Resilience for All: Striving for Equity Through Community-Driven Design by Barbara Brown Wilson

Author:Barbara Brown Wilson [Wilson, Barbara Brown]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Architecture, General, Urban & Land Use Planning, Urban, sociology, Landscape
ISBN: 9781610918923
Google: WuhPDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2018-05-24T23:41:09.355520+00:00

Detroit has so much to offer in terms of its people, its history, and its land, but the city’s residents are constantly hearing the sad story recounted earlier in the chapter instead of the story of the vibrant place described in the DFC plan. Both stories are true, which is why it concerns so many adults—who know why Detroit is worth fighting for—when they hear youth discussing their desire to put down roots elsewhere.

The Detroit Works Project, which began in 2010, was the first part of this visioning effort—an engagement process that produced the DFC Framework and wove together one of the most important networks informing and shaping Detroit today. Detroit Works experienced some challenges early on—partially because the name led many residents to think it was a jobs program, and partially because the City did not sufficiently acknowledge local knowledge and the situated experience of being a Detroiter. As one local community organizer explained, “the City has never been good at engaging residents, so it was literally taken out of their hands by the funders,14 and put into the hands of community leaders, who have done engagement and outreach throughout the city.” Co-director Dan Pitera knew this could not come from one group or one part of Detroit, but needed to be governed by “a board of advisors consisting of people or organizations who at their core worked through engaging communities and thought about all of Detroit not just a small part of Detroit.” This group was originally called the Process Leaders, during the Detroit Works 2.0 planning process. Pitera explains the importance of this group:

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