An Old Train Line Transformed
06/14/2011[by Paris Schutz, WTTW.com -Chicago Tonight]
The Bloomingdale Trail is an ambitious project to turn this dilapidated elevated train line into a civic jewel for Chicago (includes video). read more »
In the News
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[by Paris Schutz, WTTW.com -Chicago Tonight]
'New Park Design in Los Angeles' exhibit dreams of a city turning back the clock
06/10/2011[Los Angeles Times]
We were warned. In 1930, in “Parks, Playgrounds and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region,” the Olmsted brothers and Harland Bartholomew urged the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce to set aside land and funds to create 70,000 acres of parkland running from the mountains to the Pacific. Considerable lengths of the “pleasureways” would trace natural rivers where parkland could double as flood control boundaries. read more »
Bloomingdale Trail design work gets under way
06/08/2011[City of Chicago]
Preliminary design for the Bloomingdale Trail project is under way. read more »
Student-Designed Playground Opens At PS/IS 116
06/07/2011[NY1.com]
Students, parents and teachers gathered at PS/IS 116 in Jamaica Tuesday to celebrate the opening of a new $1 million playground, which was designed by kids and includes a gazebo, basketball courts and an outdoor classroom. read more »
Funds to flow to park for land
05/24/2011[by Bob Downing , Akron Beacon Journal]
The Cuyahoga Valley National Park is ''in the money'' in terms of completing the sale of undeveloped land at Blossom Music Center. That's the way Bill Carroll of the Trust for Public Land described the good news from the National Park Service. read more »
A treat grows in Brooklyn: PS 181 students design their own playground
05/20/2011[by Ben Chapman, New York Daily News]
Students at Public School 181 in East Flatbush are in love with their new playground - because they designed it themselves. read more »
Trust For Public Land Acquires Devereux Property
05/19/2011[KEYT.com]
The Trust for Public Land has received an approval for $3 million from the California Coastal Conservancy to help buy 63 acres at the eastern gateway of the Gaviota Coast near the UCSB. read more »
East Lyme to buy land near Darrow Pond
05/19/2011[by Stephen Chupaska , The Day]
The town reached an agreement with the nonprofit Trust for Public Land Wednesday to work jointly to buy 301 acres of open space near Darrow Pond from Webster Bank for $4.15 million. read more »
Public Ballot Measures Unlock Billions of Dollars for Conservation Nationwide
05/19/2011[by Logan Yonavjak, World Resources Institute]
A new WRI report explores what makes public ballot measures successful and how they can help conserve forests in the U.S. South. read more »
Congaree NP expansion adds key tract
05/18/2011[by Joey Holleman, The State]
Congaree National Park will be one contiguous tract of land again soon, and public access to the south end of the nearly 26,500 acres could be on the horizon. read more »
Pyramid Mountain grows by 61 acres
05/13/2011[The Daily Record]
A 61-acre undeveloped parcel in the township that will expand access to Pyramid Mountain Natural Historic Area has been preserved. read more »
Holly Farm Park in Southwest Portland designated a 'Frontline Park'
05/13/2011[by James Mayer, The Oregonian]
Holly Farm Park in the West Portland Park neighborhood of Southwest Portland has been named a "Frontline Park” by the City Parks Alliance, a national urban park advocacy organization. read more »
Interrupting the eternal
05/06/2011[The Oregonian ]
We think of cemeteries as timeless places at a remove from life. Yet they aren't really untouched by trendiness. You can thank funeral fads, in fact, for a landmark purchase that the Portland City Council announced this week. The city is in the process of acquiring 146 acres from the historic River View Cemetery. read more »
From Empty Lot To Playground In E. Flatbush
05/03/2011[The Brooklyn eagle]
Last Wednesday, students at P.S. 181 celebrated a new $1 million community playground they helped to design. read more »
Coalition Revives Urban Park
05/01/2011[by Mary Silver, The Epoch Times]
The neighborhood near Atlanta University center is so closely associated with the Civil Rights movement that its street names evoke the era: Student Movement Street, SNNC, or Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Street. Paschals’, the restaurant where Martin Luther King and his friends planned and drank sweet tea is across the street read more »
