America’s fourth largest city is built on an ancient river network that flooded catastrophically after Hurricane Harvey. With 400,000 homes in the watershed, achieving resilience is the Texan boom town’s greatest challenge.
These four strategies can help cities foster environmentally-friendly urban revitalization while lessening the effects of gentrification.
Scientists, in their own version of infrastructure reuse, want to employ the network of dormant cables beneath our streets to predict earthquakes and track environmental changes.
The Toronto City Council approved additional funds to help expand the Bentway further east. The new funds will bring the city’s total contribution to the multi-use public space project up to $24 million.
In their Fourth Regional Plan, the Regional Plan Association outlines steps local governments can take to engage with the public in a more inclusive way.
Miami’s Coral Gables City Commission voted to direct $15 million from new development impact fees towards construction of the linear park.
Pittsburgh’s $26.4 million park would restore the connection between the Hill and Downtown, areas that were divided by the construction of the interstate.
Los Angeles, city of freeways, is on the verge of a new mass-transit future.
Haven’t visited The 606 yet? Take a virtual tour of Chicago’s first elevated park.
Bayou Greenways 2020—led by Houston Parks Board President Beth White—aims to transform the city’s fragmented landscape into a 150-mile network of parks and trails.
