Frontline Park for May: Hunting Park

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Angelina Horn

Each month, City Parks Alliance recognizes a “Frontline Park” to promote and highlight inspiring examples of urban park excellence, innovation, and stewardship across the country. The program also seeks to highlight examples of the challenges facing our cities’ parks as a result of shrinking municipal budgets, land use pressures, and urban neighborhood decay. This 87-acre [...]

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What is Your City’s ParkScore?

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Ryan Donahue

How many people in your city live within walking distance of the nearest park? In what neighborhoods should park improvements or additions be targeted to maximize impact? How well is your city’s park system serving the needs of its residents? Are there disparities between the inner-city core and the lower-density urban fringe, or between different [...]

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Brooklyn Bridge Park: New York’s Latest Innovative Harbor Attraction

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Angelina Horn

One of New York’s newest parks, Brooklyn Bridge Park blends the historic with the latest in landscape innovation to create what the weblog Gothamist calls “the most spectacular and stunning addition to the city’s parks system in recent memory.” Located on the site of a former port that shuttered in the 1980s due to dramatic [...]

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In the Age of the Creative Economy, Parks Boost Cities’ Competitiveness

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Elissa Hoagland Izmailyan

Last month, Amazon.com spent more than $600 million to acquire three adjacent parcels in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood for its new headquarters campus. The parcels are within brief walking distance of South Lake Union Park, a new destination park and the focal point of the burgeoning neighborhood. Creative and technology firms respond to their [...]

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Developer Impact Fees Pay for Parks

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Coleen Gentles

Residents in downtown Los Angeles are leaping for joy because a brand new park is coming to the revitalized historic core.  Spring Street Park, which broke ground last October, will be the first public park in the neighborhood.  According to the 2010 U.S. Census, 15,000 residents moved into downtown between 2000 and 2010, without the [...]

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Register Now for the 2012 International Urban Parks Conference

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Angelina Horn

Registration has now opened for this summer’s International Urban Parks Conference!  Join us July 14-17 in New York City for Greater & Greener: Re-Imagining Parks for 21st Century Cities. Presented by City Parks Alliance in partnership with NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, Greater & Greener will take place in the city that pioneered the [...]

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February’s Frontline Park: Louisville Waterfront Park

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Angelina Horn

Louisville’s Waterfront Park is an award winning and popular community greenspace situated on 85 acres along the Ohio River. Once a blighted landscape of heavy industry with no public access to the river, the last 20 years have seen the park become a regional jewel that attracts 1.5 million visitors every year, sparking hundreds of [...]

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Hudson River Park is the First Frontline Park for 2012

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Angelina Horn

Each month, City Parks Alliance recognizes a “Frontline Park” to promote and highlight inspiring examples of urban park excellence, innovation, and stewardship across the country.  The program also seeks to highlight examples of the challenges facing our cities’ parks as a result of shrinking municipal budgets, land use pressures, and urban neighborhood decay. “We selected [...]

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Signature Park Survey Released

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Angelina Horn

City Parks Alliance and HR&A Advisors surveyed 58 dedicated park stewardship organizations across North America to understand their role in park management and the opportunities they create for signature city parks.  Among the findings were that these organizations augment public investment with substantial private funding to improve public spaces. The typical organization sponsors 60 programs [...]

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2011 City Park Facts Released: Urban Parks Grow as Employment Declines

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Ryan Donahue

The Trust for Public Land has released its most recent data on city park systems from across the country, showing that the 100 largest cities added more than 120 parks in the past year. Despite aggregate increases in acreage and facilities across the U.S., many city park departments are struggling with funding shortages. Operational spending [...]

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