Cities, and those who live in them, are clamoring for more green space, and the benefits parks, trees, and recreation areas provide. The Trust for Public Land’s annual ParkScore report found ...

A council is seeking views on the design of a new "urban village" that is part of a project to regenerate car parks and ...

Since 1996, TKF has distributed grants to over 130 urban parks in the Baltimore-Washington area, as well as farther afield, and this is its final project. The hope is that TKF’s six place-based design ...

“This idea of bottom-up planning, which is so central to every urban design project today that happens in the public realm, this is something that Halprin really popularized and brought to the ...

Both Minneapolis and San Francisco spend $235 per person every year on parks. Accounting for cost-of-living differences still doesn’t compensate for our annual spending of only $35 per person.

As extreme heat becomes more common, urban dwellers must relinquish their bias against daytime darkness and embrace the ...

Gustav Engström ¹, Asa Gren ², Capturing the value of green space in urban parks in a sustainable urban planning and design context, Ecology and Society, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Jun 2017) ...

His knowledge of infectious diseases and the healing qualities of nature would guide his designs for major urban parks throughout the U.S., parks he deemed “the lungs of the city.” Olmsted’s design of ...

Parks could enhance urban life not as tranquil retreats but as venues of fun, activity and companionship. And a busy park, filled with active people, is often a safer park.

This should be one of the most attractive development opportunities on the Victorian coastline. Why is it so hard to develop ...