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Sat Jul 4

• Good Parks Are Good for the Economy (Gotham Gazette, June 2009)

Fri Jul 3

• New York City, NYC Playgrounds Program: The Trust for Public Land: The Trust for Public Land is working to provide safe places to play within a ten-minute walk of every child in New York City.
• Creating & Retrofitting Play Environments: Best Practice Guidelines: he NatureGrounds program includes many resources that collectively support the development of naturalized playgrounds. The 48-page guidebook Creating & Retrofitting Play Environments: Best Practice Guidelines serves as an educational resource and training tool that highlights research-based design procedures for both parks and school grounds.
• Project for Public Spaces (PPS): nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public places that build communities.

Sat Jun 27

• BBC | Secret parks and forgotten ruins

Wed Jun 24

• Safari 7: 7 train nature

Mon Jun 22

• Near Future Laboratory » Urban Historical Infrastructure Layers: "Three curious examples of a kind of infrastructura l sedimentation, found in New York City and Brooklyn. The first one shows a broken portion of a (ugly) sign that had been placed over the original art deco style lettering on a behemoth post office. The next is a (ugly) fancy condominium module that has been plopped on top of an old light industrial / warehouse building in the now Tony / over-the-top section of Brooklyn?s ?DUMBO? (down underneath the manhattan bridge overpass) section. Finally, The Highline, a new urban park that was found within an old abandoned stretch of train track that sits one story above ground, along the westside of Manhattan, around Chelsea-ish.&q uot;
• Design Observer: Parks

Sun Jun 21

• New York City Department of Parks & Recreation

Fri Jun 19

• North East Trees: To restore nature's services in resource challenged communities, through a collaborative resource development, implementation , and stewardship process

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