O'Donnell Park: Enhancing Downtown Milwaukee’s Economic, Environmental and Social Networks through Sustainable Design

Abstract

This thesis begins to address, how does a city provide essential resources for a city in a public urban space? A question designers have asked themselves since the beginning of urban design. In this day and age currently, we are getting better at answering this issue, providing urban society with food water, power in ways that have never been done before. However, is what is society doing currently enough? Research begs to differ showing two major problems: First current trends are unsustainable and will not last. Secondly, if fallowing areas of resources are not appealing, users will not use them. Fortunately, there also are a set of solutions or applications, from organic agriculture to integrated sustainable solutions such as Aquaponics that could be applied to the problems. Functioning in an aesthetically appealing way that people will flock to, creating a sustainable ecosystem that is both operational and visual appealing. Asking the question, how might an urban community facilitate a sustainable ecosystem with regards and allocations to community needs both physically and aesthetically.