UWM students are helping create small parks to provide greenspace in urban neighborhoods. (Photo courtesy of City of Milwaukee)
Students and faculty in Community Design Solutions, a part of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, developed renderings such as this plan for a park at 38th and Clarke. (UWM Photo)
UWM Community Design Solutions students and residents collaborate with the city in developing designs for the parks. (Photo courtesy of City of Milwaukee)
Students and faculty image the parks as places where residents can gather for movies and other activities. (UWM Photo)
This drawing shows a plan for a park on Metcalfe Street. (UWM Photo)
Walnut Way Conservation Corp, Energy Exchange and dozens of community residents are helping build the parks. Here, members of Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church and local residents ]work on plantings. (Photo courtesy of City of Milwaukee)
Plantings at Ezekiel-Gillespie Park help turn a vacant lot into a welcoming urban green space. (UWM Photo)
Ezekiel Park on the north side of Milwaukee is one of the parks that helped the project win a SXSW (South by Southwest) Eco Place by Design_Urban Strategy category award in October. (UWM Photo)
UW-Milwaukee’s Community Design Solutions is part of an effort that will result in 20 new “pocket parks,” created from 28 vacant lots on the northwest side of Milwaukee.
The project, which won the SXSW (South by Southwest) Eco Place by Design_Urban Strategy category award in October, is part of the City of Milwaukee’s HOMEGR/OWN Partners for Places Initiative. Community Design Solutions includes students and faculty from UW-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
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