There are some great things going on with parks and neighborhood renewal in Newark, New Jersey, the state’s largest city just a stone’s throw from New York City and struggling to recover after years of decline. Today, the city opened a new park, thirty years after the city purchased the land. The Newark Star Ledger: [...]
Filed under: partnerships, renewal | Tagged: Newark | 1 Comment »
Cities are beginning to look past conventional methods of acquiring and creating parkland and turning to a cadre of different ways to create usable space. In an article for Landscape Architecture (pdf ), Peter Harnik looks at some of these methods, starting: Are you regularly told that your city is “all built out” and has [...]
Filed under: planning, renewal | 1 Comment »
Like the famous Supreme Court decision on a certain topic, you know a good public place when you see it. But what is it that makes these spaces work? The National Building Museum is presenting a series of mini-documentaries identifying these characteristics in what they call Great Green Places. According to the Museum: By “green” [...]
Filed under: facilities, planning | Tagged: usership, washington dc | 5 Comments »
Mark Gorton takes us through the newly closed-to-car areas of Broadway in New York City. more about "Streetsblog Visits Broadways New Publ…", posted with vodpod
Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Andrew Revkin of the New York Times provides a great video and backstory of the “daylighted” stream in Seoul, North Korea involving the tearing down of a highway and construction of the waterway and linear park.
Filed under: international, renewal, transportation | Tagged: daylighting, freeways, seoul | Leave a Comment »
Lake creature being reported in Minneapolis parks.
Filed under: partnerships | Tagged: minneapolis, public art | Leave a Comment »
We’re back with some more news on freeway teardowns, this time highlighting efforts in New Orleans and Louisville, KY. This last week an article appeared in the New Orleans Times-Picayune about that city considering tearing down a segment of the elavated freeway I-10. The idea is to replace the segment with what was originally on [...]
Filed under: transportation | Tagged: freeways, louisville, new orleans | 1 Comment »
Andrea Neal writes for the Indianapolis Star about the balance of private uses in public parks. (IndyStar.com) The new High Line elevated park becomes a stage in New York. (Washington Post) Ken Salazar…champion of urban national parks? (Stltoday) Illuminating parks to fight gang violence. (AllGov) “Keeping transportation distinct from recreation is so yesterday, so old-think. [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
The trouble with light rail and subway, some say, is that it only serves a small area around each station, and that vast areas can be left to dependence on cars. Planners consider mass transit service areas around light rail stations and subway stops to be about 1/4 mile — any farther and you’ll see [...]
Filed under: transportation | Tagged: bikes, dallas, research, transit | 4 Comments »
ArchNews gives an overview of changes to the Gateway Mall in St. Louis. From an urban planning standpoint, sometimes a garden is not just a garden – especially in St. Louis. City planners see Citygarden, which opens tomorrow, July 1, as the first step in fulfilling a nearly century-old dream in St. Louis – creating [...]
Filed under: facilities, partnerships | Tagged: downtown, st. louis | 3 Comments »
