Playgrounds

Playgrounds Pop Up in New York

Neighborhoods in New York City have built temporary "pop-up" playgrounds in an effort to encourage more physical activity among children.
16 August 2011 - 5:00am
The New York Times

The New Way to Play

New playground designs are shaking up public parks around the world. So long, slides, hello interpretive playscapes.
12 July 2011 - 6:00am
Dwell

Absurd Safety in Playgrounds Causing Accidents

Planner Sharon Danks says that as playgrounds become less challenging due to concerns over liability, kids invent their own, far more dangerous uses for the equipment.
30 May 2011 - 11:00am
Grist

Citizens Create Temporary Park in Philadelphia

Community members in Philadelphia have taken over a languishing site and put it back into use as a temporary park space.
26 May 2011 - 8:00am
NewsWorks

Density is Good for Cities, But is it Healthy for Kids?

Yes, people walk around more, less obesity, etc. But a report shows that city kids are less frequently allowed outside to play for safety concerns.
24 May 2011 - 11:00am
New Geography

Saving Detroit One Playground at a Time

A group calling itself the "Detroit Mower Gang" has gone rogue on the city's poorly maintained playgrounds, attacking them with weed wackers and riding mowers to get them back into shape for the city's kids.
18 April 2011 - 5:00am
The Hub (Detroit Regional News)

A Precarious Playground

A new Parisian park would cause American parents to go apoplectic, with a precarious slopes and a lack of rubber bumpers. It is the latest incarnation of the "adventure playground, says Alexander Trevi of Pruned.
27 April 2010 - 8:00am
Pruned

New Playgrounds Coming to NYC

NYC's Dept. of Education has committed to building 70 new playgrounds in the five boroughs.
14 January 2010 - 9:00am
Crain's

Parents Banned from Playgrounds

The Watford Borough Council has voted that parents cannot play with their own children in local playgrounds because they haven't had a criminal background check.
29 October 2009 - 8:00am
The Telegraph U.K.

The Importance of the Informal Playground

Unstructured play is a mainstay of childhood. But dense urban areas offer fewer opportunities for free-form playtime, writes Alex Marshall. Kids have to take what they can get, and often it's not much more than an empty parking lot.
27 August 2009 - 6:00am
Regional Plan Association

100,000 Playgrounds

Advocacy group KaBOOM have launched a campaign to map play places across the U.S. called 100,000 Playspaces in 100 Days. The goal is to create a useful tool for planners for evaluating networks of parks and recreation.
28 April 2009 - 9:00am
Next American City

Making A 'Playborhood'

Mike Lanza, an entrepreneur in Palo Alto, CA, is using his front yard as a place for his friends and neighbors to gather and play. Julia Galef from the Project for Public Spaces brings us this story.
10 April 2009 - 3:27pm

Unused Open Spaces

Korean photographer Hosang Park's recent series exposes tiny, unknown 'parks' that are attached to housing developments around the world.
10 February 2009 - 9:00am
BLDBLOG

Getting Kids Off the Street- And Up In The Air

Want to get kids off the street? Build playgrounds on top of skyscrapers, like in this retro-future design from 1957's Mechanix Illustrated.
15 January 2009 - 6:00am
Modern Mechanix

The Interactive Playground

Architect David Rockwell has some new ideas about what makes a good public playground. With movable, buildable foam blocks, his experimental playground in Brooklyn gets kids actively and creatively involved in their play.
15 July 2008 - 2:00pm
The New York Times
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