{"id":363744,"date":"2017-03-21T02:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grist.org\/?post_type=grist-50-profiles&amp;p=363744"},"modified":"2017-03-21T02:30:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:05","slug":"erick-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"grist-50-profiles","link":"https:\/\/grist.org\/grist-50\/profile\/erick-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban renewal plans often skip over the communities that need them most. Erick Rodriguez designs livable neighborhoods for all."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"g50-profile__stats-block profile__stats-block--profile-363744 \">Architect<br \/>\nCleveland, Ohio<br \/>\nAge: 28<\/aside>\n<p>Sustainable development projects sound nice on paper, but they often overlook the communities most in need of a revamp. Erick Rodriguez, a native of California, has brought a background in urban design and a knack for community engagement to the city of Cleveland. He\u2019s specifically focused on underserved neighborhoods like Kinsman, where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitysolutions.com\/assets\/docs\/Neighborhood_Profiles\/kinsman.pdf\">51 percent of residents live in poverty and 96 percent of residents are black.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through the Rose Architectural Fellowship, a program that pairs young designers and community developers, Rodriguez has helped neighborhoods focus on tenets of sustainability, like food access. The company he works for, Burten, Bell, Carr Development, has launched a teaching kitchen, a mobile market program that distributes fresh fruit and vegetables, and an urban farming initiative &#8212; all in Kinsman.<\/p>\n<p>[pullquote share=&#8221;true&#8221; tweet=&#8221;\u201cHow do we expand sustainability so that it\u2019s more equitable?\u201d&#8221; hashtag=&#8221;Grist50&#8243;]\u201cHow do we expand sustainability so that it\u2019s more equitable and folks in communities that are more disadvantaged have a stake?\u201d [\/pullquote]<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez also works with residents in the Climate Ambassadors program, which offers grants and workshops to community members who want to lead their own development projects. Rodriguez says his efforts are designed to connect people back to the land where they live, even as the planet changes. \u201cEspecially within communities of color, we\u2019ve been taken away from our relationship to the earth,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Rodriguez: a recycled water project at Burten, Bell, Carr\u2019s office building and a small-business incubator called the Box Spot, which will be housed in recycled shipping containers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This architect designs better neighborhoods. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57007830,"featured_media":490306,"menu_order":15,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-363744","grist-50-profiles","type-grist-50-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","grist-50-cities","grist-50-13","grist-50-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Urban renewal plans often skip over the communities that need them most. 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