Project Team

• David Bieri - Architecture & Urban Planning

Project Summary

In 2011 the Graham Institute partnered with the non-profit organization Data Driven Detroit (D3) to initiate the Detroit Sustainability Indicators Project. The overall project consisted of six U-M faculty-led research teams that worked to develop data, tools, and analysis to help decision makers in Detroit consider sustainability in their planning and redevelopment efforts.

This project developed a new sustainability index that provided further evidence that “greenness” correlates to increased urban quality of life. Unlike other indices, this new approach uses comprehensive, economically-meaningful, and comparable measures of sustainability that make it suitable for policy-making in Detroit and other cities.

This project received a $40,000 Detroit Sustainability Indicators Project Grant in 2011.