Broadway East Greenprint
Broadway East Greenprint
Baltimore, MD
Baltimore’s neighborhoods are too often a shorthand for late 20th century urban decline, decades of disinvestment and high rates of vacancy. Rejecting this as an inevitable narrative, The Broadway East Greenprint provides a landscape-driven framework for an historic Baltimore neighborhood through the strategic lenses of resilient watershed planning, successional canopy management, soil regeneration, and hyper-local understanding of community and place.
Through an integrated community planning effort, the project takes a micro to macro phased approach to the planning of vacant lots, Baltimore’s iconic alley network, and primary/secondary streetscapes into a biodiverse, hospitable, and distinctly Baltimorean open space network.
By introducing a wide range of adaptable prototypes for neighborhood landscape and public space improvements, the Greenprint works towards incremental improvements for Broadway East including: welcoming, accessible, and beautiful community spaces; increased canopy coverage with cleaner and cooler air; as well as soil improvement, impervious surface reductions, and stormwater capture to reduce neighborhood flooding impacts.
In addition to providing a framework for immediate, near term, and long-term landscape improvements, the Greenprint also helps structure community participation through an organized neighborhood ‘green team’ as well as workforce development initiatives for its residents including arboriculture and landscape construction training.
Project timeline: 2019 - Present
Client Team: New Broadway East Community Association, American Communities Trust, The 6th Branch
Scope: Landscape Framework Plan
Size: 282 acres
Design Partners: CityScape Engineering
Grants & Funding: 2019 & 2020 Chesapeake Bay Trust Green Street, Green Jobs, Green Towns Awards; Maryland Department of Housing & Community Development; Baltimore Environmental Equity Partnership (BEEP) award from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
