Some news from around…

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Elissa Hoagland Izmailyan

New plans for a greenway along the Allegheny Riverfront in Pittsburgh. Next American City has the story, along with a fantastic picture of Point State Park. Kaid Benfield at NRDC reviews Peter Harnik’s “Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities.” Jonathan Lerner at Miller-McCune discusses the connections between urban planning and public health, highlighting the [...]

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Pittsburgh’s Schenley Plaza Receives International Recognition

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Ben Welle

Schenley Plaza in Pittsburgh continues to garner national and now international praise. The parking lot-to-park project of the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy won a 2009 International Award for Livable Communities (the “LivCom” Awards) this past week in the Czech Republic and last month won the Pinnacle Award from the International Downtown Association. “It has been wonderful [...]

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Pittsburgh’s Mellon Square

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Ben Welle

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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Pittsburgh’s Parks Showcased at Urban Parks Conference

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Ben Welle

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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