The dirt on Depave Chicago
Where to Depave Chicago?
Depaving places like underutilized parking lots, school playgrounds, abandoned vacant land, as well as streets is key to this process.
Parking lots and paved areas exist in all shapes and sizes throughout the Chicago region. Large paved areas are concentrated around waterways, industrial, and commercial sites, while smaller paved areas exist in school grounds and church parking lots. All of these are important sites for depaving.
Depave Chicago envisions our cities transformed—creating green where there’s gray—everywhere children play, people breathe, families and friends gather, tree roots nourish soil, rainwater touches earth, and where animals, insects, and birds flourish.