Urban Parks
Urban Parks Series
This blog series focuses on urban parks best practices. Why are parks important in our cities? What social, environmental and economic benefits do they bring to the neighborhoods they are located in? How do we learn from the best urban parks and scale, transfer and replicate those approaches to other cities and regions? How do we increase access to parks, green spaces, trails, bike paths, and public spaces for all our residents and not just the chosen few? These are some of the questions we aim to answer in the Urban Parks Blog Series.
How Green Infrastructure in Parks Can Lead to Community Empowerment
Green infrastructure stormwater management has been become a preferred alternative to traditional approaches to controlling stormwater in many urban communities. The many environmental and economic benefits such projects achieve are proving the value of green over...