Parks

A new 8-acre park has opened on the waterfront of downtown Tampa, Florida, the first of three downtown projects opening downtown this year.

January 27, 2010 - St. Petersburg Times

Travel + Leisure has released its list of America's "fittest" cities.

January 13, 2010 - Travel + Leisure

Anthony Flint, recent author of a book about Jane Jacobs, talks to ASLA's The Dirt blog about her influence on urban design and landscape architecture.

January 13, 2010 - ASLA's The Dirt blog

Planners in Los Angeles are considering a plan to remove two lanes of a strip of downtown street to create parkspace for the formerly light-industrial area's growing populations.

January 13, 2010 - Los Angeles Times

A group of Southern California nudists is criticizing parks officials who buried a dead sea lion near their controversial stomping grounds -- a stinky development in the long battle between nudists and officials over the contested beach.

January 8, 2010 - The Orange County Register

Parks officials in San Francisco look to mimic New York City's approach to funding parks through public-private partnerships.

January 2, 2010 - San Francisco Chronicle

Parks and trails can be used to create low carbon cities.

December 13, 2009 - City Parks Blog

Parks officials in Austin, Texas are considering a plan that would allow cell phone companies to lease space within the city's parks where they could build cellular communication towers.

December 12, 2009 - Austin American-Statesman

Bilbao is known for the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum. But there's a living city behind that iconic architecture, and local officials are trying to prove it with a new public park.

December 7, 2009 - Inhabitat

The new Citygarden park in downtown St. Louis is seen by some locals as a sign of hope for the future of the city.

December 6, 2009 - Metropolis

New legislation looks to boost the federal government's investment in urban parks for the first time in eight years.

December 5, 2009 - Gotham Gazette

The Orange Country Great Park has received the official go-ahead, with a dedication of $65 million for the first phase of construction.

November 29, 2009 - The Architect's Newspaper

A new multiuse park in Dallas, the first of four of its kind, is giving the downtown community a reason to celebrate.

November 21, 2009 - Dallas Morning News

St. Louis' Citygarden Sculpture Park is already being compared to NYC's High Line for its success in revitalizing a previously unused parcel of land.

November 19, 2009 - Fast Company

One doctor has begun advising her patients to simply take a walk in the park to improve their overall health. And as she describes in this article, she's not alone.

November 18, 2009 - The Washington Post

Cities around the world are finding that turning industrial ruins into green public space is far more cost effective and fun than tearing them down.

November 11, 2009 - The Walrus

Without even a hint of sarcasm, the National Park Trust is planning to give an award to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for protection of public lands.

October 22, 2009 - Los Angeles Times

This piece from Urban Omnibus looks at a collaborative effort in New York City to get immigrant populations better engaged in the city's public parks.

October 18, 2009 - Urban Omnibus

U.S. cities added 5,000 new acres of parkland over the past year, according to a new study by the Trust for Public Land.

October 16, 2009 - Sustainable Cities Collective

Ken Smith won an international design competition to turn a 1,300 acre former military base in Orange County, CA into an urban park to rival Central Park in NY. His plan is ambitious, and could be sunk by politics and finances.

October 2, 2009 - The Los Angeles Times