Urban Releaf: Improving The Environment & Reducing Racial Stressors In Oakland
Concrete sidewalks offer little inspiration for environmental awareness or creating a positive effect on race relations in a community. Their chief duty is for pedestrian transportation, and the maze design is not aesthetically pleasing or a respite from the city streets. A concrete wilderness is ideal to navigate through a confusing city, but these urban trails cannot connect all the needs of the people in a bustling thoroughfare.





