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From Bluebelts to Greenbelts: Converting Wetlands and Stormwater Storage Ponds to Parkland

January 7, 2012 by City Parks Blog
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An eleventh excerpt from the recently released book published by Island Press called Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities. In this post, we look at some cities who have created parkland from wetlands and stormwater storage ponds. For environmental, financial, and legal reasons, urban stormwater... [read more]

Parks Breathe Life (and Jobs) into Cities

December 23, 2011 by City Parks Blog
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The South Platte River has become a cherished recreational asset for residents and visitors to Denver. Thoughtful, visionary planning and public-private partnership have restored and transformed the city’s waterfront from what was once called an “urban dump” to refuge for wildlife and people alike. Local efforts to improve the river have... [read more]

Uncovering Embedded 'Patterns of Place' in the City

August 1, 2011 by Chuck Wolfe
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Amid the roads, sidewalks and places that you have visited before, there are often embedded patterns to uncover, read and reinterpret. This exploration is an archaeology which involves more than unearthing distinct artifacts from another era. For me, it includes observing the place-based impacts of four interactive factors: The... [read more]

Interested in how to think about city parks? Get this book

May 7, 2010 by Kaid Benfield
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  Peter Harnik knows more about city parks than anyone else I know.  And he has now put much of what he knows into a handy new book, Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities (Island Press, 2010).  I was using it as a reference literally within minutes of receiving my copy and, if you are interested in the topic... [read more]

U.S. City Parks Added 5,000 Acres Last Year

October 15, 2009 by The Dirt ASLA
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The Trust for Public Land released a report stating that the 77 largest city park systems in the U.S. cover more than 1.3 million acres, and also added 5,000 acres of parkland over the past year. According to the Trust for Public Land, ”big-city park departments last year offered 56 million urban residents 10,419 park... [read more]