More Music Festivals, More Money

Yet more news on big music festivals in parks. Word has it from the City Insider blog at the San Francisco Chronicle that the city’s Rec. and Park Dept. was thrilled with the Outside Lands music festival in Golden Gate Park this year. The reason: revenue. (Read our past posts here.) These things are bringing [...]

Finding Fields in a Built Out City

How do cities create more in-demand playing fields if they are all built out? Jared Blumenfeld, the new general manager of San Francisco Recreation and Parks just penned a piece for the San Francisco Chronicle that explains a couple things that his city is doing: First, we’ve increased play capacity by installing synthetic turf and [...]

Smart Growth with Parksonality

An article the other day in the San Francisco Chronicle describes the parks in Mission Bay, a new neighborhood now springing up that city: Sometimes it’s hard to separate the identity of a San Francisco neighborhood from its park. After all, what would the Mission District be without Dolores Park, or North Beach without Washington [...]

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