%0 Journal Article
%T Reinventing Detroit: Reclaiming Grayfields¡ªNew Metrics in Evaluating Urban Environments
%A Jon Burley
%A Gina Deyoung
%A Shawn Partin
%A Jason Rokos
%J Challenges
%D 2011
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/challe2040045
%X Planners, designers, citizens, and governmental agencies are interested in creating environments that are sustainable and fulfill a wide range of economic, ecological, aesthetic, functional, and cultural expectations for stakeholders. There are numerous approaches and proposals to create such environments. One vision is the 1934 ¡°Broadacre City¡± proposed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Taliesin, Wisconsin area that was never implemented. Frank Lloyd Wright¡¯s vision integrated transportation, housing, commercial, agricultural, and natural areas in a highly diverse pattern forming a vast urban savanna complex. He also applied his ¡°Broadacre City¡± idea to the 1942 Cooperative Homesteads Community Project in Detroit, Michigan, another un-built project. This vision concerning the composition of the urban environment may be conceptually realized in the ongoing gray-field reclamation in suburban Detroit, Michigan. Recent science-based investigations, concerning the metrics to measure and evaluate the quality of designed spaces, suggest that this ¡°Broadacre City¡± approach may have great merit and is highly preferred over past spatial treatments (p ¡Ü 0.05). These metrics explain 67 to 80% of the variance concerning stakeholder expectations and are highly definitive (p < 0.001).
%K landscape planning
%K landscape urbanism
%K landscape architecture
%U http://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/2/4/45