Ellen Dunham-Jones spoke in a TED presentation on retrofitting suburbia. If you’re interested in how metro areas can retrofit their suburbs into places that turn underused parking lots, mall sites and other moribund areas into walkable places with shops, housing, parks and accessible transit, this video is a worthwhile twenty minutes. In particular, Dunham-Jones mentions [...]
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The New York Times had an nice story over the weekend about Senator Chuck Schumer’s interest in music in a Brooklyn park. The Senator has fervently supported (and attended) the indie-music series popular among many of the city’s younger crowd in East River State Park. Interestingly, the part of this park home to the concerts [...]
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The community garden movement, born in the 1970s, has gained momentum throughout the past decade. According to the Trust for Public Land’s Center for City Park Excellence, there are at least 650 community gardens under park agency jurisdiction alone in major U.S. cites. Jeffrey Hou, Julie Johnson, and Laura Lawson provided insight on the movement [...]
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Richard Florida is skeptical of plans to clear neighborhoods in Detroit to create urban farms. In an Atlantic video interview, he suggests that the city capitalize on its strengths — building on the base of Wayne State University (and the other nearby state universities in Lansing and Ann Arbor) and working with the city’s remaining [...]
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, in the United States there are very few big cities that are actually shrinking. In fact, they have grown very much in land area and in only a few cases have these regions actually lost population (and only slightly when they do). Both Kaid Benfield of NRDC and Aaron Renn of [...]
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Revitalization of compact urban neighborhoods often means — and can even be centered on — renewing the urban parks within them. Patterson Park in Baltimore is a great example of this. Recent news out of Cincinnati from the historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood is further evidence of this trend, where local economic development officials believe an over [...]
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DW reports that Berlin’s former 950-acre Tempelhof Airport has opened for the first time under its new use as a city park. The interesting thing about the opening is that nothing has changed – runways, the terminal, the hanger are all just the same as they were before (until the city decides how to design [...]
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Neal Peirce writes about the Chicago-based Institute on Comprehensive Community Development, a new effort to consider the many issues of community development beyond traditional housing initiatives. TPL has done some research into this matter, trying to find ways for housing and parks issue to connect more, and we’re happy to see this news. Peirce describes [...]
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Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized 22 of New York’s residents and community organizations for their work in environmental protection with its “Environmental Quality Award.” Among those recognized were a handful of outstanding organizations who work in New York City’s parks and public spaces, including GrowNYC, Brooklyn’s El [...]
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Architect Manit Rastogi is seeking to transform the canals of Delhi, India by using new technology to treat sewage and turning the now polluted corridors into a network of bike and pedestrian greenways. In a report and the below video on CNN, Rastogi says the city “will then be interconnected with an eco-friendly and safe [...]
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