Green Schemes

A new report from the University of Illinois at Chicago’s City Design Center has produced a publication illustrating ideas for green development in the community of Garfield Park. Green Schemes: Sustainable Urbanism for Garfield Park [PDF Download] presents 80 concepts, with designs for urban agriculture, public ways, building technology, manufacturing, transportation and other planning elements that address four scales of development: building, street, neighborhood, and the two-square-mile community.

The designers chose Garfield Park as a mixed-income neighborhood with many underused properties. They describe the area’s current and potential assets, including winding boulevards, Victorian housing, a business district primed for revitalization, industrial buildings, a rapid transit line, and Garfield Park — one of the city’s largest parks, featuring a restored botanical conservatory.

Twenty concepts from “Green Schemes” will be on view through April 20 in “Green Architecture,” an exhibition at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, Ind.

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