Conservancies are private, non-profit, park-benefit organizations that raise money independent of the city and spend it under a plan of action that is mutually agreed upon with the city. Conservancies do not own any parkland nor do they hold easements on it; the land continues to remain in the ownership of the city, and the [...]
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From the Shrinking Cities project, there’s a great video (without audio) on change in shrinking cities from Detroit to Manchester/Liverpool, UK to Leipzig and the Essen area in Germany. The simulation shows that these regions are spreading out almost as much as they are shrinking. This seems particularly the case with Detroit and Manchester/Liverpool. In [...]
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Can a new Detroit be grounded on setting aside some of its vacant land as new natural areas? In making a case for what could help bring Detroit back from its current economic doldrums, Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley of the Brookings Institution offer some ideas in The New Republic, including one that involves a [...]
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There’s a sad article in the Detroit News about that city’s 250-acre Eliza Howell Park. The grandson of the benefactor who gave 138 acres of the park to the city is asking that it be given back to the family so that he can develop it into a big box grocery store and homes. Kenneth [...]
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We posted last year about Detroit’s new Dequindre Cut trail, and want to again share a piece from Metropolis magazine on this great project. (The article webpage also features some great pictures of the new trail.) The Cut is the type of project that can show the role of parks, trails and other investments in [...]
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Though small, one of the most exciting new trail projects in the country is the Dequindre Cut, a new 1.3 mile urban greenway just outside of downtown Detroit built in a former rail trench that will connect the city’s new Riverwalk to the refurbished Eastern Market, a public market district. Farther, the cut transitions to [...]
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