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Integrating the Environment, the Economy, and Community Health: A Community Health Center’s Initiative to Link Health Benefits to Smart Growth

Peter V. McAvoy, JD, MS, Mary Beth Driscoll, BA and Benjamin J. Gramling, BS

The authors are with the Department of Environmental Health, Sixteenth Street Community Health Center, Milwaukee, Wis.



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  		FIGURE 1—— Participants in the 1999 charrette, or visioning and design workshop, were charged with designing ways to bring high-quality investors and family-supporting jobs back to the community and to reverse the Menomonee River Valley’s historical environmental abuse.

 



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  		FIGURE 2—— The abandoned railroad yard (top photo) was the focus of the 2002 Menomonee River Valley National Design Competition: Natural Landscapes for Living Communities, which attracted nationally recognized, award-winning teams from around the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada. The winning master plan by Wenk Associates of Denver, Colorado (bottom photo), provides both development space for new jobs and recreational opportunities for the community in a setting where environmental damage has been repaired.

 


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  		FIGURE 3—— Sustainable guidelines for the Menomonee Valley, which identify sustainability objectives for developers and property owners and offer practical suggestions for achieving high performance green architecture.

 




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