Documenting Cues to Care in CDAD’s “Urban

Homesteads” and “Naturescapes”

&

Documenting and Demonstrating Neighborhood Care

Dynamics in CDAD’s “Urban Homesteads” and

“Naturescapes”

with

Detroit Vacant Property Campaign, Michigan Community Resources

Margaret Dewar Joan Nassauer Eric Dueweke

Professor Professor Lecturer

medewar@umich.edu nassauer@umich.edu ericdue@umich.edu

Urban & Regional Planning SNRE Urban and Regional Planning

May 24, 2012

What are “cues to care”?

A Brightmoor blot

Why this project?

Study area in Brightmoor : ~4900 parcels.

Study area in the Far Eastside: ~4,000 parcels.

TOTAL: ~8900 parcels.

Need a corrected

context map

Detroit Residential

Parcel Survey data

Google Street (2009)

Field survey 2011

Individual residential structural conditions

Cues to care •Street, curb, sidewalk, alley condition, litter •Easement trees, mowing •Private property blotting, trees, hedges, ornaments, mowing, flowers, fences, storage, dumping •Structure painting, repair, condition •Neighborhood signs

Block face character

data and map

Blockface observation instrument

Urban design

example

Analysis of cues to care in landscape

dynamics Urban design

example

Urban design

example

Urban design

example

2009 windshield

survey

CONCEPTS INSTRUMENTS DATA SOURCES - 2011 PRIMARY PRODUCTS

APPLIED PRODUCTS

Reinforce

residents’

land steward-

ship.

Show

equitable

approaches to

shrinking the

city.

Analysis of cues to care in housing & land use

Suggest

distinctions in

CDAD’s

categories of

places.

Quantifying Care and Neglect: Cases and Variables

- Cases were identified at two nested spatial scales:

- The individual parcel scale - Including structures and landscapes

- The block scale, aggregating individual parcels - Including the block face and the entire block.

We measured 95 characteristics indicating cues to care or neglect for each of the ~8,900 parcels

Quantifying Care and Neglect: Variables classes

- Parcels were classified by land use:

- Residential Parcels: - a broad array of questions about structural stability and

landscape quality.

- Vacant Land: Visible environmental phenomena and negative and positive

cues to care.

- Non-Residential Parcels: - potential contagion of care or neglect in nearby residential

parcels.

Detroit Residential

Parcel Survey data

Google Street (2009)

Field survey 2011

Individual residential structural conditions

Cues to care •Street, curb, sidewalk, alley condition, litter •Easement trees, mowing •Private property blotting, trees, hedges, ornaments, mowing, flowers, fences, storage, dumping •Structure painting, repair, condition •Neighborhood signs

Block face character

data and map

Blockface observation instrument

Urban design

example

Analysis of cues to care in landscape

dynamics Urban design

example

Urban design

example

Urban design

example

2009 windshield

survey

CONCEPTS INSTRUMENTS DATA SOURCES - 2011 PRIMARY PRODUCTS

APPLIED PRODUCTS

Reinforce

residents’

land steward-

ship.

Show

equitable

approaches to

shrinking the

city.

Analysis of cues to care in housing & land use

Suggest

distinctions in

CDAD’s

categories of

places.

Data Cleaning Example Master file parcels: Far Eastside

Data Cleaning Example Master file parcels: Far Eastside

We developed and applied a detailed physical assessment instrument (95 variables) at the individual parcel and block scale for two predominantly vacant areas of the city, the Far East side (n= 4000) and Brightmoor (n= 4900 ). Two student projects were completed. Two related proposals were supported.

Data 2011

Google

(2009), Bing

and Field

survey

Block

face

character

mapping

Blockface observation instrument

•Cues to Care

•Residential Structural Conditions

(RPS)

Vernacular

Commercial

Development,

Cooper & Nassauer

JOLA, In Prep.

Analysis: cues to care

in landscape dynamics.

Investigating home

dweller parcel scale ,

public block scale soc

capital & public block

scale financial capital

cues

Sustainable

Neighborhood Design

for Legacy Cities

(SND-LC) revisits

LEEDND. May 2012.

SNRE masters

project

Green

Infrastructure

Analysis and

block and parcel

scale design

interventions.

LEAP and SNRE

masters project

INSTRUMENTS DATA & data

gathering

protocol

PRIMARY

PRODUCTS

APPLIED

PRODUCTS

Data QA

•Rectify with

city assessors

parcel data

•Internal

check across

data scales

(parcel to

block)

DATA

rectification

& QA

DDD

And

Code for

America:

Mobile

app.

Shell

program

SNRE seed grant

Mobile App

concept, LEAP

testing

Analysis: differences

between the two study

areas in housing

condition & blotting,

home ownership & types

of care, adjacency of

communal & private

stewardship or blight

Nassauer

research

papers

Dewar

research

papers

NSF National

socio-

environmental

synthesis center

urban ecology

and planning

project

Landscape

and Urban

Planning

theme

issue. 2013.

