#urban-parks

#urban-parks

The $300 million freeway capping project includes a playground, splash pad, band shell, large lawn, and linear walkway that resurrects an erased section of a historic street. Joining the widely celebrated freeway-capping Klyde Warren Park, which opened its first phase over a stretch of a recessed downtown freeway in 2012, Halperin Park is a community-centric model for addressing the divisions wrought by highway building.

'Oh my gosh, you're a tree hugger. You're probably one of those tree huggers,' Brown recalled hearing from others. 'It was meant as a bad word.' Now, she said, the word brings 'pride.'

A strip of a former rail line through Southwest Berkeley will be transformed this year into the city's newest park, boasting community gardens, children's play areas and a dog park across four long-neglected blocks. An extensive environmental clean-up for the quarter-mile stretch of the old Santa Fe rail corridor between Blake and Ward streets is set to get underway this spring, Parks Director Scott Ferris told Berkeleyside.

Schjetnan and GDU have designed some of the most significant parks in Mexico, including Chapultepec Forest and Park, the second-largest city park in Latin America, known colloquially as Mexico's "Central Park." With a focus on equitable access to nature, the application of environmental knowledge, and the potential of postindustrial sites, GDU's work has expanded the notion of what parks can do in Mexico.

The flight from NYC to Berlin took eight hours. When I booked my ticket, I selected the cheapest non-stop option: a red-eye with Norse Airways, a budget airline I'd never heard of. I booked the lowest-tier ticket, economy light, for $88. There was also a $20 airport check-in fee. I couldn't believe it was possible to fly across the Atlantic for around $100.

Mount Tabor Park's trails scale an extinct cinder cone volcano and meander alongside three reservoirs that once supplied the city with drinking water. In a city besotted with farmers' markets, the Saturday PSU Farmers Market is the biggest, and the only one that operates year-round. The many color-coded rooms in Powell's City of Books including a rare book room filled with signed copies and first editions hold more than half a million volumes total.

Yunxi Botanical Garden represents a cornerstone initiative for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in Guangzhou, emphasizing integration within the city’s urban-park framework.

Paulo's Peak, part of Staten Island's Greenbelt, offers a serene escape with stunning views and extensive hiking trails, showcasing New York City's hidden natural beauty.