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As New York Plants One Million Trees, Benefits—and Some Burdens—Grow

The city’s MillionTrees program fights asthma and global warming. But tightening maintenance budgets, increasingly severe weather and decades-old planting decisions complicate trees’ contribution.
1 February 2012 - 5:00am
City Limits

The Largest Urban Park In America Coming To Chicago

A new park in Chicago aims to turn 140,000 acres of under-used and post industrial land along the Second City's southern rim into the country's largest urban park. Governor Pat Quinn hopes to add private funding to the $17m allotted by the state.
20 December 2011 - 8:00am
The Atlantic
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Public Parks to Cover Highways in Hamburg

The City of Hamburg, Germany is planning on building elevated public parks on sections of the to-be-expanded A7 (Highway 7), which is considered one of the most important north-south connectors in Germany.
9 December 2011 - 8:00am
TheCityFix.com

NPR Tours The High Line With Its Founders

The two founders of New York's famous High Line give NPR an exclusive tour of the park and provide the inside scoop on the creation of the park.
4 September 2011 - 9:00am
NPR:All Things Considered
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Urban Parks for Healthy Cities

Urban parks have an important role to play in solving the health and fitness crisis, but too many acres of parkland are not helping people become healthier. How can park systems be designed to be better-used and live up to their potential?
16 July 2011 - 9:00am
Philadelphia Daily News Digital / The Inquirer Digital

Repurposed Railyard Becomes Award-Winning Park

The City Parks blog looks at Santa Fe Railyard Park and Plaza, one of the winners of this year's Rudy Bruner Awards for Urban Excellence.
6 July 2011 - 5:00am
City Parks Blog

Rebuilding an Atlanta Park

The National Recreation and Parks Association is on a mission to fix up neglected parks around the country. Atlanta and D.C. are the first to benefit from their new program, "Parks Build Community."
6 June 2011 - 12:00pm
USA Today

Improvisation Under the Freeway

A spectacular series of recent photos from Seattle's Colonnade Park built beneath highway I-5 tell the story of adapted urban space.
2 May 2011 - 6:00am
Free Association Design

Parks Vs. Density

In Toronto, a developer is balking at the zoning that would force him to build a podium-style building out to the sidewalk, and wants to build a park with a tower instead. Can open space and density coexist?
15 April 2011 - 2:00pm
The Trust for Public Land

Urban Park Commended for Revitalizing Detroit

The Urban Land Institute recently awarded Campus Martius Park in Detroit the 2010 Urban Open Space Award for helping to rejuvenate the historic city center.
11 February 2011 - 1:00pm
UrbanLand

Turning "Redfields" Into Urban Parks

Jonathan Lerner gives an extensive analysis of the benefits of turning failed commercial properties, or "redfields", into strategically-picked park land for revitalization purposes. Some conversion would be permanent, some just land banking.
28 December 2010 - 1:00pm
Miller-McCune

Public Space is Essential for Democracy

Architecture critic Sarah Williams Goldhagen says that streets can't create public interaction in the way that unstructured spaces like urban parks can.
25 October 2010 - 12:00pm
ASLA's The Dirt blog

Reviews and Reflections on the Best New Urban Parks

The New Republic offers a look and review of some of the nation's best new urban parks.
9 October 2010 - 7:00am
The New Republic

A New Urban Park for Dallas

When an old parking structure was torn down, Downtown Dallas gained a new civic space right off the historic City Hall. Thomas Balsley Associates redesigned the park to be a flexible new front yard for Dallas residents. Giulia Mastrangelo of TBA gives us an inside look at the thought behind the design.
30 September 2010 - 11:39am
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Parks Are A Wise Investment In Tough Times

At a time when families across the country are facing fewer choices for fun, ambitious park projects like those in St. Louis, Detroit and Houston are "bringing urban centers back to life," according to JoAnn Greco.
29 August 2010 - 9:00am
Washington Post

Reviving Struggling Urban Areas with Parks

Three cities -- St. Louis, Houston and Detroit -- have gained new urban parks that are playing big roles in reviving parts of town.
3 August 2010 - 6:00am
The Washington Post

Want to Prevent Crime? Apply Women and Children

Peter Vaernet, aka the "Mad Viking", transformed a pocket park known for drugs and violence into a safe, active place by bringing lots of women and children into the park.
11 June 2010 - 6:00am
Boing Boing

Parks are "Volatile Places"

Peter Harnik of the Trust for Public Land spoke recently about the challenges facing urban parks, and how they can be catalysts for revitalization and change when done correctly.
10 June 2010 - 2:02pm
ASLA's The Dirt blog

Putting the Park in Parking Lots

Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute proposes renovating city parking lots into actual parks would go a long way to improving the air quality of cities.
8 June 2010 - 6:00am
AutoBlogGreen
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Parks, Playgrounds and Physical Activity

Do parks succeed in making people more active? What works and what doesn't when designing and maintaining a park? A recent study by Active Living Research pulls together all the available research. Tim Halbur talks with the man behind the study, Andrew J. Mowen.
27 May 2010 - 5:00am
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