Houston 2020: Investments in parks will start paying off
Extraordinary levels of public-private investment in parks, greenways and public spaces will continue to provide far-reaching benefits affecting the way people live, work, play and travel.
Extraordinary levels of public-private investment in parks, greenways and public spaces will continue to provide far-reaching benefits affecting the way people live, work, play and travel.
New Monuments for New Cities is a public art exhibition in which artists were asked to imagine new monuments. Their designs will travel to five cities next year, to be displayed in industrial reuse spaces, beginning in Buffalo Bayou in Houston in February, and ending on the High Line in New York in October.
It’s been over a year since Hurricane Harvey hit Houston—check out this video to learn about the work that went into Buffalo Bayou’s incredible recovery.
Buffalo Bayou Park is a strong model for Dallas’ Trinity Park—one that suggests that it’s possible to design a park that can withstand historic levels of flooding and quickly bounce back, just so long as that design is robust, respectful of local ecologies, and properly supported by a fund for maintenance.
An immersive art exhibition by Carlos Cruz-Diez will open this weekend in one of Buffalo Bayou Park’s most unique venues, the Cistern. Once an underground city reservoir, the cavernous structure was restored and repurposed for public use by Buffalo Bayou Partnership in 2016.
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.
In the weeks since Hurricane Harvey, hundreds of volunteers have worked to fully reopen Buffalo Bayou Park, which accumulated over 70,000 cubic yards of silt during the storm.
As Houston recovers from Hurricane Harvey, Buffalo Bayou Park and Bayou Greenways 2020 are prime examples of what public-private partnerships can accomplish.
Runners and bikers returning to Buffalo Bayou Park in the wake of Hurricane Harvey are finding a vastly different landscape—more desert than prairie, blanketed with untold tons of sandy sediment.
25 extraordinary developments from around the globe have been selected as finalists for the Urban Land Institute’s 2017 Global Awards for Excellence.