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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Parks After Dark: Balancing Safety, Efficiency, and Dark Skies

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Ryan Donahue

The issue of lighting in urban parks can be surprisingly contentious. One school of thought is that parks are supposed to offer a refuge within the city, a piece of nature untarnished by the glare of neon, light-emitting diodes, and halogen. Dark-sky advocates argue that while some parks might need more light than others, no [...]

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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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City Parks Alliance Seeks Nominations for “Frontline Parks” Section on Website

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Angelina Horn

“FRONTLINE PARKS” highlights urban parks that are creating economic, environmental and social capital through new kinds of partnerships.  This feature on CPA’s website (www.cityparksalliance.org) promotes inspiring examples of urban park excellence, innovation, and stewardship across the country. Twelve parks – one each month – will be featured on CPA’s website home page in 2012.  Each [...]

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Civic Center and Rotary Centennial Selected as Frontline Parks

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Angelina Horn

Each month, City Parks Alliance recognizes two “Frontline Parks” 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. Civic Center Park Civic [...]

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Robert C. Stuart Park and Concrete Plant Park Selected as August’s “Frontline Parks”

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Angelina Horn

Each month, City Parks Alliance recognizes two “Frontline Parks” 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. August’s Frontline [...]

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Creating and Financing Infill Parks in the Bay Area: Part I

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Ryan Donahue

San Francisco was just crowned the greenest city in the U.S. and Canada by one large study, a nod to its policies that require recycling, ban plastic shopping bags, and provide incentives for solar roofs. But the Bay Area is also thinking of sustainability in terms of smarter growth throughout the region as a whole. [...]

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Fairmount Park and Coolidge Park Are April’s “Frontline Parks”

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Angelina Horn

Each month, City Parks Alliance recognizes two “Frontline Parks“ to promote inspiring examples of urban park excellence, innovation and stewardship across the country in the face of shrinking municipal budgets, land use pressures and urban neighborhood decay. April’s selections highlight the positive changes good parks bring to cities. Park improvements can be cost-efficient catalysts for [...]

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Velociraptors in Prospect Park?

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Coleen Gentles

Unicorns, saber-toothed tigers and velociraptors, oh my! Last summer, the self-appointed “Non-Traditional Park Preservation Task Force” posted signs in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park warning users to stay on the paths or risk becoming prey to some unexpected four-legged creatures. The signs were posted to discourage vandals from breaking the fences, traipsing around the ravine and disturbing the newly replanted top soil. [...]

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Lynden Miller: Beautify the Urban Landsape

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Ben Welle

Great cities have great parks, and great parks have great horticulture. One person who knows the most about this is Lynden Miller, the director of the Central Park Conservatory Garden and public garden designer of many of New York City’s other outdoor oases. Drawing on lessons learned from revitalizing the Conservatory Garden, Madison Square Park, [...]

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