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Baltimore Infill Survey
Sections of Baltimore City (ie vacant lots and buildings) represent a huge and flexible resource for new and innovative reanimation. The Baltimore Infill Survey is a Flickr-based site that has been set up as a forum to discuss how this resource may be used. You are invited to participate in this discussion. Just download the image at www.flickr.com/photos/baltimoreinfillsurvey/ and alter it with a possible vision for how these spaces can be used again. Any and all ideas from the very practical to the purely hypothetical are encouraged. The photograph is of a middle of the block site (no longer existent as pictured) including occupied and vacant homes and vacant lots. After you have modified your image just send it with any accompanying text to gkachadourian@promotionandarts.com. Your image and the accompanying text will be posted. This is an ad hoc project that is being coordinated under the auspices of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and the Baltimore Design Conversation. CommentsWould you like to comment?Sign up for a free account, or sign in (if you're already a member). |
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rjane999 says:
Work with existing groups such as Civic Works and/or hire local people for crews who would deconstruct as much as possible, then demolish the remaining buildings...find a suitable way to reuse the material, could it be ground and reformed into bricks for new construction, pavement or roads? Nurture the land and plant, plant, plant...trees, flowers, native species and organic vegetable gardens...plan eco-friendly, bike pedestrian friendly city living /shopping spaces and what a great idea to incorporate RE plants to serve energy needs in the surrounding area! Use all projects as learning training experiences particularly for under served populations creating green enterprises in recycling/upcycling (including composting), bike repair, garden centers, green roof, green construction trades and RE skills etc. especially for those who are committed to staying in their communities.
In the words of Thomas Starrs:
“The solution, it seems to me, is for renewable energy advocates to spend less time talking to our families, friends and neighbors about the dire consequences of continued fossil-fuel dependence, and more time talking about the extraordinary opportunities associated with a post-petroleum, renewable-fueled, sustainable energy future. We need to paint a picture of a prettier place, one that will be cleaner and safer to our children, and for our children’s children.”
Thomas Starrs
Solar Today, Nov/Dec 2005
Thanks, for offering the paint brush!
Jane Hager, EA
www.prsea.org
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )