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Greening the City: Urban Parks and Green Spaces
What urban parks and green spaces do for a city, the main types from pocket parks to large regional parks, and how they are planned, funded and kept up.
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Urban Greening and Parks
Parks, trees and green space as part of city renewal.
Green Spaces in the City: Designing for Sustainability
How designers plan sustainable green spaces that need less water, support wildlife and hold up under heavy use, with the trade-offs involved.
Greening the City: The Importance of Urban Forestry in Urban Renewal
How urban forestry works in renewal areas: planting, choosing species, maintenance and the shade and cooling street trees can provide, and its limits.
Greening the City: Urban Development Strategies for Sustainability
How a city can set greening targets, find room for greenery in dense areas and decide where to prioritize, with honest notes on costs and trade-offs.
Revitalizing Parks and Recreational Spaces: Urban Development Strategies
How cities site and renew sports fields, playgrounds and other recreational spaces, spread them fairly across neighborhoods and keep them in good repair.
Revitalizing Public Parks: Urban Development Strategies for Green Spaces
How to approach park renewal: assessing a tired park's condition and safety, deciding what to add or remove, and involving the people who use it.
Revitalizing Urban Parks and Green Spaces: A Guide to Successful Redevelopment
The stages of a large park redevelopment, from concept and design through construction, phasing and funding, with notes on common risks and delays.
Revitalizing Urban Parks: Strategies for Sustainability
How parks stay in good shape over the long run: stable maintenance funding, native planting, low-water landscaping and stewardship groups, with realistic limits.
The Benefits of Urban Biodiversity in Urban Renewal and Development
How habitat, native planting and wildlife corridors can be built into renewal sites, what urban biodiversity offers, and where it conflicts with intensive development.
The Benefits of Urban Parks: Health and Well-being
What research suggests about park access, physical activity and mental health, why causation is hard to prove, and how unequal access shapes who benefits.
Urban Development and the Revitalization of Public Parks
A step-by-step view of reviving a run-down park: assessment, safety, programming, upkeep and neighbor involvement, in a sequence cities can adapt.
Urban Renewal and the Revitalization of Public Parks: A Global Perspective
A general comparison of how parks are funded, managed and used in different kinds of cities, without specific park claims, and why context shapes what works.
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