parks, Tag

High up in the Andes is a beautiful and unusual shrubby grassland called the páramo. “In the páramo, you can let go of your negativity and invite in positivity,” said one of our tour guides as our group stood on a trail...

For many centuries, the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands was protected by a defensive wall and canal. But over time, the wall began to crumble. The area was then converted into a park that wrapped around the city center....

Wetlands are key to the environmental recovery plan of Fortaleza, Brazil. The new Rachel de Queiroz park occupies one of the city's flooded preservation areas by adopting the drainage system as a structural element. Green...

Recent research done by Lancaster University has found that solar parks could provide vital habitats for wildlife. Specifically, the researchers say that wildflowers grown beside solar panels could provide the perfect habitat...

Advanced Intelligent Construction Technology (AICT) has just announced the founding of a robotics-based intelligent construction technology company in the United States...

If you’re not familiar with the term, placemaking is an idea that is sliding into the central focus spot when it comes to urban planning. It’s a people-centered approach to planning the usage of public spaces and was...

Quintain Living is creating a 7-acre public park to improve access to green space for Londoners in the Wembley Park area. The group's £2.2 billion investment in Wembley Park includes a Build to Rent scheme that...

The southwestern Russian city of Saratov has announced the two winning designs in the Open International Competition for the Best Architectural and Urban Planning Concepts for the Integrated Development of Saratov's City...

Community gathering spaces for indoor and outdoor use are central to the idea of shared land. As such, parks should be structured to maximize these benefits, though sometimes this comes at the cost of the surrounding landscape....

Air pollution has become a major problem in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam, that was ranked the seventh capital city with the highest average annual PM 2.5 concentration by the 2019 World Air Report. In a bid to improve...

In a bid to bring more greenery to our cities, Milan-headquartered architecture practice Stefano Boeri Architetti has proposed SUPERVERDE, a series of scalable, modular soil blocks designed for greening urban spaces...

On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Great American Outdoors Act, which secures funding to protect many U.S. parks and recreation areas. Now all the bill needs is President Trump's signature.[...]

Reposted from The Cliff Mass Weather Blog Original title: Seattle Parks without Parking, Washington Beaches without Beachcombers Tuesday, May 12, 2020 If you want to drive to a major Seattle park, you will not be able to...

A recent National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) poll revealed that four in five adults (80 percent) look to their local parks and recreation areas for family-friendly, community-focused volunteer opportunities...

Laboratory for Vision Architecture (LAVA) and Australian design practice Aspect Studios have won an international competition to design the new Central Park for Ho Chi Minh City...