Mapping Environmental Injustice in Detroit
*Land acknowledgement: Detroit occupies the contemporary and ancestral homelands of three Anishinaabe nations of the Council of Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi.
Mapping overlay excercises to determined the locations of marginalized communities of color at risk for urban heat island, air pollution and historically opressive processes such as redlining. Equitable landscapes will take a systematic design approach to addressing individual community environmental justice needs and its methodology can be applied to cities outside of Detroit.
*Land acknowledgement: Detroit occupies the contemporary and ancestral homelands of three Anishinaabe nations of the Council of Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi.
Mapping overlay excercises to determined the locations of marginalized communities of color at risk for urban heat island, air pollution and historically opressive processes such as redlining. Equitable landscapes will take a systematic design approach to addressing individual community environmental justice needs and its methodology can be applied to cities outside of Detroit.
Detroit Baseline Map
+90% Black neighborhoods (2019)
Historically redlined neighborhoods
High risk CO2 / Air Pollution
Urban Heat Island (high risk)
Detroit neighborhood zones facing extreme environmental trauma and harm (resultant from mapping overlays)