The community garden movement, born in the 1970s, has gained momentum throughout the past decade. According to the Trust for Public Land’s Center for City Park Excellence, there are at least 650 community gardens under park agency jurisdiction alone in major U.S. cites. Jeffrey Hou, Julie Johnson, and Laura Lawson provided insight on the movement [...]
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Need a park in your neighborhood but don’t have any space? According to a recent article by Peter Harnik and Aric Merolli, one place to look is the large number of urban water reservoirs sitting inside cities. With new regulations requiring municipalities to cover reservoirs or institute water filtration systems, new “land” is being created [...]
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An article in the Seattle Post Intelligencer describes efforts in that city between residents and the parks department to make their parks better places. In March, more than 100 people packed a room at the Lake City Library, concerned about violent crime and persistent drug deals in the area. The neighborhood’s Little Brook Park had [...]
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Seattle is working to build a trail along its Lake Union, that will increase connectivity between parks and neighborhoods a stone’s throw from downtown. The effort aims to complete a loop around the lake. An article in the Seattle Post Intelligencer describes that when complete, the result will be the six-mile Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop [...]
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A mini-travelogue on Seattle’s trails and bike network in the Post-Intelligencer recently shows the value of park connectivity — something Olmsted knew the value of and something cities across the country are still trying to achieve. But the coolest things about this ride are the water and the string of parks along the way — [...]
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What does $170,000 in public money, $26,000 in donated funds, 44,000 volunteer hours and a space under a freeway get you between two of Seattle’s most densely populated neighborhoods? A mountain bike park, what else? (Short article in the Seattle Times.) “The space under the freeway and between Seattle’s Eastlake and Capitol Hill neighborhoods was [...]
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An article in the Seattle Times describes the city’s attempt to enliven its downtown parks by introducing seven park rangers, “functioning as part security guards, part social workers,” in ten parks in and near downtown. Rangers patrol in pairs between 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m……They begin their shifts by rousing homeless people. The rangers ask [...]
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