Gardens & Landscapes

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Imagine a future for urban Africa in which free thinking reigns supreme, roof tops are adorned with urban parks, and the streets are littered with electric powered scooters.[read more]

Josh O'Conner is a Senior Editor for the Urban Times an online magazine. He's a planner by trade and an advocate for community-oriented urbanism. When he's off the clock, Josh STILL likes urban planning. But he also fills his time with small-scale agriculture, ecology, and sociology. He does all that with his wife and daughters in...[read more]

urban green infrastructure

How do the benefits of urban green infrastructure stack up against the costs? We need to better understand the services and disservices of green infrastructure for improved planning and management of urban ecosystems.[read more]

angels in LA

Not all angels have wings. Some are clearly grounded and quietly working in Los Angeles city parks thanks to the partnership between the Recreation and Parks Department and the Los Angeles Parks Foundation.[read more]

Paris' tree-lined streets

During the reign of French King Henry IV from 1579 to 1610, he and his Duke of Sully remade French infrastructure with tree-lined highways. A new word was introduced, promenade: a special walk to see and to be seen.[read more]

Green Lake Park, Seattle

While the greenbelt was the prevailing feature of the master plan, John Charles Olmsted also intended to locate a park or playground within a half mile of every home.[read more]

public-private partnership

In spite of the ambiguity that results from adding more stakeholders to the park planning and management process, private partnerships are resulting not only in more dollars for parks but a keener sense of management for parks.[read more]

wilderness amid industry

An alliance of nearly 270 organizations, which have banded together under the name Chicago Wilderness, are working towards improving green infrastructure and creating access to nature for children, among other things.[read more]

boulevards in Paris

The boulevards laid out by Baron Haussmann were lined with trees which were heavily pruned every year, a maintenance regime which kept these trees in perpetual adolescence and allowed them to exist with much smaller soil volumes.[read more]

the view from Monmartre

It’s incredible to think that Paris as we know it today, a place full of incredible boulevards called "The City of Lights" that could just as easily be called "The City of Trees" has the enviable trees that it does.[read more]

Nottingham's forest plans

In the United Kingdom, Nottingham currently boasts the Kingdom’s top green space ranking. However, its lack of vision to make parks more attractive could be hurting the city financially in the long term.[read more]

cherry blossoms in Central Park

Most of my return trips to New York include a visit to the same places I spent time in as a kid – Riverside Park, or Central Park, or both. And there is no nicer time to be in these places than the spring.[read more]