1. Designing For Urban Green Space Elizabeth Goodman University of California, Berkeley School of Information

2. Urban green space is not “natural” San Francisco Historical Photo Collection - San Francisco Public Library

3. Design is a form of politics Library of Congress What we want for green space can tell us a lot about what we want and fear for our cities. What public visits the park? Whose community is in the garden?

4. Urban green spaces are a technology …for what end? Air Trees Eco Boulevard

5. The benefits of city green space Public health Opportunity for exercise Asthma mitigation Psychological well-being Environmental remediation Storm runoff reduction Pollution absorption Wildlife protection Noise buffering Neighborhood stability Building social cohesion to address local concerns Early education, adult job training

6. Defining urban green space

7. “Urban jewels” Celebrated spaces Publicly owned and accessible Defining urban green space

8. Ordinary small places Accessed mostly by “the locals” Defining urban green space Neighborhood spaces

9. Privately owned street places The public can see (and often touch), but doesn’t own them Defining urban green space

10. Privately owned private places Things and places that cannot be seen without invitation Defining urban green space

11. Challenges Awareness Complexity Maintenance Costs Virginia Department of Forestry

12. Technologies for urban green spaces

13. Sensing

14. Sensors speak “for the plant” Data feeds distribute responsibility Botanicalls

15. Soil sensor accesses expertise in database Assisting reasoning about environmental conditions Easy Bloom

16. Social networks of cultivation

17. Building a database of local knowledge Sharing plant varieties Myfolia.com

18. Landshare.net Making unused land available Creating connections between neighbors

19. Local mapping

20. fallenfruit.org “Every day there is food somewhere going to waste. We encourage you to find it, tend and harvest it. If you own property, plant food on your perimeter.” Fallenfruit.org

21. ParkScan.org Enlisting local volunteers Working towards accountability and transparency

22. Journey North Reporting small events to map climate change http://www.learner.org/jnorth

23. Imaging regions

24. Remote imaging A tool for making charismatic images americanforests.org

25. “The $50 Million Photos”

26. Framework: Green spaces as a network

27. Of distributed food production Farmadelphia - Front Studio

28. Of ecosystem intervention PlantSF.com

29. Of institutions and groups City of Seattle Food Bank garden plot

30. Of new modes of sharing, ownership, and access Guerillagardening.org

31. In conclusion: Back to the future? Railroad worker cultivating the small victory garden in the Proviso yard, Chicago Jack Delano, 1943. flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179195976

32. Thanks! Elizabeth Goodman www.confectious.net egoodman @ confectious.net