The Millennium Reserve project is a large-scale urban restoration involving 140,000 acres of Chicago’s southeast side, with 2,000 acres of brownfields and 33 towns in the Calumet Region. Millennium Reserve has been selected as part of America’s Great Outdoors initiative. The Reserve received major grants for environmental restoration, but a post in Landscape Urbanism points out that the project is more than just an open space program or trails network. Calling the Reserve a perpetual ideas competition, Aldo Burcheri says it can be an incubator for ecological management strategies, merging local communities, environmental research, and on-the-ground job training in significant global landscapes.

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