Via the PPS blog (earlier printed in Parks and Recreation magazine), Jay Walljasper writes eloquently on the experiences city parks provide to urban dwellers. He writes: How does owning a vacation house at Yosemite sound? Or a beach cottage near the shores of Acadia National Park? Do you dream of hiking the Grand Canyon right [...]
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The New York Times City Room blog visits the ruins of the old Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island, a stone’s throw across the water from the southern tip of Manhattan. The ruins will become part of the parkland on the redeveloped historic island. Andy Stone, TPL’s New York City Director comments in the video that [...]
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Speaking of good dining options within parks, it looks like Houston’s Hermann Park is set for a new restaurant opening in the next weeks. The locally-owned Little Big’s is one piece of a larger upgrade to the 445-acre park, a partnership of the city of Houston and the Hermann Park Conservancy. The Houston Chronicle’s food [...]
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Dr. Howard Frumpkin of the CDC gives a good speech on the connection of the built environment to public health. The below video is from an event last week at the National Building Museum. more about “Creating Healthy Communities“, posted with vodpod The Museum is now taking questions on-line until April 20th, that Dr. Frumpkin [...]
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If America is to have green cities in its future, what is our new agenda for accomplishing this? On April 29 in New York City, TPL will host a discussion with Neal Peirce, columnist and chair of the Citistates Group, a network of journalists and speakers who believe that successful metropolitan regions are today’s key [...]
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When you think of Dallas, do you think of walkable, nearby urban parks within compact neighborhoods? Maybe not yet — but these are exactly the types of places that are popping up in the “Big D.” The city is building parks in and around its increasingly residential downtown core at a pace seen in few [...]
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Maybe the nation has changed. Forty years ago, the historic music festival, Woodstock occurred on a country farm field in New York state. But today, the promoter of that festival is looking to bring a 40th anniversary festival not to a rural setting but to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, says New York Daily News: The summer [...]
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A funny or not-so-funny take on parks is coming to prime-time. A new show Parks & Recreation debuts on NBC tonight, that seems to be kind of like “The Office” in its mockumentary style set in a fictional small town parks and recreation department. Some park and recreation employees or citizen advocates might find it [...]
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“If you make it, they will come” might be the mantra for providing food in parks – and there may be no clearer example than Madison Square Park. We recently noticed the line outside the New York City park’s ShakeShack food kiosk, and couldn’t believe how long it was on a not-entirely warm late March [...]
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