Archive for Parks
June 24, 2009 · Filed under EcoCities, Ecosystems, Health, Landscape, Parks, Pollution
In the 2007 Comprehensive Plan, the City of Charlottesville set for itself the ambitious goal of creating a 40% tree canopy. At least it seemed ambitious at the time. After performing an analysis of aerial photos this year, city officials realized that 46% of the area is actually already covered by trees. In response, a new Urban Forest Management Plan has been drafted that calls for yet more trees. City Council has reviewed the plan, and everyone who spoke wholeheartedly endorsed making this a reality.
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June 10, 2009 · Filed under Artificial Landscapes, Density, Diversity, Multi-Level Urbanism, Nature, Parks, Public Space, Urban Design
Standing on a newly renovated stretch of an elevated promenade that was once a railway line for delivering cattle — surrounded by advocates, elected officials and architects who made the transformation happen — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg cut a red ribbon on Monday morning to signify that the first phase of the High Line is finished and ready for strolling.
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May 28, 2009 · Filed under Industrial, Landscape, Nature, Parks, Safety
You come across them more and more in new housing districts: high-voltage parks. These remarkable, elongated strips of parkland, with high-voltage masts as their central features, often slice right through neighbourhoods. Leiden, Almere, Rotterdam and Dordrecht already boast such strips of land, while another fifty are planned around the country over the coming years. But how pleasant is it in a park beneath ominously crackling wires?
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February 4, 2009 · Filed under Landscape, Parks, Urban Design, Visualization, Waterfronts
One hundred years after its inception, the vision of Daniel Burnham has inspired two Chicago architects to create an eco-bridge they hope will be completed with the help of a 2016 Olympic bid.
Burnham “defined the character of Chicago as a place of visionary pragmatists,” said Paul O’Connor, director of communications and marketing for the Burnham Plan Centennial. “The inspiration and intimidation of Burnham and [his assistant Edward] Bennett” have encouraged later generations to do more and to do better, leading architects Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill to revive the plan 100 years later.
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