Chicago has received a lot of kudos in national and international media about how green it is. While pols and city boosters tout all of our green roofs, planted street medians, urban tree-planting endeavors and green buildings, the SAIC mapmakers are finding a different story in the neighborhoods where we acutally live.

Part of the process of our project is to document what is on the ground and do the historical research to find out how these neighborhoods come to be what they are today. The parameters set forth in the greenmap international project makes this task straight forward. We investigate the triple bottom line of sustainability, economic development, social responsibility and the natural environment.read more »