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Green Spaces: Denver's Answer to Urbanization's Challenge 🏙️➡️🌿 Discover how Denver is tackling the urban squeeze with innovative green spaces. Learn about the city's strategy to keep the community healthy and connected! Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AJPHN

Green Spaces: Denver's Answer to Urbanization's Challenge 🏙️➡️🌿 Discover how Denver is tackling the urban squeeze with innovative green spaces. Learn about the city's strategy to keep the community healthy and connected! Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AJPHN

🌳☘️ It’s Love Parks Week! Join us in celebrating Love Parks Week. Love Parks Week is organised by Keep Britain Tidy and highlights the crucial role green spaces play in enhancing the health and wellbeing of our communities. In London, these parks provide a peaceful escape from the hustle and bustle of city life.  Concept Culture collaborated with LDN Collective and Commonplace in 2020 on the #ParkPower campaign, featured in the London Festival of Architecture 2020. This initiative aimed to highlight the significance of parks and community during a defining moment in the pandemic.  Through a targeted social media campaign, we curated digital content that invited residents to share their aspirations for their local parks, resulting in over 8,000 unique visitors and 3,500 contributions. The LDN Collective created an E-Book with conclusions, recommendations and design proposals based on the feedback from the public. The aim was to help local authorities make the best use of their limited resources and developers create the most successful new green spaces. By reimagining the future of London’s parks as places to exercise, socialise, relax and enjoy in safety. Revisit the Park Power e-book - link in comments.  What's your favourite park and why? Share in the comments below.  📷: Our favourite parks (Unsplash) - Hampstead Heath, Clissold Park, Greenwich Park, Primrose Hill, and Hyde Park.  #builtenvironment #branding #storytelling #loveparks #londonparks

Parks play a crucial role in fostering community health and well-being by providing spaces for connection & recreation. This article explores the various benefits of parks, from promoting physical activity to enhancing environmental sustainability. Read the benefits here: https://lnkd.in/dbWjb5fb

Natural Spaces in Cities ++ [improving communities] Transforming urban environments by integrating more natural spaces can significantly enhance the quality of life for residents, attract young talent, and stimulate economic development. Here are several actionable strategies that cities in the USA can explore: *Convert underutilized asphalt areas or parking lots into parks or greenways. Use non-traditional spaces, such as alleys or rooftops, to create community parks. *Transform small, vacant lots or wide sidewalks into pocket parks with seating, greenery, and art installations. *Promote community gardens and urban farms, especially in underserved neighborhoods. Cities can support these initiatives with resources, including land access and funding. *Launch city-wide tree planting campaigns, especially on streets and public spaces. Create a maintenance plan for new trees. *Retrofit parking lots with permeable materials, planters, and greenery. Consider reducing space for vehicles and introducing mixed-use developments. *Cities with ample green spaces are attractive to young professionals and families, promoting a healthy lifestyle, leisure activities, and community engagement.

~THE HUMBLE NEIGHBORHOOD PARK~ These are not your grand city parks or parks that are seen as local destinations. These are not the parks you might think about when you consider city heritage and identity. But the humble neighborhood park is so precious and a network of such parks woven equitably through communities is the need. Many people (especially those with the flexibility and ability to whiz all over the city for leisure) don’t consider how significant the well-designed yet humble neighborhood park is. I often reference such parks in my workshops and talks with people and not uncommonly will hear the response ‘Oh that’s not a REAL park’. These are indeed not your sprawling, impressive and majestic urban parks but they are important all the same and in fact critical in the face of changing climate, hotter summers and considering inclusive access to green space for ALL urban inhabitants. If you spend any time in such a park and just take a moment to quietly observe the use of public space, you understand the great value of such space for local communities. Consider young children having access to a nice playground near their home. Consider parents and caregivers to young children, also looking to let off some energy and spend some time outdoors close to home. Consider disabled people who might not have the ability to travel halfway across the city for some time in a park. Consider elderly and retired people, many whom live very neighborhood-based lives and appreciate the opportunity for time in pleasant green and outdoor public space. But really consider everyone. Inclusive, accessible outdoor public spaces should be an imperative in 21st-century urban development (should have also been in the 20th century). With issues of urban heat in particular challenging cities across the world, the value and important role of the humble neighborhood park cannot be overstated. 📷 Reel: this past long holiday weekend I lost track of how many neighborhood parks we moved through and spent time in. At least 5 or 6. It was wonderful to see the diverse use of public space as well as different generations and inhabitants. #urbanheat #cityparks #publicspace #urbanism

🌳 Green spaces throughout communities promote healthier lifestyles and stronger bonds. This article has some great points and considerations regarding the important of green spaces and implementing them through rural and suburban communities. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/et78D_Vm

Catch Eli Dvorkin and I in amNY today, making the case that the time is *now* for the city to think outside the box with new ways to sustainably fund our parks and open space—their ongoing maintenance, and future creation. (And our Center for an Urban Future report has 20 ideas to do exactly that.) https://lnkd.in/eR8X7zJ5

Parks are incredibly important resources, not just for our green infrastructure and battle against climate change and biodiversity loss 🦋 They also hold immense societal value, providing opportunities to improve our mental and physical health. ✋ But, research conducted by Leeds University shows women are less likely to use our nation's parks, for a number of reasons, but one that stands out is due to a fear of safety. No one should have to feel unsafe in any situation, no less when trying to connect with nature 🐝 That's why the #GreenFlagAwards 🌳 scheme, managed by Keep Britain Tidy, is so important. They recognise the parks that are well maintained, and kept safe for people to enjoy. More about this year's winners can be found 👉 https://lnkd.in/e2nYF-SG 📣 We need to do more to keep our parks and green spaces, not only alive and thriving for nature, but also safe for ourselves 📣 #greenspaces #parks #safety #nature

Next #InsincerelyYoursEarth podcast guest and former NYC Department of Parks & Recreation Commissioner Mitchell Silver, FAICP, Hon. ASLA: "The key principles are to make a seamless public realm by rethinking the edges, entrances, and adjacent spaces of parks across the city. Open space should be open. Growing dense urban centers need vital public space for all races, genders, and ages across the board." Next podcast launches on May 13th 🚀 #cityplanning #inclusivity #gentrification #urbandevelopment #parks #equity #urbanplanning #climatechange #publicparks