Tampa’s Greenprinting Initiative
Trent Green, Architecture, Susan Greenbaum, Anthropology, Naomi Oliver, Florida Center for Community Design and Research, Mayor's Beautification Program and the City of Tampa. (Collab)
Description:
Tampa's Greenprinting Initiative (TGI) is a ten-year project for building residents' capacity to steward neighborhood development starting with revitalization of a close-to-home park. Parks are critical in redeveloping communities by encouraging participation of local resident sin protecting and enhancing neighborhood resources. Over ten years, TGI will work with a minimum of ten Tampa Enterprise Community/Enterprise Zone (EC/EZ) neighborhoods' residents to develop and apply their skills to park revitalization. Skills developed and practiced through TGI include needs assessment, asset identification, planning, advocacy, volunteer recruitment and organizing and fundraising.
USF's School of Architecture & Community Design (SACD), Florida Center for Community Design & Research (FCCD+R) and the Department of Anthropology will partner with Tampa's neighborhood residents, Mayor's Beautification Program (MBP) and the City of Tampa to create a model for assessing and mapping community assets and open space needs. Results will be employed in helping each neighborhood to develop a vision to address those needs. Over the next ten years, application of this model in ten neighborhoods will contribute to significant improvements to the open space resources in Tampa's inner city, but more importantly, the building of resident capacity to address additional issues they have identified as critical to their quality of life.
Contact Person: Trent Green
Funding for Academic Year: 2003-04