In this week’s “36 Hours” section the NY Times takes us to Buenos Aires, Argentina, recommending a visit to the 60-acre Parque Tres de Febrero (named after the date in which military leader Juan Manuel de Rosas was overthrown in 1852). The park is part of a larger area of parks that includes several museums, [...]
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We couldn’t grab the video, but the link to WTTW (PBS) provides a short video of Maureen Hackett talking about the comeback and operations today in New York’s Bryant Park. The attention to detail described by Hackett is good reason why when you visit the park, there so much to observe.
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Need a park in your neighborhood but don’t have any space? According to a recent article by Peter Harnik and Aric Merolli, one place to look is the large number of urban water reservoirs sitting inside cities. With new regulations requiring municipalities to cover reservoirs or institute water filtration systems, new “land” is being created [...]
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We want to spread the word of Atlanta-group Park Pride’s 9th annual parks and green space conference on Monday, March 22nd at the Atlanta Botanical Garden (located inside the city’s outstanding Piedmont Park). Sponsored by The Home Depot Foundation, the theme of this year’s event is “the role of parks in the new economy.” The [...]
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A new study says improved access to trails, parks and recreation programs can help address the nation’s obesity problem, but shrinking budgets are a real challenge to actually doing this, as reported by Science Daily. What’s badly needed, the researchers said, are more recreation facilities and non-motorized trails, with information about them made readily available [...]
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What if your office was a park? That’s essentially what the Breakout! Festival in New York City is trying to foster by setting up temporary workspaces in parks, plazas and other public spaces throughout the city. Breakout! is essentially an on-line networking tool that helps people and teams locate stimulating, serene and serendipitous places to [...]
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We’ve been thinking more and more about the connection between transit and parks. One useful resource in this area is the Station Area Planning Manual (pdf) prepared by Reconnecting America for the San Francisco Bay Area a few years ago. The manual is meant to be a guide for local governments as they plan areas [...]
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Sometimes a picture speaks volumes. Here at this blog, we like it when we can use images that say something so we don’t have to. In this case, we just came across the cover of Alaska Airlines magazine, which features an article on San Francisco’s parks. The article (mainly about the city’s parks) isn’t available [...]
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Next American City’s Diana Lind has a “what’s in store in 2010″ list on the magazine’s website, and one of them is: Fewer megaprojects, more megaparks. A project that has long intrigued me and will be covered in the magazine in the summer of 2010 is the The Park in Dallas. What’s so special about [...]
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America’s “love affair” with the car may be souring, says a new analysis from the Earth Policy Institute. The country’s vehicle fleet shrunk by 4 million vehicles, or nearly 2 percent, and could deplete 10 percent between now and 2020 from the all-time high of 250 million in 2008 to 225 million. While the decrease [...]
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