Fairmount Park and Coolidge Park Are April’s “Frontline Parks”

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Angelina

Each month, City Parks Alliance recognizes two “Frontline Parks“ to promote inspiring examples of urban park excellence, innovation and stewardship across the country in the face of shrinking municipal budgets, land use pressures and urban neighborhood decay. April’s selections highlight the positive changes good parks bring to cities. Park improvements can be cost-efficient catalysts for [...]

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Improving Access to Parks

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Ben Welle

We’re following up on our earlier post on the street grid and parks. This time we’re taking a closer look at how physical and perceived barriers can prevent access to parks – using TPL’s GIS mapping of park service areas to illustrate. There are two different approaches that TPL currently uses to determine how well [...]

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The Street Grid and City Parks

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Ben Welle

In a guest post at Kaid Benfield’s Switchboard blog (of NRDC), Rachel Sohmer very nicely describes the issues around street connectivity, using a childhood example about how the suburban dead-ends and cul-de-sacs made even short trips “as the crow flies” long given all the obstacles. The below figures show the difference more street connections can [...]

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