What would Riverside be like if large-scale corporate farming laws didn’t enter Indiana?


Harvard GSD Urban Planning Studio with Toni Griffin

Legacy Lands: Protopian Futures



Presentation to Indianpolis Mayor, Congressman and local community



Imagined Protopian Future: What Riverside Would Look Like if Large-Scale Corporate Farming didn’t enter Indiana


Riverside, Indianapolis is currently facing Food Apartheid: there are currently no supermarkets in the 4-mile radius that have fresh food





Riverside, Indianapolis








This issue stems from political motivation. Profit-based food laws that were a result of Neo-Liberal thinking isolated BIPOC farmers, local businesses and people from their land and nourishment. 







A Timeline of Agricultural history in the U.S & Indiana




Today, only 1.5% of farmer owner operators are Black.
















Mapping Out Current Food Access in Riverside





A Collage of a Protopian Future





What could Riverside look like?



Proposed Solutions

A Combination of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches

Effective Policy meets Supportive Cultures



Above: Proposed Imagined Future focused on all levels of community development. (Food Production, Research, Recreation, Education, Innovation)



CPUL Proposed for Creek



United Structures




A Collage of a Protopian White River