Planners have long held up the idea of connectivity – links between people and places that tie everything together. Within park systems, the concept goes back at least to when the walls of European cities came down, as many of them (e.g. Paris), were turned into grand boulevards ringing their cities and linking up places. [...]
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A newly-formed group out of Atlanta is proposing that the federal government assist local communities by taking troubled commercial real estate properties off the hands of banks and convert them into public parks. An article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution describes how Michael Messner, a Georgia Tech alum commissioned the school’s Research Institute to investigate [...]
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The Community Development Block Grant has been one of the most effective vehicles for creating jobs under the Recovery Act (or stimulus), according to an analysis by the Brookings Institution and posted at The Avenue. The review indicates that “some 820 CDBG grants traceable in the [Recovery.gov] database are delivering a job for every $7,000 [...]
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City officials across the country are now determining which projects to fund under the Community Development Block Grant portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). If they meet certain standards established under ARRA, park projects are eligible to receive funding but will need to be placed on a list by local officials. According [...]
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The Interior Department just announced that some of Washington, D.C.’s parks will receive funding for improvements and rehabilitation under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, including the National Mall and the large and maintenance-backlogged Rock Creek Park, the city’s largest park. The Washington Post: The District of Columbia War Memorial, the domed temple to the [...]
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by Catherine Nagel, Executive Director of the City Parks Alliance, for a Special Message on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Are stimulus funds going to parks in your city? We want to find out. The City Parks Alliance and its network would like to know how parks groups are uncovering funds in the stimulus [...]
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