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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Celebrating National Urban Biodiversity Week

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Elissa Hoagland Izmailyan

Sunday marked the beginning of the first-ever National Urban Biodiversity Week, a seven-city collaboration to bring urban dwellers into contact with local flora and fauna, from fungi to salamanders to old growth forests. The week-long series boasts dozens of events including lectures, nature walks, art projects, and children’s programs, in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, [...]

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The Prescription for Health Lies in the Outdoors

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Angelina Horn

Dr. Daphne Miller might appear, at first blush, to be one of the more unlikely speakers at the International Urban Parks Conference taking place this summer in New York City. But just scratch beneath the surface of her bio, and engage her in conversation for just a moment, and it’s perfectly clear why someone whose [...]

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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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Bike with the Commish: Touring the Hudson River Greenway with NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Angelina Horn

The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation holds sway over 5,000 different properties encompassing 29,000 acres of land — nearly 15 percent of America’s largest city. The person who just passed the 10-year mark as NYC Parks Commissioner, Adrian Benepe, still lives with his wife and sons in the Upper West Side Manhattan [...]

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March’s Frontline Park: Franklin Park

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Angelina Horn

At 527 acres, Franklin Park is the largest greenspace in Boston, boasting a 220-acre forest, an 18-hole golf course, the regional zoo, tennis and basketball courts, baseball diamonds, a cricket pitch, miles of woodland trails, picnic areas, and playgrounds. It is the only park in Boston where one can bicycle and barbecue. Designed by Frederick [...]

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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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