Posted on January 5, 2009 by Ben
The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy’s blog has a nice post up profiling that city’s Mellon Square. The almost 1.5-acre downtown park was last year named one of the country’s top 10 public spaces by the American Planning Association, but still has a bit of a weathered look. The Conservancy, city and other private partners are teaming [...]
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Posted on September 24, 2008 by Ben
This past week City Parks Blog attended the International Urban Parks Conference in Pittsburgh, Penn. We’ll be posting on some of the ideas presented there, but want to first mention the fantastic things going on in the host city, described in an article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, to turn former industrial space into parks and [...]
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