Introduction
The central focus among public administrators when sustainability is discussed
What is Sustainability of the environment
Policies that offer a higher quality of life for city residents
What are policies to care for local water resources, trees, and air quality?
A regional membership organization composed of business and civic leaders
Organization that promotes health, wellness, environmentalism, and service in the interest of improving living conditions for individuals and the community
What is Parks Heights Community Health Alliance (PHCHA)?
Research method use to understand the local policy dialogue about urban sustainability in Baltimore
What is Q-methodology?
In 2010, a collection of organizations working on water policy merged
A non-profit organization encouraging people to take a fresh look at living in Baltimore City
What is Live Baltimore?
An AmeriCorps urban service program with initiatives in community development, job training, energy efficiency, and urban farm.
What is Civic Work?
First operational definition of urban sustainability
What is Environmental Sustainability?
One of the several factors that prompt local sustainability advocates to work on the expansion of the city's tree canopy
What is heat?
Targets the commercial corridors in ten city neighborhoods for revitalization and is run by the Baltimore Main Streets Program
What is Baltimore District Specialist (BDS)?
A multi-plot transitional organic farm operating in the city and Baltimore County
What is Five Seeds Farm?
The second operational definition of urban sustainability
What is Sustainability as urban rebuilding?
Bus system operated by the state government
What is Maryland Transit Administration?
Organized as a formal political lobbying organization in order to promote the transit line with city officials and local members of the State Assembly
What is Political Action Committee?
What is Friends of Patterson Park?
Third operational definition of urban sustainability
What is sustainability as civic health and justice?
City's bike program under the Department of Transportation
What is Bike Baltimore?
Ranked sixth in the country for highest number of homicides in the US cities over 100,000 in population
What is Baltimore?
Has established a community garden through the city's adopt-a-lot program and also gardens on privately owned land
What is Baltimore Free Farm?