As part of a community visioning process, a coalition of local organizations have proposed an urban greenbelt encircling downtown Austin, connecting Waller Creek, Lady Bird Lake, and several other parks. The proposal identifies four priorities for the greenbelt: creating a thriving center, growing neighborhoods, increasing mobility, and establishing welcoming places.

As a part of their master plan, Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority has published research on what makes a good public space. Based on their findings, the government plans focus on rejuvenating existing spaces, involving the community in placemaking, and using design as a transformative tool.

In a new report, Active Parks, Healthy Cities, City Parks Alliance presents examples of how cities are improving park conditions. They highlight how neighborhood parks that are well designed, programmed, and marketed present an opportunity to address public health challenges. By leveraging creativity, new partnerships, and innovation, our parks can be places where all people choose to be more physically active.

Congratulations to Friends of the Underline! Construction has begun on the first phase of their much-anticipated project, the Underline, which will eventually extend from downtown Miami to Dadeland under the Metrorail’s elevated tracks. That initial segment, in the Brickell district, will be a half-mile long, with an anticipated opening date of May 2020.

The Architect’s Newspaper features an interview with New York City Parks and Recreation Commissioner Mitchell Silver to discuss New York’s Parks Without Borders initiative to make parks and open space more accessible.

The 10-mile linear park, a $120 million redevelopment of open space under a span of Metrorail tracks, will link the condos, coworking spaces, and tech offices of the booming Brickell neighborhood with South Miami, in a bid to be a catalyst for community, connection, and safer transit.

The park’s new president Kit Sawers says the deck park’s long-awaited expansion will complete the park. Jody Grant, the man who helped create this place—on a highway overpass, out of thin air—sees the planned two-story pavilion as an opportunity to continue to make the park a living place that grows with the city’s needs.

In one of the largest gifts of its kind ever, the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation donated $200 million to create new parks and recreational trails in Detroit, MI and Buffalo, New York.

80,000 square feet of concrete along the Hudson River should become a multipurpose and eco-friendly public space serving as a place for the community to gather and as an educational laboratory where visitors can learn about the Hudson River Estuary.

San Francisco’s Crissy Field—the natural, waterfront park that we know today was practically unrecognizable when it served as a U.S. Army airfield for much of the 20th century.