Each month, City Parks Alliance recognizes two “Frontline Parks” to promote and highlight inspiring examples of urban park excellence, innovation, and stewardship across the country. The program also seeks to highlight examples of the challenges facing our cities’ parks as a result of shrinking municipal budgets, land use pressures, and urban neighborhood decay. Parks are [...]
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We nearly missed mentioning a new greenway emerging in New Orleans that will run from City Park to the edge of the French Quarter. The project has a lot of potential in terms of economic development and creating a separate bike and walking trail right in the heart of the city. The city is moving [...]
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We’re back with some more news on freeway teardowns, this time highlighting efforts in New Orleans and Louisville, KY. This last week an article appeared in the New Orleans Times-Picayune about that city considering tearing down a segment of the elavated freeway I-10. The idea is to replace the segment with what was originally on [...]
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Many people may not know about the effort to rebuild City Park in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the park — trees and buildings downed, flooding with limited resources left for renewal. Through a privately financed, $2 million effort a facelift is now getting under way. A story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune [...]
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