NW Center for Livable Communities
US HUD
$225,000, 2004--2006
(PIs: F. Wagner, H. Blanco)
Seed funding to start a center to provide assistance for communities in managing
growth, in economic revitalization, and in efforts to become more sustainable
and livable.
Seattle's Chinatown/International District: Transnational
communities, local identities, and the making of place
UW Royalty Research Fund Grant
$33,327, 2002 - current
(PIs: L. Manzo, J. Hou)
Urban Community Gardens: Place Making for Healthy,
Active and Sustainable
Living Landscape Architecture Foundation, Land and Community Design Case Study
Series
$6,650, 5/2005 to 03/2006
(PIs: Jeffrey Hou, Julie Johnson and Laura Lawson (University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign))
While generally acknowledged as a resource for multiple benefits, community
gardens remain an ambiguous land use not completely accepted as a permanent
open space resource. Only a few cities, such as San Francisco and Seattle,
include community gardens as open space in their city planning process. To
make urban community gardens a legitimate and essential land use and open
space type, this study examines the design and development of urban community
gardens as place making for healthy, active and sustainable communities.