Cities with Health Promoting Park Systems Provide Mixed Uses and Adequate Programming

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Peter Harnik

An excerpt from The Trust for Public Land’s report From Fitness Zones to the Medical Mile: How Urban Park Systems Can Best Promote Health and Wellness. We wrote a preview of this report in an earlier post. In this post, we look at a mixture of uses and a maximum amount of programming. Mixing uses in parks [...]

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Award-Winning Parks Projects From Hollywood to New York

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Ryan Donahue

At first glance, Cahuenga Peak, the backdrop to the Hollywood sign, might seem more like a supporting actor than a bona fide star. But it got its moment in the spotlight last year as The Trust for Public Land helped save it from becoming a luxury housing development. Now it has been named “Best New [...]

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Cahuenga Peak Nominated for “2011 Heart of Green” Award

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Ryan Donahue

The famous Hollywood sign has stood for decades in regal solitude on Cahuenga Peak, gazing out over Los Angeles. When the land surrounding the “H” was threatened by a luxury housing development in 2009, The Trust for Public Land stepped forward to lead the effort to purchase the 138 acres surrounding the iconic letters. The [...]

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The Greenbelt and Gilbert Lindsay Park Selected as “Frontline Parks”

Posted on February 18, 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. February’s selections highlight the importance of recreation in urban areas. One of the primary functions of urban parks [...]

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Some news from around…

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Elissa Hoagland

Denver’s cemeteries grow into the role of public parks with free concerts, art displays and elegant gardens (Denver Post). ASLA’s The Dirt provides a detailed summary of Peter Harnik’s Wednesday presentation of his new book, which discusses ways to incorporate parks into built-out cities (and guidance on how to plan for them). Earth Policy Institute’s [...]

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Fitness Zones Bring Low-Cost Activity to LA

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Ben Welle

There’s a nice story by public radio station KPCC in Los Angeles on “Fitness Zones” being built in the city’s parks. TPL has been working with the city to bring exercise equipment that is simple, durable and still attractive to use for exercising. The article touches on how they could be of some help in [...]

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View from Cahuenga Peak: Hollwood Sign (for now)

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Ben Welle

If Paris has the Eifel Tower and New York the Statue of Liberty, then LA has the Hollywood sign.  Earlier this week, TPL announced that the view of the world-famous Hollywood Sign will be protected by purchasing Cahuenga Peak, the 138 acres behind and to the left of the sign which could have been developed [...]

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Partnerships in Tough Times

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Ben Welle

Jack Foley of L.A.’s People for Parks pens an op-ed in the LA Daily News on the need for parks in tough times. (L.A. parks are facing a deep budget cut, as the city scrambles to reconcile lower revenues.) The budget crisis is forcing us to rethink our lifestyle. This isn’t our first economic downturn, [...]

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Griffith Park – Historic and in Need of a Conservancy?

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Ben Welle

Many people might not know that Los Angeles has a 4,218 park right in the heart of the city. Griffith Park was donated to the city 112 years ago by industrialist Col. Griffith Jenkins Griffith — who wanted to create the largest urban park in America. (He accomplished this task, but Griffith Park has not [...]

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Alleys as Parks

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Ben Welle

An article in the LA Times describes efforts in Los Angeles to convert alleys to park-like spaces, an opportunity quantified quite well. There are few cities whose alleys offer more possibility than Los Angeles. The USC Center for Sustainable Cities, which is leading the alley campaign here, found recently that there are 12,309 blocks of [...]

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