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SXSW Eco 2015 PLACE BY DESIGN FINALISTS: URBAN STRATEGY
CITY OF AUSTIN NEIGHBORHOOD
PARTNERING PROGRAM
Presenter: Justin Gobabai,
Neighborhood Partnering Program
Manager of City | Austin's Public
Works Department Austin, TX
From green streets to community gardens,
Austin's Neighborhood Partnering Program assists
neighborhood groups to develop, resource, and
execute small- to medium-sized improvement
projects on City property or right-of-way.
HOMEGR/OWN
Presenter: Timothy McCollow, HOME
GR/OWN Program Manager | City of
Milwaukee Office of Environmental
Sustainability
Milwaukee, WI
The City of Milwaukee's HOME GR/OWN
Initiative & UW-Milwaukee's Community
Design Solutions have partnered over the last
2 years to inject design and placemaking into
the transformation of over 20 vacant lots into
sustainable pocket parks and orchards.
LIVING COMMUNITY: A VISION FOR
FIRST HILL
Presenter: Amanda Sturgeon, Executive
Director, International Living Future
Institute
Seattle, WA
This project applies the Living Community
Challenge framework to create a new vision
and reality for the neighborhood based on the
characteristics of a forest–namely diversity,
beauty, symbiosis, place-centricity, and waste/
water/energy-positivity.
GREAT STREETS INITIATIVE
Presenter: Helen Leung, LA-Más
Los Angeles, CA
LA-Más piloted a short-term, creative place-making
project that re-imagines a car centric community
with a pedestrian-oriented street. The low-cost,
high-impact strategy was realized in a few months
with invaluable support from community and
government partners. This project features creative
community partnerships, interdepartmental policy
investigations and a precedent that will inspire more
Great Streets across the city.
