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Potential for Leftover Spaces to Become More Public Places
Allison Aried highlitehedCollected in cityparks's videos Feb 4, 2010 -
Video: Overview of Shrinking Cities
From the Shrinking Cities Project, there's a great video (without audio) that gives a spatial view of change in shrinking cities from Detroit to Manchester/Liverpool, UK to Leipzig and the Essen area in Germany. The simulation shows that these regions spreading out almost as much as they are shrinking. This seems particularly the case with Detroit and Manchester/Liverpool. But in the case of the latter, it appears that after years of attempting to rebuild the cities, there has been some infilling of abandCollected in cityparks's videos Dec 30, 2009 -
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Streetsblog New York City » Streetfilms: Park(ing) Day Double Feature
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Trash Compactors in Philadelphia
GOOD magazine takes us to Philadelphia to look at the city's new trash compactors.Collected in cityparks's videos Sep 2, 2009 -
Great Green Places: Dupont Circle
Everyone can name great public places, such as parks, squares, and outdoor markets found in cities across the country. But what makes these places work? Why do people seek them out and congregate there in large groups? And what makes some of public spaces “greener?" In an effort to provide a “decoder ring” to reveal what makes these places so successful, the National Building Museum presents a series of mini-documentaries that identify the specific elements that help make Great Green Places. By “greCollected in cityparks's videos Jul 22, 2009 -
Streetsblog Visits Broadways New Public Spaces
Mark Gorton takes us through the newly closed-to-car areas of Broadway in New York City.Collected in cityparks's videos Jul 21, 2009 -
Landfills to Parks: The Freshkills Story
Local New York public television station Thirteen has done a great video on the conversion of Fresh Kills landfill to Fresh Kills Park. Park Administrator Eloise Hirsch gives an overview of the park and an informative rundown of how a landfill is capped to become a park on top. One fact: methane gas captured from the waste decomposing beneath the park is captured and sold by the city, bringing in over $1 million in revenue per month.Collected in cityparks's videos Jun 3, 2009 -
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Video Library Home Page - The New York Times
The New York City Department of Transportation is undertaking an experiment to close parts of Broadway that traverse Times Square.Collected in cityparks's videos May 27, 2009 -
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A 9/11 Survivor Blossoms in the Bronx
An interesting story about a tree from the World Trade Center site in New York City, saved after 9/11 and brought back to life in one of the city's parks.Collected in cityparks's videos Apr 30, 2009 -
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Kids React to a New Playground in Queens
In the video, we see kids reacting to their new playground, at one of the largest public schools in the country in the Corona section of Queens, New York City. The schoolyard, part of TPL's went from a barren asphalt lot to a new playground/park open all day, and to the public during non-school hours. This playground was created in partnership with Mayor Bloomberg's PlaNYC initiative and is the fourth of 24 community parks that TPL is designing and building as part of this program. Located close to CitiCollected in cityparks's videos Apr 21, 2009
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