Tag: Open Space

  • 10 Best Cities for Urban Forests

    Urban Forests seem like a contradiction in term. In our minds urban settlements and forests stand far apart at the opposite end of a spectrum.  So how can they be brought together in support of each other?  Apparently, as cities grow hotter and spew more carbon into the atmosphere the more trees a city needs, a forest…

  • Reimagining Vacant Space: Justin Moore receives ioby’s 2012 award

    ioby’s 2012 Heroes in Our Backyards: Reimagining Vacant Space from ioby on Vimeo. Justin Moore was awarded ioby’s 2012 the Heroes In Our Backyards award.  He was chosen for his work on behalf of a neighborhood gardening project Urban Patch in his home town, the Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhood of Indianapolis.  Every year, ioby awards project leaders that exemplify the ioby spirit of community activism.  In…

  • Paradise as a Garden – Al-Hambra, Spain

    In April of 2012, I was in Spain, driving through towns and cities.  It was a journey I was planning for some time, the list of places to see was long; from Toledo to Alcazar in Seville, from Cordoba to Al-Hambra, and from Valencia to the city of Gaudi, Barcelona.  However, Alhambra was one place…

  • Creative Little Garden – East Village, NY

    Recently I was in the East Village and stumbled upon this beautiful little garden, tucked away between two five story buildings on East 6th Street (530 East 6 Street).  This little slice of paradise is aptly named Creative Little Garden.  The garden is planted with ornamental trees and shrubs with several small alcoves where people were sitting…

  • The National Mall Design Competition

    The National Mall is a mile long stretch of open space between the Lincoln Memorial and the US Capital building in Washington DC.   The Mall is flanked by museums and other monuments and is the most popular tourist destination in the United States. More than 24 million people visited the Mall last year. The Trust for…

  • Beyond Zuccotti Park

      New York City has these strange beasts called Privately Owned Public Spaces (or POPS) which were put to some significant tests for the first time in recent history during the Occupy Wall Street protests. Many planners were watching the protests to see if privately owned spaces, like Zuccotti Park, could truly operate as public…