Austin Parks Foundation Blog

Agreement on role of conservancy in Buffalo’s parks reached. (WNED) Bicycle Highways considered in the Year in Ideas. (NYT) The debate over Seattle Alaskan Way Viaduct… will a tunnel be built? (WSJ) Former NYC Parks Commissioner Paul Hoving passes away and is remembered by a former journalist. (City Room)

We just finished reading a new book about Baltimore’s first large public park, Druid Hill Park. Many may not have heard of this 745-acre greensward just north of the city’s downtown. In Druid Hill Park: the heart of historic Baltimore, authors Eden Unger Bowditch and Anne Draddy give great insight into how cities and their political [...]

With the Copenhagen summit taking place this week in Denmark, it’s a good time to highlight the merits of urban parks in combating global climate change. In fact, in a session this week there on reducing carbon through public transit, an official from Portland’s Tri-Met spoke of how cities need to be “places where people [...]