parks

How Parks Can Make Communities More Sustainable and Resilient

Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open spaces have become essential green infrastructure with the potential to contribute to community resiliency and sustainability. To capitalize on this potential, the parks and recreation system planning process must evolve as well. This is a 90-minute educational session about how to work within your community to use parks to move the sustainability needle and generate multiple community co-benefits.

Parks: A Wise Infrastructure Investment

By Mami Hara, Catherine Nagel / On April 9th, 2018
It’s time to recognize the multiple benefits of parks and fund them as infrastructure if we want our cities to be successful and prepared for the future.

Parks for (All) the People

By Laurie Mazur / On November 13th, 2017
A new advocacy campaign aims to ensure that every American can live within a 10-minute walk of a high-quality park or green space

Bridging A Gap on the Bronx River

By Veronica Vanterpool, Joan Byron / On February 12th, 2017
A Changing Climate Means A Changing Society. The Island Press Urban Resilience Project, Supported By The Kresge Foundation And The JPB Foundation, Is Committed To A Greener, Fairer Future.​ This Post Was Originally Published On CoLab Radio. When the Bronx River Greenway was first proposed in 1999, David Shuffler was a teenager living in West Farms.

Canada is Looking Better and Better (The Regent Park Story)

By Alan Mallach / On April 13th, 2016
High-density public housing may seem like an idea whose time has come and gone, buried along with the ruins of notorious projects like St. Louis’ Pruitt-Igoe and Chicago’s Cabrini-Green. Since the 1990s, HUD’s Hope VI program has demolished hundreds of public housing projects, usually replacing them with lower-density developments that house far fewer people. But is the issue really about density?

Building Climate Resilience at the Water's Edge

By Rebecca Wodder / On March 30th, 2016
We live in challenging times. The shocks and stresses of global warming affect every community in one form or another. Rising seas and storm surges swamp coastal communities. Floods and droughts of biblical proportions are visited on city dwellers and farmers alike. Forest fires and landslides follow in the wake of dying trees and barren hillsides. Unfamiliar viruses travel northward with pests whose ranges expand with warmer temperatures
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Parks or People? Five Cities that are Choosing Both

By Gaelle Gourmelon / On March 2nd, 2016
The world’s expanding cities are in a delicate balancing act. If they do not embrace strategic, high-density development, urban areas will increasingly encroach on surrounding farmland and natural spaces.

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