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The Desire Paths of Brasilia
wikipedia The capital of Brazil, Brasilia is a planned city with parks and open spaces designed at the height of automotive thinking in the late 1950s. The city was laid out by Lucio Costa and the...
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Time for City Parks to Pull Their Weight
From Fitness Zones to the Medical Mile: How Urban Park Systems Can Best Promote Health and Wellness. We’ve written before about the need for urban parks to do more for public health. A new report by...
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Cities with Health Promoting Park Systems Provide Mixed Uses and Adequate...
An excerpt from The Trust for Public Land’s report From Fitness Zones to the Medical Mile: How Urban Park Systems Can Best Promote Health and Wellness. We wrote a preview of this report in an earlier...
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Spring Sprucing “America’s Front Yard”: Finalists Announced for National Mall...
East view of the Mall from the Washington Monument. Credit: Coleen Gentles Eighteen months ago, the National Park Service (NPS) in conjunction with the Trust for the National Mall, created the 2010...
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Cities Can Have Health Promoting Park Systems Through Beauty and Great Design
To promote physical activity and mental development, parks need great playgrounds. To make trails and walkways welcoming, parks need excellent horticulture. To lure tourists and other first-time...
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Clean Water, Green Parks: Stormwater Management in Heartland Park
Photo courtesy of Ryan Howell, Recreation Coordinator In the spirit of City Parks Alliance’s upcoming webinar, Stormwater Management: Partnerships and Best Practices, today’s focus on green...
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Whatever the Weather: A Guide to Resilient Design
We’ve been feeling the effects of climate change a lot lately—drought in California, record highs of up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit in Arizona, hurricanes and superstorms—to name just a few. Atmospheric...
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