Tag: Open Space

  • EVENT: Greater and Greener 7/13/12-7/17/12

      This international conference on urban parkland is going on already, but there is still time to partake! Here is the full schedule. It goes through Tuesday and if you happen to have some time off, it looks like there will be plenty of tours of New York City Parks and there are several “tracks”…

  • Building a Common Ground: Integrating Community, Gardens and the Built Environment

    The American Community Gardening Association states that its vision is to have a sustainable community in every garden.  It is a vision that has been playing out across the landscape and in a range of contexts.  This post shares a couple of case studies of how this is being done in new building development projects…

  • The Rehabilitation of Prall’s Island

    Prall’s Island (left) from Saw Mill Creek. Factory in background is on the New Jersey side of the Kill Van Kull. The West Shore of Staten Island seems a world away from the New York City most of us inhabit every day. Factories, power lines, and tug boats are the only vertical relief from the…