Houston Skatepark and Charles River Esplanade Selected as June’s “Frontline Parks”

Posted on June 28, 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. What does a daffy have in common with a downward dog? Both are moves you might see in [...]

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Learning to Share: Designing Schoolyards for More Than Just Recess

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Peter Harnik

A sixth excerpt from the recently released book published by Island Press called Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities. In this post, we look at some cities who have created parkland by sharing schoolyards with their parks departments. Schoolyards are large, flat, centrally located open spaces with a mandate to serve the recreational needs of schoolchildren. Great schoolyards–the rare [...]

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Going From “Parkway” to “Park”

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Peter Harnik

A third excerpt from the recently released book published by Island Press called Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities. In this post, we look at some examples of boulevards and parkways used as parks. When the parkway was first invented by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvin Vaux in the 1860s, it was much more a “park” and less a “way” [...]

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Some news from around…

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Elissa Hoagland

In Boston, the iconic Christian Science Center and Plaza plans for redesign on a human scale, adding a pedestrian bridge to the massive reflecting pool and adding trees and benches (Boston Globe). The Urbanophile covers People for Urban Progress (PUP), an Indianapolis nonprofit which is repurposing city materials to repair and improve the park system. [...]

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Making the Downtown Park a Success

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Ben Welle

The Boston Globe visited Houston’s Discovery Green wondering why that park is being used so much and its own Rose Kennedy Greenway so little given its high profile location. The article points out that the Greenway has not yet instituted the types of features and programming to bring more people in — there are no [...]

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