Olmsted Park and Potomac River Waterfront Park Selected as “Frontline Parks”

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. March’s selections celebrate historic design and new innovations. Depending upon where you live in the United States, the [...]

Creating More Parks, Less (Visible) Traffic in LA

Jason King at Landscape+Urbanism provides a summary of plans to cap sections of freeway in Los Angeles with a linear44-acre Hollywood Central Park. TPL’s Center for City Park Excellence took a look at this trend a few years ago and provided an article on the capping-freeways-with-parks movement. It should be noted that while the Big [...]

Fewer Megaprojects, More Megaparks

Next American City’s Diana Lind has a “what’s in store in 2010″ list on the magazine’s website, and one of them is: Fewer megaprojects, more megaparks. A project that has long intrigued me and will be covered in the magazine in the summer of 2010 is the The Park in Dallas. What’s so special about [...]

St. Louis Using Parks as Tool of Renewal

In our posts, we’ll be looking for older, industrial cities that are using parks as tools for renewal – both as ways to transform abandoned industrial land and as drivers for economic development. (See our post on Detroit for one example.) In the October, 2008 issue of Landscape Architecture we learn of the many ways [...]

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