In order to build a more sustainable and socially-just community, decisions regarding urban planning should engage diverse stakeholders. Working with the Eastside Community Network, a non-profit community development organization, a Dow Distinguished Awards student team is co-designing a green infrastructure plan with community members along the Mack Avenue Business District. The team is utilizing Land.info, a three-dimensional urban design visualization software tool, to aid in designing community green space. The project focuses on empowering the community members through a series of workshops to learn how to use the visualization tool and co-design community space. They hope to use the software to provide a common language for collaborative designing and decision-making and hope the software can be expanded for use in other cases.

• Location: Detroit, Michigan
• Disciplines Represented: Engineering, Business, Urban and Regional Planning, Information, Landscape Architecture
• Project Team: Kidus Admassu, Ayush Awadhiya, Gwen Gell, Saebom (April) Kwon, Shannon Sylte (Team Lead)
• Faculty Advisor: Mark Lindquist, School for Environment and Sustainability and Robert Goodspeed, Taubman College of Urban and Regional Planning
• Project Client/Sponsor: Richard Ackerman, Eastside Community Network

This project is related to a 2018 Dow Masters Fellows project

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