they rooted?
  • Why is an initiative like this

important to Milwaukee?

  • Framework:
  • Sustainable Development / "Planners

Triangle" (Campbell, 1996)

  • Environmental Justice / Distributive and

Procedural (Hillman, 2002)

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Setting & Historical Context

  • Local Context
  • Rustbelt city
  • Foreclosure crisis, vacant lot stock
  • Green Turn
  • ReFresh Milwaukee Sustainability Initiatives
  • Northeast side initiative
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Methodology & Data

  • Case Study on Milwaukee's HOME GR/OWN initiative
  • Archival Sources
  • 2014 Milwaukee Summit, 2016 Partnering with

Nature Webinar, City Department Webpages, 2018 ReFresh Milwaukee Progress Update, 2017 Sustainability Newsletter, Common Council Meeting minutes, various News Articles

  • Sources analyzed to find language/common themes

that fits into sustainable development framework.

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Literature Review

  • Community Development
  • Power Relations (Heynen, et al.)
  • Empowerment (Heckert)
  • Vacant Lot Revitalization
  • Urban Agriculture (Brown & Jameton)
  • Urban Farming (Slabinkski)
  • Greening and health (Beyer)
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Findings & Discussion

  • Findings
  • Economic: job creation, market values
  • Environmental: urban farming, storm water management, parks/greening
  • Social: community participation, communitydevelopment
  • Justice: northwest-sideinitiative, TIN, public-private partnership
  • Discussion:
  • Meets all three requirements of sustainable development
  • Public-Private relations
  • Limitations
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Conclusion

  • HOME GR/OWN is benefitting in many

ways

  • Future Policy Implications
  • More departments
  • Education
  • Larger service area