We conducted a post-construction survey of neighborhood preferences for street scale urban greenspace designed as green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) on vacant residential lots in Detroit, a city where greenspace has potential to address structural inequities that characterize legacy cities and affect well-being. We investigated residents’ preferences related to their perceptions of microscale elements: immediately perceptible fine grain landscape characteristics of plants, landform, water, and structural materials. Our results suggest that microscale elements affect residents’ perceptions of care and safety, which are strongly related to preferences for landscape treatments on vacant lots near their homes. For each of two replicate pilot sites, we developed 15 alternative landscape treatments (including a control vacant lot). Across treatments, we varied microscale elements that could act as cues to care (CTC) or cues to safety (CTS). In a survey of all households within 250 m of the two sites, we measured residents’ perceptions of and preferences for alternative treatments. Among CTC, regular mowing was essential to preference, and low-growing shrubs and forbs with prominent flowers characterize the most preferred treatments. A CTS, bollards separating vacant lots from public access, were preferred for most treatments. Lots planted with many trees were preferred by a smaller percentage of residents, and their perceptions of care were less related to their preference. Overall, preferences are more well-explained by perceived care than by perceived safety. Furthermore, perceived care explains the effect of perceived safety on residents’ preferences for vacant lots near their homes.

我们对底特律的空置住宅区设计成绿色雨水基础设施（GSI）的街道规模的城市绿地进行了邻里偏好的建设后调查，该城市的绿地潜力有可能解决传统城市的结构性不平等问题并影响人们的福祉。我们调查了与居民对微观元素的看法有关的偏好：植物，地貌，水和结构材料的可立即感知的细颗粒景观特征。我们的结果表明，微观因素会影响居民对护理和安全的看法，这与在其房屋附近的空地上进行景观处理的偏好密切相关。对于两个重复的试点，我们开发了15种替代景观处理方法（包括对照空地）。在各种治疗中，我们改变了微观尺度的元素，它们可以充当护理的线索（CTC）或安全的线索（CTS）。在对两个地点250 m以内的所有家庭进行的一项调查中，我们测量了居民对替代疗法的看法和偏好。在四氯化碳中，定期修剪对喜好至关重要，低生长的灌木和具有明显花朵的前叉是最优选的治疗方法的特征。对于大多数治疗方法，首选CTS，将空地与公共场所隔开的系船柱。种植很多树木的地段受到较小比例居民的青睐，他们对照料的看法与他们的喜好关系不大。总体而言，通过感知的护理比通过感知的安全性更容易解释偏好。此外，知觉照料解释了知觉安全性对居民偏爱其房屋附近空地的偏好的影响。