Peter Harnik discussed his new book Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities on The Brian Lehrer Show. Listen to the 11 minute radio clip online at WNYC. Berlin’s newest park, the former Tempelhof Airport, continues to receive press as an unprogrammed, minimally designed, great new greenspace (Los Angeles Times) New bike valet program for NYC’s SummerStage events at East River Park [...]
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Let’s all have elevated rail line parks. Chicago, Philadelphia, Jersey City and Detroit all look to have their own version of New York’s High Line Park (NY Times) And speaking of the High Line, Phase II is scheduled to open Spring 2011 (The Dirt) Plans for a total smart-growth city in China have halted for [...]
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Atlantic Monthly hosts “Future of the City” conference, participants mention parks and public spaces as key element of creating a great quality of life for future prosperity. (The Dirt) Falling tree limbs brings attention to health of trees in Central Park (City Room) Cincinnati to invest in expanded bike network of off street trails and [...]
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In our continued documentation of parks’ contribution to city tourism, we again are relaying advice in the New York Times 36 Hours series, this time from St. Louis. The Times notes that “the famous arch, of course, is still there, along with plenty of 19th-century architecture and an eye-opening amount of green space.” Interestingly, the [...]
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Nanjing, one of the oldest metropolitan cities within China, has committed a 460 acre waterfront district to a new smart growth urban design. (The Dirt) Report on upgrades made to Union Square in an effort to make it more pedestrian and bike-friendly. (Streetsblog) Next American City’s Vincent Valk asks “What is Livability?” A report on [...]
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Pictures can say a thousand words, or show thousands of people. Cincinnati’s Indie Summer Series on Fountain Square is proving to be the hottest free ticket in town, and enlivening this central plaza. Urban Cincy’s Randy Simes tells us that the recent repositioning of the Tyler Davidson Fountain allowed for a larger contiguous space for [...]
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Denver’s cemeteries grow into the role of public parks with free concerts, art displays and elegant gardens (Denver Post). ASLA’s The Dirt provides a detailed summary of Peter Harnik’s Wednesday presentation of his new book, which discusses ways to incorporate parks into built-out cities (and guidance on how to plan for them). Earth Policy Institute’s [...]
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The New York Times reports that budget problems are forcing many of the nation’s state parks to close their gates or cut services. The National Trust for Historic Preservation agrees, listing State Parks at the top of its “Endangered Places” list. New York City Economic Development gets creative to address unfunded park project, temporarily transforming [...]
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Two different ways to design and program public space: 1) “Street Pianos” are coming to New York, and will be prominently placed in a number of parks. The pianos have been successful in London, São Paulo and other cities. (Village Voice); and 2) from Toronto, color and art comes in the form of painted “nature-inspired [...]
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ASLA’s The Dirt recently covered the 2010 Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Study Symposium. This year’s focus was “Designing Wildlife Habitats,” which looked at ways to preserve biodiversity in rural and urban environments. America’s cities are an appropriate laboratory for such a movement, given that many city-dwellers’ encounters with wildlife are limited to rats, raccoons [...]
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