Assoc of

Collegiate

Schls of

Plan.

Paper.

2012

SNRE Seed Grant: Developing an Application for Dynamic Data Collection in Detroit Neighborhoods Joan Nassauer, Marcus Jones, Danny Power

The Application Concept • Location Determined by GPS

• Comparison to 2009 – Google Streetview

• Structure Conditions

• Lot conditions & Maintenance

• Other Rated Parcels

Developing an Application for Dynamic Data Collection in Detroit Neighborhoods

Security and Accuracy in the Application After neighborhood people enter data or update data, it will be completely

confidential and no one will be able to see it until a data administrator checks the

quality and appropriateness of the data. The geodatabase will store spatial data in

a centralized location. Administrators can create a multiuser access and editing

platform, while also providing various rules and user relationships to access the

data.

STRENGTHENING SHRINKING CITIES: enhancing social capital & ecological sustainability in Detroit neighborhoods

Caroline Bergelin, MLA Ayehlet Cooper, MLA Marcus Jones, MUP/MS Desirae Hoffman, MS Fan Huang, MLA Danny Power, MLA Julia Raskin, MUP/MS University of Michigan | Student Capstone Presentation | 2012

parcel-by-parcel data collection to survey landscape care & vacancy, using: + GoogleMaps Street View lab work + field checks

data [4]

DATA GATHERING

field work lab work

vacancy / care spectrum

(Documenting Care and Commitment to Place in the Community Development Advocates Nassauer and

Eric Dueweke, contact: nassauer@umich.edu)

LEED-ND GIB description of category [17]

LEED for Neighborhood Development [GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE & BUILDINGS: GIB]

USGBC Intent

to use landscaping that provides infiltration and to encourage green building practices

Green Infrastructure & Buildings Credit Examples: GIB Credit 1: Certified Green Buildings GIB Credit 3: Building Water Efficiency GIB Credit 11: On-Site Renewable Energy Sources

LEED-ND GIB credit + site design [19]

LEED-ND for Shrinking Cities [GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE & BUILDINGS: CREDIT 8]

STORMWATER MANAGEMENT: preserve contiguous patches and corridors of vacant land to serve as receiver of stormwater runoff without investment in costly LID technologies

Green infrastructure

Distributing stormwater management across the landscape

Special considerations for Detroit and the Lower Eastside

Professors Joan Iverson Nassauer. Joshua Newell, Ming Xu

nassauer@umich.edu

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nassauer/lab.html

Burnsville, MN Barr Engineering Chicago, IL Joan Nassauer St. Paul, MN Nassauer Lab

Stephanie Austin, Sarah Giese, Lin Lin, Bin Shao. Yi Wang

We developed and applied a detailed physical assessment instrument (95 variables) at the individual parcel and block scale for two predominantly vacant areas of the city, the Far East side (n= 4000) and Brightmoor (n= 4900 ). Two student projects were completed. Two related proposals were supported.

Data 2011

Google

(2009), Bing

and Field

survey

Block

face

character

mapping

Blockface observation instrument

•Cues to Care

•Residential Structural Conditions

(RPS)

Vernacular

Commercial

Development,

Cooper & Nassauer

JOLA, In Prep.

Analysis: cues to care

in landscape dynamics.

Investigating home

dweller parcel scale ,

public block scale soc

capital and public block

scale financial capital

cues

Sustainable

Neighborhood Design

for Legacy Cities

(SND-LC) revisits

LEEDND. May 2012.

SNRE masters

project

Green

Infrastructure

Analysis and

block and parcel

scale design

interventions.

LEAP and SNRE

masters project

INSTRUMENTS DATA & data

gathering

protocol

PRIMARY

PRODUCTS

APPLIED

PRODUCTS

Data QA

•Rectify with

city assessors

parcel data

•Internal

check across

data scales

(parcel to

block)

DATA

rectification

& QA

DDD

And

Code for

America:

Mobile

app.

Shell

program

SNRE seed grant

Mobile App

concept

Analysis: differences between the two study

areas in housing condition & blotting,

home ownership & types of care, adjacency of communal & private stewardship or blight

Nassauer

research

papers

Dewar

research

papers

NSF National

socio-

environmental

synthesis center

urban ecology

and planning

project

Landscape

and Urban

Planning

theme

issue. 2013.

Assoc of

Collegiate

Schls of

Plan.

Paper.

2012

Questions?

The National

Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center

Annapolis, md

launching November, 2011

Margaret Palmer, Director

THE NATIONAL

SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL SYNTHESIS

CENTER, ANNAPOLIS, MD

The National Socio-

Environmental Synthesis

Center is dedicated to

creating synthetic,

actionable science

related to the structure,

functioning, and

sustainability of socio-

environmental systems

Synthesis to link understanding, planning, and management of urban ecosystems in China, America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. Wei-Ning Xiang and Joan Nassauer. A two-year project involving 25 urban designers and ecologists, beginning this summer.