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Cities Are Depaving for a Cooler Future
-Lucy Sherriff, Nexus Media News
“Replacing asphalt with greenery has benefits beyond lowering temperatures and reducing flood risk. It’s also associated with lower stress levels, a reduction in noise, fewer traffic-related injuries and even restoration of local biodiversity.”
Combating Climate Issues Through Depaving
-Monica Eng, AXIOS Chicago, September 20, 2022
“A new organization called Depave Chicago aims to chip away at a major component of our flooding problem — asphalt.”
To Make Cities More Livable, Get Rid of Pavement
-Diana Lonescu, Planetizen, July 14, 2021
“In spite of historic resistance to the removal of infrastructure, "the severe impact of highways and pavements on the health of land, water, and people are giving us a reason to adopt a new way of thinking”
What Chicago is Doing—and Can Do—to Prevent a Disastrous Flood
-Whet Moser in Chicago Magazine, Aug 30 2017
McGuire's ideas are similar to ones the city and Gang have been working on—replacing paved surfaces with permeable ones—but she's identified underground sand deposits that could serve as natural reservoirs, and prioritizes the renovation of surface infrastructure where it will work best with what lies underneath.
A cooler future means a world with less pavement
-Lucy Sheriff, The Nation, 8/31/2023
“We want to bring it to the city’s attention that this is a critical part of climate adaptation and solving social inequity,” McGuire said.
Depave and an army of volunteers brings city spaces to life
-Paxton Rothwell, BikePotland, July 29, 2022
“Asphalt covers so much of our city. As our urban canopy continues to dwindle away and as summers get hotter, it is up to the community to decide that there are better uses for our parking lots and paved places.”
Chicago: Flooding Solutions & Alternatives
-Zachary Edelson, urbanNext, June 01, 2017
“Environmental justice communities are suffering from a lot of pavement-related issues,” said Mary Pat McGuire, a professor of architecture at the University of Illinois, and the founder of Depave Chicago. “We’re trying to bring attention to it so that the city will start treating this as a critical part of climate adaptation and social justice.”
Chicago digs deep to fight flooding
-Zach Edelson in Architect’s Newspaper (Online edition), October 24, 2016
Until recently Chicago’s answer to the problem has been an infrastructure project no less than epic—read costly—in scale. But one landscape architect is leading an effort to change how the city can unlock its hidden potential for storm water management.”