How many people in your city live within walking distance of the nearest park? In what neighborhoods should park improvements or additions be targeted to maximize impact? How well is your city’s park system serving the needs of its residents? Are there disparities between the inner-city core and the lower-density urban fringe, or between different [...]
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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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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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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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