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Comment on When Parks, Transportation and Water Collide by Traffic Roundabout: Award-Winning Civic Space : Sustainable Cities Network

Traffic Roundabout: Award-Winning Civic Space : Sustainable Cities Network — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:04:41 +0000

[...] is the recipient of the award in the Civic Places category for their traffic roundabout.We’ve written before about how the town’s new traffic circle has successfully managed traffic flow at a busy five-way [...]

Comment on “A Design that Celebrates the People”: Normal, IL Traffic Circle Wins Smart Growth Award as New Civic Space by Traffic Roundabout: Award-Winning Civic Space : Sustainable Cities Network

Traffic Roundabout: Award-Winning Civic Space : Sustainable Cities Network — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:02:50 +0000

[...] " "))]); });Source: City Parks BlogPhoto: Hoerr Schaudt Landscape ArchitectsFrom “A Design that Celebrates the People”: Normal, IL Traffic Circle Wins Smart Growth Award as New Civ…” by Colleen Gentles:[In December last year], EPA announced the winners of the 2011 National [...]

Comment on An Interconnected Park Web: How Greenways Create Healthy Communities by wartica

wartica — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:26:16 +0000

I love being around areas that have different activities to do – cycling, hiking, jogging, and just plain old walking. Great post and I look forward to sharing more with you:)

Comment on Creating Parkland via Rail Trails by An Interconnected Park Web: How Greenways Create Healthy Communities « City Parks Blog

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:20:28 +0000

[...] great connector is a rail-trail, a park path constructed out of an abandoned train track. Most of the more than 15,000 miles of [...]

Comment on Creating Parkland Along River and Stream Corridors by An Interconnected Park Web: How Greenways Create Healthy Communities « City Parks Blog

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:20:24 +0000

[...] easiest way to create interconnections that also extend a park system is in stream valley parks, particularly where a small stream flows into a larger river and both are flanked with trails. This [...]

Comment on Chicago’s Green Mayor: The Legacy of Richard Daley by A Look at Chicago”s Green Startup Community | Technori

A Look at Chicago”s Green Startup Community | Technori — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:46:36 +0000

[...] greenest city in America, a title supported by the construction of over 7 million square feet of green roofs on public and private buildings, the addition of 1,300 acres of open and green space in 12 years, [...]

Comment on “A Design that Celebrates the People”: Normal, IL Traffic Circle Wins Smart Growth Award as New Civic Space by Reva

Reva — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:23:38 +0000

Having transportation, entertainment venues and more adjacent to the circle sounds like a model project.

Comment on Hudson River Park is the First Frontline Park for 2012 by Reva

Reva — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:20:38 +0000

Hope this trend continues.

Comment on From Dumps to Destinations: Converting Landfills to Parks by Cassie Strauss

Cassie Strauss — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:32:31 +0000

“In Portland, Oregon, St. Johns Landfill, a former disposal site within the 2,000-acre Smith-Bybee Wetlands Natural Area, earns more than $100,000 a year from methane that is piped 2 miles to heat the lime kiln of a cement company. ”

That’s amazing. Something like that is the kind of unique environmental problem-solving that is actually a win-win situation: recycling the gas (that would have been released into the atmosphere anyway) that is produced when trash breaks down to heat a kiln that would have otherwise been heated by energy off the grid or direct fossil fuels.

Comment on Parks Breathe Life (and Jobs) into Cities by Cassie Strauss

Cassie Strauss — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:34:26 +0000

This proves that public and recreation lands can be funded, and kept up, successfully even in a tough economy – and, more importantly, how they can actually stimulate a local economy by creating jobs and bringing visitors, not even to mention how much they improve local quality of life.