city parks

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How does a community lose 2+ acres of prized urban parkland without learning about it beforehand? How does a city government follow open meeting laws but fail to connect with affected residents?[read more]

city parks

 

At Civic Horticulture in Philadelphia, three panels of leading landscape architects discussed the organizational, aesthetic, and productive potential of horticulture. They explained how it is shaping contemporary civic spaces.[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]

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]

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]

Sandy's damage

We never experience the same forest twice, as both people and place are constantly evolving. Carroll Park is different, post-Sandy. My perception of it has changed, as I have changed, deepening my understanding of public space.[read more]

The structures that brought prominence to tactical urbanism—and that are in the city most receptive to the movement—are the “parklets” dotted throughout San Francisco.[read more]

cities and green space

Over the last decade, but particularly over the last five years, the concepts of sustainable design and its sub-genre, green infrastructure, have entered into the design, construction, and renovation of urban parks.[read more]

pocket parks

When one thinks of a park, one usually imagines a large plot full of trees in the centre of the city. But what happens in cities where green spaces are vital, but there is no free for such uses?[read more]

urban spaces

It will be clear from the above photo that the centre of Christchurch city now resembles something akin to what we see in many “shrinking” cities in the USA and Europe.[read more]