Archive for Recreation
October 20, 2009 · Filed under Artificial Landscapes, Landscape, Multi-Level Urbanism, Recreation, Tourism
So Chicago lost its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Rather than brood about what might have been or haggle over alternatives to the massive dose of money the city would have been given to stimulate its limping finances, it should immediately develop a bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Since the deadline is less than two weeks away and the bid committee may still be suffering from their Copenhagen hangovers, we’ll help them out.
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Popularity: 23% [?]
July 24, 2009 · Filed under Beauty, Diversity, Heritage, Landscape, Nature, Place making, Public Space, Recreation, Social Justice, Urban Design
While the Wall stood, the zone between East and West Berlin was a potentially deadly space. But since the end of the Cold War, it has mostly stood barren. Now a Dutch landscape architect wants to transform the former no man’s land into a series of secret gardens and recreational areas.
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Popularity: 44% [?]
July 2, 2009 · Filed under Landscape, Parks, Public Space, Real Estate, Recreation
By the time the first section of the High Line opened in June to wide acclaim, dozens of new buildings had already sprouted up around it, including a glass-curtained hotel that floats above the park and a series of residential towers designed by world-renowned architects. City officials have predicted that development sparked by reinventing the abandoned elevated rail line as a park will bring $4 billion in private investment and $900 million in revenues to the city over the next 30 years, the Times reported.
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Popularity: 28% [?]
March 12, 2009 · Filed under Public Life, Public Space, Recreation, Urban Agriculture
Urban Agriculture: East New York is a documentary video in five chapters that explains how East New York’s urban agriculture movement evolved. Each chapter is dedicated to one piece of a complicated process: a portrait of a veteran local farmer in her garden; a trip to the East New York farmer’s market; a look at asset mapping analysis by the Pratt Center; land transfers from HPD to Green Thumb; and the investment in the neighborhood’s youth made by agricultural organizers and experts.
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Popularity: 18% [?]
February 20, 2009 · Filed under Density, Families, Recreation, Social Justice, Suburbs
The poor are fleeing our cities, but life is not always greener in the suburbs, even when affordable housing comes with a two-car garage.
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Popularity: 14% [?]
February 2, 2009 · Filed under Big Box, Real Estate, Recreation, Shopping Malls, Suburbs
DEARLY beloved.
We are gathered here today, in the midst of economic calamity, to ask if we really should be gathered here today, in a funhouse of merchandise designed to send us deeper into debt.
Specifically, we are gathered in the Chapel of Love, sandwiched between a LensCrafters and a Bloomingdale’s and tucked into a relatively quiet corner of the vast prairie of retail and amusements that is the Mall of America.
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Popularity: 28% [?]
January 12, 2009 · Filed under Health, Recreation, Tourism
Work with what you got, they say. And in Winnipeg, they “got” ice. Acres of it.
That’s why, for the second year in a row, Winnipeg is breaking Guinness records and jabbing its mittened thumb in Ottawa’s eye by scraping out the world’s longest skating trail.
Just call it Ice War II.
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Popularity: 14% [?]
